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Quickbooks errors -6000 and -83, and Client cannot communicate with database

Quickbooks failed, yet again, first thing today, April 29, 2014.  First it fails with the infamous -6000 and -83 (combined) error.

Then, when we try to start it again, QB comes back and says that it sees the database and the computer where the DB lives, and that the database is on a machine set up to share, but the client machine cannot communicate with the database machine.  No good reason why. (Oh .. and Yes, we have run the Quickbooks 'tools' - if you can call them that)

What a PAIN in the ASS!

I have pretty much determined that the issue is related the the FACT!!! that Quickbooks does not terminate, gracefully.  In fact, it does not terminate at all - even when you exit.  After exiting - an image can still be found in TaskManager.

The solution I have found is:

On the Client Machine:
. KILL QBW32.exe in TaskManager
. In Services, stop both  QBCFMonitorService and QBIDPService

On the Database Machine:
. KILL QBW32.exe in TaskManager (which is left over from yesterday!)
. In Services, stop both  QBCFMonitorService and QBIDPService
. In Services, start both  QBCFMonitorService and QBIDPService

On the Client machine:
. In Services, start both  QBCFMonitorService and QBIDPService
. Start Quickbooks and then log into the database

On the Databse Machine:
. Start Quickbooks and then log into the database

Amazing.  We have to go through this exercise almost every day.

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