Using Intuit QuickBooks with the Novell Client for Windows

  • 7010102
  • 02-Feb-2012
  • 01-Feb-2013

Environment

Novell Client for Vista 1.0.0 File Access
Novell Client for Windows 2000/XP/2003 4.91 Support Pack 4 File Access
Intuit Quickbooks

Situation

"I use one machine, and one machine only, to access a Quickbooks database over Novell Client, and Quickbooks fails to open the database."

Problems accessing files is limited to opening files from within Quickbooks. All else is normal and working as expected.

When using QuickBooks, errors such as the following may be seen:

Can't open company file. Error Code (-6000, -301)

Can't open company file. Error Code (-6000, -106)

QuickBooks was unable to open the company file <name of file> on the host computer <computername>." Error (-6190,-77)

An error occurred when QickBooks tried to access the company file. Please try again. If the problem persists, contact Intuit Technical Support and porovide them with the following error codes: (-6000,-80)."

QuickBooks was unable to open the company file <name of file> on the host computer <computername>. Try opening the file with QuickBooks on the host computer or run the QuickBooks Database Server Manager on host computer and then try opening the file on your computer. If the problem persists, contact Intuit Technical Support and provide them with the following error codes: (-6190, -1005)

An error occurred when QuickBooks tried to access the company file.  Please try again.  If the problem persists, contact Intuit Technical Support and provide them with the following error codes: (-6000, -301).  Click the Details button for more information to provide Intuit Technical Support to help diagnose the error.  Bad Connection Handle Used  Internal database error *** ERROR *** Assertion failed: 100201 (11.0.1.2250)  Attempted to open file that is already in use. -- Transaction rolled back.


The Windows event log may include an entry such as:

Cannot open transaction log file -- Specified database file already in use.

Resolution

Fixed in Novell Client 2 SP3 for Windows or later.