Quickbooks Error Code Numbers -6190 -82
Intuit refuses to support QuickBooks on a Linux server in your computer network unless you spring for their $3000.00 Enterprise Solutions package. A Windows server is fine but if you run QuickBooks on Windows PCs while a Linux server holds all the QuickBooks data files you may get a QuickBooks error code -6190 -82. I fixed this problem on a client’s server, let me tell you how.
The Problem: All the users that used QuickBooks logged in to the server and had Admin-level access but only the user that owned the data file was able to access it. All others were given the infamous -6190 -82 error code.
Partial Solution #1: I used QuickBooks from a batch file that removed the “Read Only” file attribute.
Partial Solution #2: I changed the ownership setting of the all the QB Data files to that group.
The Solution: After trying many solutions that at best worked only temporarily, In noticed the file permissions for the .TLG file had changed on the server. This encouraged me to look for why they would change and how to stop it. After testing, changing, testing, changing and retesting, I have the complete solution to the problem.
1. create a new group for all QuickBooks users.
2. Make the group created in step #1 the owner of your .QBW and .TLG file with “Read and Write” permissions.
3. On each users computer (at least the ones who backup the QuickBooks file), set the program NOT to verify the backup data.
4. Viola. The problem has been solved.
Why do you need to do this? You can set the permissions on the .TLG file but if you still verify the backup data, QuickBooks it creates a new .TLG file with the same name. That causes the permissions to be reset. Backing up without verifying saves the file permissions and allows everyone to use the QuickBooks data files with a Linux server.
