Intuit doesn’t support QuickBooks on a Linux server in your computer network unless you buy their $3000.00 Enterprise Solutions package. A Windows server is fine but if you run QuickBooks on Windows PCs while a Linux file server holds the data files you may get a QuickBooks error code -6190 -82. This is how I fixed this problem on my client’s Linux server

The Problem: All the users that needed QuickBooks logged in to the server and had Admin access but only the user that owned the company’s data file was able to access it. All other QuickBooks users were given the -6190 -82 error code.

Partial Solution #1: I had them run QuickBooks from a batch file that removed the “Read Only” file attribute.

Partial Solution #2: On the server I changed the ownership setting of the QB Data files to that group.

The Final Solution: After  many partial solutions that at best worked only temporarily, I noticed on the server that the permissions for the .TLG file had changed. This sent me searching for what would change them and how to prevent it. After testing, changing, testing, changing and retesting, I finally have the complete solution to the problem.

1. Put all users who need QuickBooks access in 1 user group.

2. Make the group created in step #1 the owner of your .QBW and .TLG file with both “Read & Write”

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.

So what is the reason for this? You can set the permissions on the .TLG file to whatever you choose but if you still verify the backup data, QuickBooks it creates a new .TLG file with the same name. Which causes the permissions to be reset. So backing up without verifying saves the permissions and allows everyone to use the QuickBooks data files with a Linux server.