QuickBooks Pro 2013 Firewall Issue

Posted on June 10, 2020 by timlyg

QuickBooks unable to open shared file on the network, giving error H202, H203, etc. or some other kinds of error like "the host computer is sharing but some how unable to access..."

Firewall is the issue.

On both host and client (not sure if necessary to do both, but I did both anyway):

Allow TCP ports: QuickBooks 2013: 8019, 56723, 55353-55357 for both inbound and outbound.

Details from a now defunct site:

As you may recall, there was a vulnerability found in Internet Explorer in many versions. This vulnerability was patched.

What we are seeing now is that in some cases, the patch and update to the Windows Firewall, is shutting off ports which are required for the QuickBooks Pro, Premier, and Enterprise editions to operate in Multi-user mode.

The issue can present itself with error  codes:

Error H101, H202, H303, or H505: when opening your company file

When you open a company file in multi-user mode, you see an error:

  • You're trying to work with a company file located on another computer, and this copy of QuickBooks can't reach the server on that computer. (H202)
  • You're trying to work with a company file located on another computer, and that computer needs additional installation and setup. (H101, H303, and H505)
  • It appears that the QuickBooks software on computer [server name] is set up to allow shared connections to the company file, but the QuickBooks software on your computer is unable to communicate with it. (H202)

We are finding that this can be the result of a set of firewall ports being closed in the Windows Firewall configuration.

There has been some success with manually creating an inbound and outbound rule to allow these ports .

Perform the following on each computer:

  1. Hover the mouse in the upper or lower right-hand corners and select Settings
  2. Click on Control Panel and choose Windows Firewall
  3. On the left, click on Advanced Settings
  4. On the left, right-click on Outbound Rules, and choose New Rule
  5. Choose Ports and click Next.
  6. Select TCP and in the specific local ports box, enter in the following ports:
    • QuickBooks 2014: 8019, 56724, 55358-55362
    • QuickBooks 2013: 8019, 56723, 55353-55357
    • QuickBooks 2012: 8019, 56722, 55348-55352
    • QuickBooks 2011: 8019, 56721, 55343-55347
    • QuickBooks 2010: 8019, 56720, 55338-55342
  7. Click Next and select Allow the Connection.
  8. Click Next to enter a name in the name field (for example, "QuickBooks ports" ) and click Finish.
  9. Repeat steps 1-7 for the Inbound Rules.
  10. Open QuickBooks in multi-user mode.

If you have a third party antivirus/firewall program, you may need to configure any other firewall or antivirus software. Note: For a temporary solution, you may disable the anti-virus/firewall program to identify it as a problem and make sure to re-enable it when you're done with the test. If the error persists, continue to step 3 (Ping the Server Computer).

For Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows Server 2008

Perform the following on all computers:

  1. Click the Start menu and enter firewall.
  2. Click on Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.
  3. On the left side, right-click on Outbound Rules, and choose New Rule. Note: It's a little tricky, you have to left-click Outbound Rules first to highlight it, then right-click on it.
  4. Choose Ports and click Next.
  5. Select TCP and in the specific local ports box, enter in the following ports:
    • QuickBooks 2014: 8019, 56724, 55358-55362
    • QuickBooks 2013: 8019, 56723, 55353-55357
    • QuickBooks 2012: 8019, 56722, 55348-55352
    • QuickBooks 2011: 8019, 56721, 55343-55347
    • QuickBooks 2010: 8019, 56720, 55338-55342
  6. Click Next and select Allow the Connection.
  7. Click Next to enter a name in the name field (for example, "QuickBooks ports" ) and click Finish.
  8. Repeat steps 1-7 for the Inbound Rules.
  9. Open QuickBooks in multi-user mode.

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Vocabulary: Prescient

Posted on June 8, 2020 by timlyg

Kathy’s Word of the Week 2020-06-08

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prescient

Pronunciation:
presh–uhnt

Definition:
Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

As used in a sentence:
The psychic’s predictions were uncannily prescient and ended up proving true a few weeks later.

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Vocab: Ephemera

Posted on May 26, 2020 by timlyg

Kathy’s Word of the Week 2020-05-26

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ephemera

Pronunciation:
ih-fem-er-uh

Definition:
something of no lasting significance

As used in a sentence:
Old newspaper clippings and other ephemera thought useless at the time are on display at the local museum.

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No Need to be Surprised on the changing Theological Stand of Those who Judge Not.

Posted on May 25, 2020 by timlyg

First of all, there is no such person who judges not. But why some thinks otherwise? Why the twisting of Matthew 7? The motive comes from the unwilling desire for the SELF to be holy and righteous before God. Why not? It's not practical enough. It's not right to be self-humbling.

One need not be surprised, especially when those who love to tell others "NOT TO JUDGE OTHERS" change their doctrine (e.g. from calling homosexuality a sin to not-sin like Obama). They may not now, but they will change their doctrines.

Because when they say that "Thou shalt not judge", they do not want to listen. They do not wish to be taught by others. They would say...Only God can teach them, not people. Or they may not say that. Because bottom line, they care about what's pragmatic - that which is good for them. Some would struggle a bit, trying to live as of God would want them to, but in the end, when some twisted preacher come along, showing that them "Did God actually say that?" as the serpent did, they would falter because the desire that the serpent offers is far too practical not to ignore. They just needed a permission from someone that seems to have the authority, such as someone with a title of a minister. Some would say, if the minister preached wrongly, it's not the listener's fault...heck, maybe it's not even the preacher's fault, but God's fault, if the listeners were to falter. God's fault in allow such title to be carried by his enemies. Those who knew better, they know that they have run into their own folly. Then there may be some grace of God left in them, for them to repent.

Of course, the other reason, the traditional reason, when one says "Do not judge". But being that by saying that, one has already judged. They say it out of pride.

Conclusion:

The "gods" of these, though they may still be shown God's grace and thus repent, are pride and pragmatism. Thus they MUST always change their theological stands to keep their "gods" happy. They would not allow a 30 year old man who surrounds himself with sinners teach them anything, if that man just a mere carpenter. No, that would not be pragmatic enough. If it were to be a lesson from God, they would need it to be very officially made, publicly proven and accepted, heck, they would call God to display Himself in a supernatural manner, in order for them to confirm a lesson from God. Otherwise...JUDGE NOT, or face crucifixion!

Lesson:

Easy - This type of people is easy to identify: They love the material world (pragmatism), they may claim the love of God, they may even believe it. They would seek after preachers that preaches both mammon and God, to get approval from "god" in their desire. What they would not do: They would not truly be able to be Gospel centered. They cannot truly show love in reach those who need the Gospel. They may support, but cannot do it themselves. Not because God calls not them as they may wish to claim, but because they DO NOT WANT this calling.

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Covid19 Dumb Reponses from the Fundamentalists

Posted on May 21, 2020 by timlyg

I have taught my wife how the fundamentalists aren't truly reformed. For they are anti-intellectuals. That's why B.B. Warfield disassociated himself from the F-group.

Now, I've heard some of them said of those refusing gathering (social) in churches. In the argument of saving lives, these fundamentalists, love to chant: "Why are you so afraid to die, everyone's going to die anyway." I thought to myself, funny why they wouldn't apply their own medicinal statement to themselves in the anti-abortion march - "Why protect babies? they are all going to die anyway one day." The idea is not to challenge their anti-abortionist march, but to ridicule their poor defense.

Yet another occasion, I chanced upon a Facebook posting, how an anti-intellectual was looking arguing with someone who defended how church services could temporarily be held online during this pandemic. The fundamentalist's response was: "But what if we don't have internet anymore?" I thought to myself: I never thought that the Drowning Man fable which I once despised (due to its often use in evangelism) could be so apt in responding to this fundamentalist: That when you die and ask God why didn't you allow me to worship you congregationally? God answers: I gave you the internet!

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Growing Tropical Fruits

Posted on May 21, 2020 by timlyg

If someone can grow jackfruit and durian in Ohio,

this is definitely a project worth pursuing!

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Bird House Project

Posted on May 16, 2020 by timlyg

The bird house was store bought (Walmart). It's the smallest kind (and only kind in store) I could find in Walmart, around June 2019.

I placed bird food in it. Hung around it. There was a mini bird that went in to eat it. I've seen sparrows snooping around inside as well. The squirrels were crazy about the food that I hung outside. It would appear that the squirrel could reach the hanging food. I thought about changing the pole from wood to PVC pipe.

That was when I was about to give up, because there was no nesting. I thought no birds that small would come through to nest in this neighborhood.

Boy was I wrong as I was surprised by this Morning's recordings. The recordings for this camera used to be scarce. But now...wow! I just need to identify this mini bird, same bird I saw the first time.

I shall keep a video journal of it and add them to my Youtube Playlist: Bird House:

My research tells me that these are House Wren.

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Record Audio from user and save to server

Posted on May 14, 2020 by timlyg

So I used mic-recorder-to-mp3 to do a web that records user's audio to mp3.

Then I tried OneDrive API, which was too complicated for me. I managed some progress but too little to be useful at this point. Perhaps next time, when I'm free.

It's easier to just have the blob buffer uploaded to the web server:

Great source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27220859/record-audio-from-user-and-save-to-server

This is a good project. I've saved it on nygc.edu/PlacementTest. I just need to back it up.

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The Logic of Security

Posted on May 12, 2020 by timlyg

Dealing with some "privileged information" (Positive Collusion) matter at work, I was reminded of some illogical behaviors I've seen in church. One in particular, a debate with a Chinese church member on privacy/security in digital information.

I won't ever deal much with the secular community, but I can and will heavily blow up the folly within the church.

Mr. J, I'll call him. Wanted a system so secure that it's impenetrable by intruder.

So I told J, I believe the level of security can be boundless. However, the more secure it is, the harder/inconvenient it is for the users. Or vice versa. There's no logical way to have both a high security while making it very convenient for the users. The goal is to seek a balance between the two to achieve an optimal solution.

However, Mr. J doesn't seem to understand. It's as if he's lost to this logic. Like a broken radio, this supposedly IT expert Vice President of Goldman Sachs kept going with desiring a high security system while getting stuck and speechless when it comes to the obstacles the users will be facing.

You either trust someone or you don't. There's no both trust and don't trust. You can set a level of trust. But you cannot fully trust and then fully distrust at the same time.

From time to time, I wondered what's wrong with these people's IQ. It's quite a mystery to me. I think it has to do with the way they grew up. What kind of friends, people they dealt with. Whether they've been caught doing something hush hush, or they've been betrayed by people they trusted. Then, they'll have to be stubborn enough to not change to be the better, but rather, they would blame it on others, blame it on the ideology of "TRUST", and have a philosophical seizure.

I think I've seen it. And punished it. But I don't want to keep doing this. A pastor apparently trusted me enough to even want to make me the successor as a pastor of her church. I despised her theology in the very beginning, but I tried to teach her indirectly. She didn't get it but just simply admire my indirect "teaching" (low IQ?). If it's low IQ, in this case, then it's a sin. Ignorance is sinful here. Not judging herself is sinful. She only see the faults in others, she couldn't see the plank in herself when I was making my indirect lessons for her. So she'll never learn. I dealt with her very fairly, which is why the trust, I supposed. But in the end, when I have to call what's sinful as sinful, that's when she would have to feel betrayed, I supposed. She's lost. Her illogical mentality caused her to look for unhealthy way out. Her sinfulness begs for a way to blame on others, anyone but herself. I wouldn't be surprised if she blames it on TRUST.

Hence, people like these, can't work well with others. That's the important conclusion I get. They are broken.

How to work with them? I don't know. Don't but too much expectation on them, for they have restricted themselves to be better.

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Drone Flying Rules

Posted on May 10, 2020 by timlyg

I've read plenty of drone pilot getting the crazy from the neighbors. Fortunately, nobody has ever come to me with a problem flying drone. I tried to be careful.

The general rules are:

  1. If you're not sure about the situation, then take off and land quick, preferably no one sees it. Don't show off.
  2. Try to fly very high, especially in residential areas, so that nobody will pick on the sound or sight of the drone.
  3. All NJ Parks are drone prohibited, so I do it when it's really really quiet around.
  4. I haven't done it in the ultra restricted NYC and also in Rome which is possibly also ultra restricted. But I think it's possible to get away with it. I'm no Cassie Neistat, but if I were to do it in NYC, I would really watch my surrounding, and fly time should be like a 3 minute thing. After that, quickly pack up and run! Try not to fly near army facilities such as the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier Museum...actually one might get away with it, but definitely not flying near FUNCTIONING government aircraft.
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