Quick Books 2010 Blocked
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Hi, i am just a new user to PFsense and i am trying to setup my firewall and everything was going fine till i tried to use my quick books, i tried some port forwarding and some rule setup but nothing seems to be working i was hoping that someone might have encountered this problem and know how to fix it.
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What are quick books?
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QuickBooks should only be making outgoing connections, so it should work with the default rules on pfSense. I don't think it takes incoming connections, so you shouldn't need any port forwards.
If it really is supposed to take incoming connections, there could be any number of things misconfigured that would cause problems, there isn't enough information to go on in what you have posted.
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quickbooks is a financial package for businesses.
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I've never had to change any defaults with QuickBooks or Quicken. It shouldn't need any incoming ports opened but may need outside internet access. As long as it can 'browse' the web, it should work, I think.
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Yeah you sure as heck don't want to open ports inbound to whatever is running Quickbooks. Outbound it should only need HTTP/HTTPS, for update purposes. May be other things if you're using some of the other services available in Quickbooks.
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I have a 3 user license on Quickbooks 10. 2 I use in house and 1 I want my accountant to use via remote connecting through openvpn (which is already set up). A 4th copy sits on a single purpose computer that only manages the quickbooks data base. My account is remote and needs to connect to the computer that hosts the Quickbooks database computer, thus she needs to get through my firewall to access Quickbooks.
Any ideas how to set up a rule(s) to do this? -
I have a 3 user license on Quickbooks 10. 2 I use in house and 1 I want my accountant to use via remote connecting through openvpn (which is already set up). A 4th copy sits on a single purpose computer that only manages the quickbooks data base. My account is remote and needs to connect to the computer that hosts the Quickbooks database computer, thus she needs to get through my firewall to access Quickbooks.
Any ideas how to set up a rule(s) to do this?The Ovpn tunnel already punches through the WAN firewall (so to speak), you need only add rules to allow any traffic from the Openvpn assigned subnet to your lan subnet and vice versa.
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You don't want to use the Quickbooks file direct over a VPN, it'll be WAY too slow, you could end up with data corruption issues and any number of other problems. I have a dedicated desktop VM for my company's Quickbooks and my bookkeeper has access via RDP. That's the only reasonable way performance-wise to do Quickbooks remotely.
