What is QuickBooks Error H202 and how to fix it?

[davidboon2813]

QuickBooks error code H202 occurs when QuickBooks Desktop is trying to establish a connection to the company file, but can’t communicate with the server due to one of the following reasons:

Incorrect hosting configuration settings.
The server computer firewall is blocking incoming and outgoing communication.
Conflict with DNS server.
QuickBooks is unable to get the IP address of the host system or server hosting the company file.
Some internal QuickBooks services like QuickBooksDBXX or QBCFMonitor aren’t running on the server computer.
The network data file (.ND) is corrupt or damaged.

Solution 1 – Test Network Connectivity
Ping your server from the workstation getting error H202 to check network connection.

Follow these steps to ping your server:

1. Type run into Windows search bar to open Run window.
2. In the Run window, type cmd into the search box, and click Enter.
3. Enter ping [servername] to ping the server name from your workstation, and press the Enter key.

Solution 2 – Use the QuickBooks File Doctor Tool
Run QuickBooks File Doctor Tool to resolve network issues that might be blocking multi-user connection to the server.

I hope both these methods will be useful to fix QuickBooks error H202.
David Boon