sorry it's not broken.  I am current in windows 10 on all machines.  I just never tried to use the qm before and i made the mistake of reading the forums before i attempted to set it up which just caused a lot of confusion for me.  anyway the main thing i found was the build number.  it was stated many times that the build number has to be the same on all machines.  i had different builds and that was my problem.  as for permissions, Windows firewall asked me one time on initial launch of qm if i wanted to allow on public or private.  i only selected private.  im using 11.3.818 build.  thanks for input!