Comments on: QuickBooks Database Manager: Windows Firewall is Blocking Quickbooks

By: webluke

webluke — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:16:50 +0000

We were having multi-user mode errors, the Database Manager was failing on the network test so your post came up first in Bing. All my ports were open to a number of Quickbooks EXE’s and still failing. So I just deleted all the Quickbooks entries and ran the Scan again. It created new rules and now seems to work, Time will tell with this because we had it working after a restart 4 days ago now it was back. Quickbooks “Server” is a joke!

By: Merlin Halteman

Merlin Halteman — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 21:56:12 +0000

In reply to Corey.

Man I feel your frustration. QB can be such a nightmare some days. I may write a blog post about how to enable Windows Firewall logging and how to read the logs. However, until then this article should give you enough info to get by: https://www.howtogeek.com/220204/how-to-track-firewall-activity-with-the-windows-firewall-log/

On the server that was giving me this issues, I also have the QB Services running as the local system account. I don’t know if that helps or not. Good luck

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 15:14:48 +0000

So how do you look up to find out what ports are being blocked by the firewall? I just added those ports to the QBs rules and it still shows that either the firewall is blocking Quickbooks (Firewall On) or that the firewall exceptions are wrong (Firewall Off). So confusing. You would think that turning it off would stop the errors, but it doesn’t.