Troubleshooting - QRemote Initialization Error, Error: Listening failed. Please restart application

Problem Description 1:

QRemote Initialization Error,

QRemote Error: Listening failed. Please restart application

QRemote Closing in 15 Seconds.

Problem Description 2:

I'm following the tutorial here: http://qodbc.com/QODBCremote.htm to access QuickBooks remotely. However, When I launch QRemote, the application immediately closes. My QRemote is version 1.0.0.321. 

Solution:

There might be multiple instances of QRemoteServer.exe running or Machine would require Restart.

QRemote Server reports “Error: Listening failed. Please restart application” is usually because that there is already one QRemote Server running in the system.

Please open Windows Task Manager, go to “Processes” window. Select “Show processes from all users” option. Then find “QRemote Server.EXE” at the process list, and then terminate this process.

Note: In Win 8, Windows Server 2012 you can find QRemoteServer.exe details under "Details" tab:

Start Windows Task manager, Switch to Details,

After you make sure there is no “QRemote Server.EXE” running in the system, please start QRemote Server to see if the problem is still there.

If you are on a Terminal Service Machine/Remote Desktop enabled machine and have multiple users logged in.

QRemoteServer gets installs as a startup for all the users, and the 1st instance of QRemoteServer will be used to connect to QODBC DSN/QuickBooks.

In case you want to change this, you may use msconfig, remove QRemoteServer from Startup. Then manually add the user's startup folder who will be using the QRemote/QuickBooks.