QuickBooks Desktop of Intuit makes handling day-to-day business tasks easy for companies with its highly advanced user interface and features. However, despite being such an excellent bookkeeping application, QuickBooks Desktop is not safe from complex errors and technical glitches. One such error is QuickBooks error 6176.
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What is QuickBooks error 6176?
QuickBooks error 6176 crops up when a user tries turning on multi-user mode to host the company file for QuickBooks Desktop.
Why does a user encounter QuickBooks Desktop error 6176?
QuickBooks Desktop error 6176 mainly happens because of the wrong QuickBooks hosting settings. Though, other reasons can cause it as well, such as follows:
1. Data damage on the QuickBooks company file.
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What should be done to overcome QuickBooks error 6176?
Solution 1) Review the QuickBooks hosting settings on the server and the workstations
1. Run QuickBooks Desktop on any workstation where you get QuickBooks error 6176.
2. Click on the File menu on the command bar.
3. Select the option named ‘Utilities’ from the drop-down menu.
4. Click on the option named ‘Stop Hosting Multi-User Access.’ If there you find Host Multi-User Access is an option, don’t click on it.
5. Go through the above steps in the same sequence on all other workstations.
6. Run QuickBooks Desktop on the server computer.
7. Go to the File menu located on the command bar.
8. From the drop-down menu, select the option named ‘Utilities.’
9. Click on the option named ‘Host Multi-User Access.’ If there you find Stop Hosting Multi-User Access is an option, don’t click on it.
If you still get the error message, follow the second solution.
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Solution 2) Run QuickBooks File Doctor for fixing the company file
1. Close QuickBooks Desktop at first.
2. Download the brand-new version (1.5.0.0) of QuickBooks Tool Hub and save it carefully to the Windows Desktop.
3. Open the QuickBooksToolHub.exe file (the setup file you have downloaded above).
4. Go through the steps you see on-screen to install QuickBooks Tool Hub and accept the terms & conditions.
5. Open QuickBooks Tool Hub.
6. Select the option named ‘Company File Issues.’
7. Click on the Run QuickBooks File Doctor option afterward.
8. Select your company file from the drop-down inside QuickBooks File Doctor. If you don’t see it there, select the Browse and search option to search your computer for it.
9. Choose the option named ‘Check your file’ and then press the Continue button.
10. Enter the admin password of QuickBooks and select the Finish button afterward.
11. Open QuickBooks Desktop and check whether you get any error while turning on multi-user mode this time.
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Conclusion
Even after following the troubleshooting solutions explained above, if you fail to rectify QuickBooks error 6176, then the Firewall settings are probably not letting QuickBooks Desktop access the network. Hence, we recommend you configure the Firewall settings for QuickBooks and then try to enable the QuickBooks multi-user mode. For further assistance to troubleshoot this issue, you can talk to our QuickBooks professional team at +1-855-856-0042.
