I have followed the directions for connecting remotely to Quickbooks, but I cannot seem to establish a connection to my Quickbooks file unless this file is specifically opened already on the host PC.  I think I must be missing something.  I'm hoping there's a way around this.  I want to be able to conncet to this Quickbooks file regardless of whether or not this file is open on the Host PC.  Any ideas?

I'm having a hard time understanding which computer needs which setup.  Could you specify please?  I have 2 computers.

1. Host machine (the one running Quickbooks)

2. Remote machine

You mentioned that the QODBC Remote Connector on the remote computer must specify the full path of the company file, but I see nowhere on the Remote Connector that I can specify a path.  I am also not sure if the link you provided refers to the host computer or the remote computer.  Thank you so much for your help..

Joanna

Also - in Quickbooks, when assigning access rights to the FlexQuarters QODBC, the box that says "Allow this application to login automatically" is grayed out.  There is a check in the box but it it grayed out.  In the link you provided, the screen shots show the box enabled, but I cannot figure out how to enable this box on mine.  I am allowed to select a login from the dropdown, but am not allowed to check or uncheck the "Allow this application to login automatically" checkbox.

What could I be doing wrong?

I am still getting this error:

[1/2/2007 4:00:04 PM - 192.168.1.200] Error: 611: Automatic login access denied. If automatic login is required, the QuickBooks administrator may grant permission through the Integrated Application preferences.

Here is a screen shot of how the access rights are set up on my machine.

The trick is to configure unattended "auto-login" mode on the computer running QuickBooks for your company file first directly by using QODBC on the computer running QuickBooks as per: How do I setup QODBC to auto-login into QuickBooks and start it if it's not running?