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What is a floating host?

April 26, 2017floating host

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What is a floating host?

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If QuickBooks is not installed on the server, or if the hosting options are improperly set on the server and/or client computers, your installation may be using a floating host. With this configuration, the host of the QuickBooks data file will be the first client that opens the QuickBooks data file and (a) enters multi-user mode, or (b) selects the Start Hosting Multi-User Access option. Therefore, since the host of the data files could be different each day (depending on which computer opens the data file first), the setup is referred to as a floating host setup. The documentation also refers to this setup as the alternate multi-user setup. The proper setup I described in last months article is referred to as the Recommended Installation.