Trying to open a company file located on a remote system, but aren’t aware of the appropriate process to follow. Well, in that case you have landed at the right place. This segment will brief you with the entire process to open a company file located on a remote server successfully. All you need to do is to go through the segment carefully and implement the required steps on your system and software. This will surely help you in opening the company file located on a remote system without creating any sort of mess.

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Steps to open a company file located on remote system

In order to open the company file situated on remote system, the user is supposed to install the QuickBooks database manager on the remote system. In case you are QuickBooks regular user, then you must know about QuickBooks database server manager as it is a tool that enables you to configure the QuickBooks server for multi-user access. The steps to be performed herein are:

• Start with downloading and installing QuickBooks desktop on the main system on which you want to open the company file.
• Now, head to the QuickBooks file menu and click on switch to must-user mode.

• The next step is to head to the multi-user hosting setup required window and hit the yes tab.
• Also note that when you install QuickBooks desktop on the system and from the same time QBDBMgrN.exe service starts running in the background. This service is important even if QuickBooks desktop is not open.
• Click on ok on the multi-user setup information window.
• Add the essential users, to do this, and move to the company and choose the users, and hit next. Also set up users and roles and then select new.

Steps to locate the open company file

In order to locate the open company file, perform the below steps:

• Kick start the process by heading to the file menu, then click on open or restore company.

• The next step is to head to the open a company file and pick next and find the location of the company file.

• Furthermore, if the company file is saved in drive E, then look for the company files name in drive E.
• Also, select the company file with file extension .qbw from the list and hit the open tab.
• Last but not the least, insert the user-name and password.

Now that you have reached to the end of this segment, it's believed that you might be well versed with the process to successfully open a company file located on the remote system and would be able to perform the process with much ease. 

However, if you are still confused, or if you need any sort of expert assistance, then here we are to help you. Feel free to contact our QuickBooks enterprise technical support professionals at1-800-761-1787and get answers to all your queries immediately.

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