Hardware & Networking
Hardware & Networking
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So, I have this solution for the home inspection industry that was done in FMP5/6. We run it in kiosk mode on ruggedized tablet PCs running XP Tablet Edition. Upgraded (?) one of them to SP2 the other night and, lo and behold, Microsoft has completely changed the way they handle the Tablet Input Panel (popup keyboard, handwritting recognition, etc). Seems it now senses when the user clicks on a text entry field (supposedly in any application) and a little button pops up next to that field. The user clicks on the button and the TIP pops up. Simple. Elegant... except it doesn't work at all with FileMaker!! Anybody know why this might be? Does Filemaker not make …
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Hi there, this is my first post and I have developed a System with 20+ tables with many relationships. I have 15 clients FM 5.0 and a FM 5.5 Server. So far the performance (local Lan was perfect). We had to access the files through a VPN (W2K)over a 256k dsl connection. But just to open the 20+ files is taking 15 minutes, when the Lan time is less than 10 sec. I do not have a clue of what is wrong! The only thing I noticed is that any other use of the DSL connection the tranfer rates are much higher... when I am using only FM it goes really slow (1/10th of the transfer rate approx.) Any ideas?
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Hello All, I need some help in figuring this one out. I am running the FM server on W2K Server. I have 45 users accessing an average of 60 files and at any one given time (Mac and PC users..all OS's) The problem is this: I have one user (W9x) who is loses communication with the host daily at about 1-1:30 PM. This is the only user that has this problem. I do not think its machine or an OS related (upgraded both system, network card, OS and even changed her network line). There is one thing that could be related, I run a 12 noon backup, which doesn't take too long to run, but that's all that going on with the server at near that time (other than other users accessing …
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Hi Guys, Need some advice. I installed a 8 user FMP6 solution on a local area network which was based on the Mac platform. I now have the need to connect possibly another 5 users to the database, but I need to do this remotely. I have used Terminal services before in the past to connect users to a PC. My problem is the client doesn't want a PC on his network (he doens't want to learn yet anothe OS), os my question is does any software similar to TS exist on the Mac. Can someone point me in the right direction, with prices and any drawbacks of using remote software to connect 5 users to my db Thanking all in advance Cheers Jalz
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Hi, I have a client with a small office. Two PC's, Win XP Home, using TCP/IP for network protocol, running a Peer to Peer ennvironment. One PC is hosting multiuser files while the second has a mapped network drive to the host PC. When the guest attemps to open any of the multiuser files he gets the message: File is single user or the host could not be found on the network... All the files on the host computer are set to be shared over the network,and are checked "Multiuser" The correct network protocol is selected in Edit>Preferences>Application, He can go out to Windows Explorer and see the mapped network drive and open it, but can't open the files, Th…
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While presently using Calsnap to choose and enter a date in a filed, I'm looking for the avenue (script perhaps) to have the calendar pop up ON top of my layout page and NOT as a seperate page in itself. When I access the Calsnap, it pops up in a brand new window, taking up the entire screen. I'm sure there is a way to control the way the calendar appears but having difficulty. My need is for the layout page to remain on screen with the calendar pop-up showing somewhere on that layout. Your suggestion/solution would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi, We just get a new Firebox X hardware (firewall, router, DHCP, etc...). After the installation of the configuration software (Watchguard Managment Software) we reboot the server (Dell PowerEdge 1750 with Dual Xeon and Win 2003 Server) and FileMaker Server Service won't start. If we stop the Service for the Firebox X, no problem to restart FMServer 7 service... Any idea regarding this sewrvices conflict ? tks
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Good day, How does one import files in FMP 5 that is on a Windows XP platform over to a MAC platform. Tired importing but it did not work. Thanks, Joseph
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This is probably more a network problem than an FM problem but since FM keeps hanging, I need to resolve it. It isn't just our Host that is loading twice - just about everything is. I spent my day disconnecting mapped drives - each system had approx. 20 each. They were mapped to everyone elses systems - many folders and ALSO their c:. They were even mapped to everyone's CDs. After a fresh boot on one system (which took 10 minutes), I opened My Computer. It took 5 minutes to open. Then I [ctrl-alt-del] and yep ... TWO My Computers listed! We use Win2000 sp4 (I think). I'm not the network consultant. I began 'unsharing' all the shared folders. We upgraded …
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We are networked (not with Server) and won't be for another two weeks. Yes, I'm counting the days. We have Opener file which performs subscript to host file. For some reason, the opener - after asking for password to main file, displays nothing. I found out why ... in the menu Window > Show Window - the host file is listed. It was HIDDEN! Upon clicking it, the file opens fine but I want to fix this!!! I have searched the shortcuts, opener file and main files and can find nowhere that this default setting exists! I don't ever use hide window in any script. Can someone point me to where this setting is controlled? I double-checked our startup script in both …
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Hi all, I have encountered a funny little problem. I will first give you some background. I am currently in the process of moving our filemaker databases over from OS9 to OSX. Running filemaker pro 4.1 in classic mode on OSX panther works well sharing with other OS9 and OSX clients. I was even able to get it to share properly with windows machines. All sharing was happening through tcp/ip. The only thing wrong was that I was limited to 10 connections by regular OSX Panther. So I moved to OSX Panther Server. Now I have unlimited connections but I can no longer share with the windows computers. I need to be able to share with the windows computers but somethin…
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I am currently using FileMaker Pro 6 "Unlimited" on a Citrix Server (as clients to a separate FM 5.5 Server) and am looking at FM 7. Does anyone know how FileMaker allows the Citrix Server to use the single license (I am assuming that I have to purchase a volume license but don't know how the installation will allow me to have multiple users to access the Server from Citrix at the same time). Or, does the "volume" license take care of that by itself.
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I have a fm6 DB running on a eMac (with Server 5.5). I would like to enable access for our remote sites and employees working from home ( 6 - 7 users). We have a 512mb Broadband link and we are all Mac OS 9 to 10.3.5. Is Terminal Service a option and if so what will I need? Will I be able to access TS from a Mac? Any help will be much appreciated.
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We have a client who is going to be upgradint to Citrix. They are running a Win2000 platform now and are using FM 5.5 and 5 server. Where can I get a best practices paper or somthing. We have never delt with citrix and I want to be prepared. i didn't find a whole lot od info on FM's site (surprise, surprise) thanks in advance for your help
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Each time I launch FileMaker, my Mac starts to dial out via modem to my internet service provider. Each time, I click "CANCEL" and FileMaker continues to run just fine. I'm using FM Pro 6 stand-alone (no other users, no server) on a Mac G3 under OS 9.2. (OS 9 only because of other legacy apps that lack OS X drivers.) Question: What's making FileMaker keep trying to connect to the internet? Is this something in each file, or something in general preferences for FileMaker, or what? Problem: How can I stop it from doing that?
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Hi There I have 7 macs (3 x G4 and 4 x first blueberry iMacs) accessing a database (currently not using FM Server) and would like to consider using a wireless network (Airport?). The speeds I understand are 54mbs as opposed to 100mbs. As I have a tendency to design calculation-heavy databases I am concerned about slowness on the network. I would like to know if the database would run slower - and if there are methods (new hardware, software, etc) that would provide the same speed as a cable network. (on a side issue, anyone have any comment re the new Apple iMacs - the computer in the monitor ones?) Thanks!
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Hi Shortly after I started FileMaker, I can open a local host (File -> Open) But after a rew hours, i get disconnected and I can't open a local host again. If I restart the computer, I can, most of the time, select a local host. Any ideas? Thank you, and excuse my English
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I have written an accounting program which is used on Mac and Windows. When printing monthly accounts the Windows runtime version defaults to 'Records being browsed' which means the accounts don't print properly - no problems on the Mac version. The Windows computer has to have something printed and the Print dialogue set to 'Current record' so that the accounts print as they should when you then click on Monthly accounts. Can this be set to be the default? If the 'pre account printing' is not done lots of incorrect accounts are spewed out. Thanks for your help, Ian
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Migrated several files from v6 to v7 on OS X and the buttons are all acting screwy. Most just turn solid black. Ran the v2 updater and no improvement. I've even tried creating new buttons and get the same thing. This is just unusable. I did open the downloaded Business Tracker and the buttons there work fine and new buttons I create in that file work fine. This must have something to do with conversion but I cannot figure it out. Has anyone else experienced this?
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I've used Windows Terminal Services for other applications and would now like to use it for FileMaker. I've read the FileMaker white paper entitled "Running FileMaker Pro 6 on Windows 2000 Terminal Services." It doesn't look too promising: FileMaker Server cannot (or at least should not) be installed on the same computer as Windows Server/Terminal Server. And p. 6 of the white paper says "Terminal Services clients can access FileMaker Pro files designated as Single User files....Multi-User files...are not supported on Terminal Services Clients." Doesn't that make Terminal Services useless for FileMaker? Obviously I'd like to be able to host multi-user FileMaker file…
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what is the best way to publish a launcher file to each user on terminal services the launcher file is single user. I put it once in the all users folder but it would only allow the first user to access the second user got the error that it was in use. the only way I saw was to duplicate it on to each users desktop folder. Is there a quicker way? FileMaker Version: Dev 7 Platform: Mac OS X Panther
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Me again, still playing with remote access techniques for an .fp4 database served by FMS3. Based on my observations when using larger database files, it appears as though FMS doles out an entire file to a client, and then returns alterations to the server as they are made. Is this assumption correct? Does this behavior extend to subsequent FM versions? If so, it seems like a strong argument for pruning unneccessary content out of databases that might be served this way... Thanks, --Chris
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here is our setup. the host computer is running fmp 6, with windows xp. the guest computer is a laptop running fmp 5.5 with windows 2000. when i try to "file|open from remote" on the guest computer, the host window opens, but there are no files showing up. both applications are set to tcp/ip, and the files are all set to multi user. i have read thru all the posts regarding things close to this problem, and have tried all thosae that apply. i know the network is working, cos i have pinged the host computer successfully, and i can transfer files thru the shared window capability. i tried manually entering the ip address, and when i click "ok", …
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I'm a Win2000 Admin that's new at the FileMaker game. At our college we've used FMPro for some time on a Mac, but I'm the first to implement it on PC. The installation looked fine, and we copied a single file database over from our production system. Before we go live, I went to set up and test the built-in FM backup system, after which I was then going to backup the resulting file with our central backup system (Veritas BackupExec backing up over the network to tape). When I setup the backup in FM using the FM admin tool, it all looks fine. When I use "run now" to test it (or wait and look the next day at a scheduled backup) the "last run" line in the admin screen …
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On transferring my Windows-built solution to client's OSX G4, several layout problems occur: 1) Cursor is impossible to place precisely; eg if I try to correct the word "contaact" by placing the cursor after the second "a" and deleting it, I may well delete the letter "c" or some other letter. 2) Aligned text in fields looks terrible in layout mode (ie not aligned as formatted), not much better in print preview mode, but OK on paper. So I have to print everything to test alignment! Steve
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Any tips for using filemaker over a VPN? I have a database running in an office on Filemaker Server 5.5, that works fine on office based terminals (OSX). However, we've just set up a homeworker with a VPN and there are parts of the 'system' that run very slowly, mostly involving extended "replace" functions. Are there any "easy-fix"s out there or do I need to redesign the whole thing? Any advice gratefully received Matt
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About 1 out of 4 times both FileMaker Pro 7 and Developer 7 freeze when loading. I'm using Windows XP (SP1), with 2 GB RAM and plenty of page file space. The PC is a dual Xeon 3.06 GHz system. No other applications freeze on loading. I've run sfc.exe (system file checker), no problems. I've run Norton WinDoctor and System Mechanic, no problems. Has anyone else encountered this problem? My guess is that one or more of my system dlls is damaged, but none of my diagnostic programs can find it.
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I have a database running in FM6 on a windows XP machine. Other windows machines open this app well. When I try to open it on a Mac (Jaquar w/FM6)the mac says it's about to host the file, then that the file was not closed properly, then that the file is read only, then things really get unproductive. I thought this was supposed to be a cross platform deal, so any idea's what I'm doing wrong?
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I am running FM7 over a network in the office on OS 10.3.4. What do I need in order to access the host file from home? I need to be able to edit records as well as design layouts. Have been reading about VPN and VNC but really have no clue what those are and how they work. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi, FileMaker Pro 6 has been running on Windows XP Pro happily for more than an year. Some files were shared so other FileMaker users in the network were able to access shared files via TCP/IP protocol.(in Multi-user mode) Suddenly, the other network users stoped seeing these shared files. TCP/IP network is proved to be operational - I can ping all networked computers, I can browse the network and I can copy/move files between the computers. Even more, from that Windows XP workstation FileMaker "sees" all remote PCs sharing FileMaker files and using OpenRemote can open theirs shared files. Sharing works only one direction. I checked that: -IP addresses are…
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Hi, I've created a runtime solution with Dev6. The solution uses another application to download/process/export data from flash memory cards (runtime opens the application using "Open..." script command). The application opens a separate window on top of FM solution, from which the download process is managed. When the download process is done, I'd like the application run a script within the FM runtime (import data) - is this somehow possible with runtimes (v6)? Thanks in advance, Jari V.
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Hello, c:directory_1directory_2 I'm running FM6.0 on W2K & XP and I would like to write a script that opens the Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) in directory_2 if it exists, if it doesn't exist then open in directory_1. The name of directory_2 is contained in a field within FileMaker and directory_1 is always the same but directory_2 may or may not actually exist. Any ideas?
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When I open a file using the 'Open Remote' feature, it often crashes and gives me the following error: "Communication with the host was interrupted and could not be re-established (-3259)" I have the files hosted on a G5 Mac running OS 10.3.3 (Panther). The other computers in my department are G3's, G4's, and Window Machines (running Windows XP). They all have experienced this 'Open Remote' crash. How do I solve this problem and stop the -3259 error? Thanks for any help you are able to give. Version: v6.x Platform: Mac OS X Panther
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I want to open a pasword protected file from the Windows command line. I can get as far as the password prompt and then I'm stuck. How do I pass this parameter in a batch file? Here's my syntax: "D:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker Pro 6FileMaker Pro.exe" "c:Database FolderDatabase.fp5" What do I want next?
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I HAVE A TWO MACHINE P2P NETWORK IN MY OFFICE. A NEW XP PRO MACHINE AND A MAC OS 10.3.3. THE PC HAS A FILEMAKER PRO 6 SOLUTION LOADED ON IT AND ACTS AS HOST TO THE OTHER MACHINE. THE SYSTEM WORKED FINE WITH MY OLD PC, WHICH WAS RUNNING 2000. BUT I JUST PUT IN THE NEW MACHINE WITH XP PRO, AND NOW I CAN'T CONNECT TO THE XP PRO MACHINE FROM THE CLIENT (IT DOESN'T APPEAR AUTOMATICALLY ON THE LIST OF HOSTS, AND IT DOESN'T SEE IT WHEN I TYPE IN THE IP ADDRESS EITHER) THE FILEMAKER PREFERENCES ARE ALL SET UP THE SAME AS THEY WERE WITH THE 2000 MACHINE. IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED TO ME THAT XP PRO WILL NOT LET FILEMAKER FUNCTION AS A HOST AND THAT I NEED TO REBUILD T…
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I am trying to host a filemaker file using webcompanion but when I type my IP on my browser I get the screen for my adsl modem configuration. How do I get my requests trough. thanks Paulo Vivacqua
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I'm preparing to buy hardware for a small doctor's office (5-10 computers). Is scsi absolutly necessary for the server. I been told by some people to consider a serial ata drive??? They are using is Filemaker 6.0. Can XP home be used to save a few bucks? Thanks for any help.
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When I go to use the print command again after sending a fax using Panther's fax function it says there is no printer selected, and I must again select my printer. What is really weird is if I Cancel out of the print dialog box and go to print again, my printer selection is back! What's up with that?? Peleka
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Anyone know how I can run FileMaker as a service on Windows NT / IIS 4. I also want FileMaker to open a startup script for my dB's on boot. Is this possible? Cheers Jim
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Hello wizards, I have used FM5 on my Korean W-XP operation with no problem at all. Unfortunately, I am unable to install FM7 on my machine. At the beginning when the installshield wizard is preparing for installation, it stops and gives an error message saying "the path to (meanless name) contains invalid character" and rolls back. I dont even get to a step where to customize the file path. According to a technical staff at filemaker, version 7 does not yet support Korean language. But, he mentioned a few ways to get around (or trick the system) and avoid the character problem. Can any of you help me how I can do it? Thanks for your consideration! Y i…
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I've got 8 desktops in my network. We use these machines for data entry and have switched to D-Link G510 cards and a 524 router. 2 systems are still wired and sharing but the wireless 6 come up with an empty host box. All systems are going through the 524 router. The host box is one of the 2 wired systems and the db's all have multi user checked and are TCP/IP Any ideas....... Greg
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I've been having a sharing problem that I cannot seem to get resolved. Even though the files in question are shared as multi-user by TCP/IP, we always get the message "file.fp5 is currently in use and could not be opened." The file is a single-user, or the host could not be found on the network. This happens when one user has the file(s) open. Is there a way to have more than one user on a file at the same time? We are using Microsoft Windows network. One computer is running XP with FMP ver 5.0v3, and the other computer is running Windows 2000 with FMP 6.0 v4. Version: v6.x Platform: Windows 2000
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I just moved to a new office and am using a FM5.5 database which networked worked fine over my old wireless network. However, now and I am having trouble seeing the FM 5.5 database when I click on 'HOSTS' or enter the Specific IP on the shared computer over the wireless network. (What is strange is that we also have a FM7 solution that we can share fine? Even when I shut down FM7 we still can't see the FM 5.5 solution...oh well) At this point, I am looking for a quick fix so that we can get through our big project this weekend. I would like to just plug the two computers into eachother (using a crossover Ethernet cable) and thus share the solution off the network.…
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Sad to say I'm stuck on (what I thought was) an easy one. I have one fmp file developed in 5.5, Windows xp, that I need to send to people running mac os 9 and x for use in single user mode, not served. What do I need to do so the mac people can open the file? Thanks!
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Is there any advice out there that can give me some direction about using FileMaker 6 with the Mac OS 9.x environment and GoLive 6? I work for a newspaper which would like to create a database for multiple newspapers to archive past editorial copy in Word. Any advice on how FileMaker would perform for this task? The Web sites are hosted on a Windows 2000 server at CrystalTech.com
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I am in desparate trouble. I have a nine file data base that tracks donations and participant activities for a non-prof that helps cancer patients. It has been running on FMP 5.5. This data base runs on their Windows machines, while I have been updating it at home on my Mac (OS 10.3.3, G4 Dual, 1.5GB RAM). This has has worked fine until today. One file generates donation acknowledgement letters. Today, when I opened it and entered this eek's donations, The formatting on on all of my letters had changed as follows: Dates that used to display as May 22, 2004 now show up as 5/22/2004 Gift amounts that used to display as $500.00 now show up as 500 ZIP codes…
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Hi all, Just ran the Software update to get OSX10.3.4. Now Classic is slow as hell, which make FM5.5 difficult to work with, either in Layout mode or Browse Mode. Anyone experiencing this behaviour ?
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FM 6.0v4, 10.3.3. On occasion I'll see glitches in the UI in FileMaker. The rest of my apps run normally. In Define Fields, when I duplicate a field, modify the name, and click Save, the Options button will sometimes remain inactive (dim). Double-clicking the field opens it. Today I was doing script copying & modifying, with a lot of changing the field in Set Fields. One time after I clicked OK in the fields list dialog, it redrew with content from the layout before it closed... I immediately quit FM, backed up, recovered the data to be sure, all was OK. I've deleted all my FileMaker prefs just to make sure, but the glitches still appear. …
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Two machines running os9. One is hosting 3 databases, the other is accessing these dbs. They were created on the second machine. In the creation process this never happened, but now when I open the dbs remotely one will open ("viewing as guest"), the relationships in it cause another to open (still fine), it happens again (still fine), and then when you click on either of the first two they open dbs 2 and 3 again. So what I have is multiple copies (usually it stops at two), of the same db open. Problematic. Any ideas on why this is? Also on the same topic, why do they stop at two?
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Dear all, I am having some issues getting two offices connected to a FileMaker Server. We have our FileMaker Server running on Win2K Pro in New York. All NY FMP5/W2KPro clients can connect to the box. We want to allow the people in the DC office to access the database. Both offices have T1's. When I take my W2KPro laptop to DC, I can open the database in NY with no problems, aside from some latency. But none of the DC WinXPPro machines can open the NY database. They cannot see the NY server in hosts when I put in the IP Address of the NY FM Server. What's interesting is that when I open a command window and type netstat, it sees no open connections. For th…
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I have an issue with a W2KPro machine hosting a file and not allowing an XPPro machine to open as guest, BUT the XPPro machine can HOST the file REMOTELY, and then the W2K box (where the file is Local) can open as GUEST. Seems backwards. WHY won't it work the other way?
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I've been asked by a company to develop a FMPro solution for them. They have two offices - one in London and one in Glasgow connected by a VPN. I don't know a great deal about their set up and have never had to work with FMPro when some of the users are off site. I've worked with the server version before and run it across a variety of platforms. What do I need to establish to make sure those in Glasgow can access the live databases down in London? If I install filemaker server on the server in the London office and individual licenses on each machine, will those in Glasgow be able to access the system? Thanks nicole
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Regarding Filemaker Pro 6v4 on Citrix Metraframe XP: We have about 30 users running Filemaker Pro on 2 different Metaframe XP servers (dual processor) with Filemaker Server hosting our databases. In certain situations, the clients will use up 100% of both CPU's on both servers for 15 to 20 minutes. It appears that every copy of filemaker on each server tries to consume as much processor time as possible. It also appears that a single user initiates the chain of events that cause this by performing an action on the database such as a sort or a find (although we are not sure which action it typically is). The filemaker server does not appear very …
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Uisng FMP over Citrix. The problem, the users go to print and the only printers available are ones that are set up on the Citrix box... Is this the only option? - Or can the users access their local printers? I've read the couple of FMP articles on Citrix and FMP, but not a peep about printing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bruce J Kansas City
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Hi Folks, I'm posting this in the Windows section because I think this problem may be more OS-related than FM-related. The reason I say this is because I've successfully reproduced the problem with both FM6 and FM7 on both Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000. Here's what happens: When I open Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC), none of the FileMaker ODBC drivers are displayed. Not for User, not for System, and not for File. Nada. This is what it looks like: Yeah, I've activated the Local and Remote Data Access plug-in's in FM, and I've set my database sharing privileges to Multi-User. I've even completely uninstalled FileMake…
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Hello everyone. This is my first post/thread. I actually signed up at FileMaker Dev Con last year. I'm beginning to get into FileMaker a little more, and hope to do more development work. I've reached a few conclusions: 1) I am beginning to need a laptop 2) I could do with a Mac as I want to develop more FM solutions for clients. Currently have no Mac machines, so I can't test solutions intended for the Mac environment. Makes sence to get a Mac laptop I think. I am planning to go solely for FM 7, since I have no major projects on the go and no major FM 6 solutions to support. AFAIK FM 7 does not run on OS 9, so I'm looking at OS X only, am I rig…
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I work on a website that links to a Mac at my office for 2 FM databases. Yesterday that Mac broke down. We removed the hard drive and made it an external drive on a new Mac. We attempted to re-establish the connection between the website and the FM files by renaming the new Mac's IP address with the one from the old Mac--so that the link from the website: http://206.20...etc, theoretically would still work. All our TCP/IP settings, and preferences in Filemaker appear to be correct, yet we cannot fix this thing. When we turn on web sharing we can see the directory of files in the web browser, so we definitely are reaching the new Mac over the web, but we just can't…
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Hi! I have FMP Unlimited 6.0v4 running Web Companion 6.0v3 on a Mac XServe 2x1.33 with 2GB RAM/4x180GB drives (with OSX Server 10.3.3). There are eight databases running off an iMac (512MB/20GB) with FMP Server 5.5v4. The two major databases have 400,000 and 135,000 records each and have three related fields. I'm running FMP Connector with Apache on the XServe so most of the web load has been taken off of the Web Companion. The problem is that I get (seemingly) random "beach ball of death" on FMP Unlimited. The database system works fine for hours but then hangs and I have to kill FMP Unlimited and then relaunch it. None of the system or application logs i…
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i thought i successufully posted this, but I cannot find it. i apologize. we have an FMKPR server. we switched isps and moved. have cable cisco router. was told my isp to buy second router/switch to hook up office computers. (long story - i really don't think we need it.) i can get internet access while hooked into switch. (8 port) but i cannot connect to flmkr server. need to access the flmkpr server. what am i doing wrong? if i go to the server in port 1 of the switch, i can access other computer. but when i go to another computer to access filemaker db, it cannot find the server. please help. FileMaker Version: 4 Platform: Mac OS 9
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This problem is frustrating me probably because I'm not a networking expert, here goes with the explaination. My office has 3 macs running Mac OS X . 1 machine has a bunch of FM files set to multi-user, the other two machines pickup these files using the open> hosts command. Each machine has a fixed IP and has the same subnet mask. The problem is that the file host machine is not left on all the time, being put to sleep overnight, as are the "client" machines. On occasions the client machines are unable to get the files (blank host window) the only way to get them back on line is to restart FM on the host machine. Has anyone any suggestions as to how to get around this…
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Using Macs 10.2.8 with ADSL router connected to 2 hubs/switches. One computer (iMac G4) acts as host to 2 other FM v6 users. All cables ethernet and switches/hubs 100Mb. Throughout the day, email/internet access will drop out and in order to restore connection, often need to reset modem and/or router which causes hosting problems which can usually only be fixed by restarting everything! Also have other connection problems (not seemingly connected to internet probs) and client cannot find Host, even though icon available over network. Don
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Anything to Dial Phone in Mac Os X? It wasn't possible in FMP 6. Now, It's still impossible in FMP 7 Nobody made up something? Unbelievable !! FileMaker Version: 6 Platform: Mac OS X Panther
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Hello all, I wasn't very skillful in doing my search to see if this has already been addressed, so my apologies if I'm repeating old information. I'm currently running FM 5.5v2 on OS9 and I'm looking at upgrading to Panther pretty soon. I've been told that my current version of FM won't function on the new OS, but I haven't been able to find any independent confirmation of that. Before I go to the expense of upgrading, can anyone tell me if they've successfully run 5.5 on Panther? Thanks so much! Tiger
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Hi, we are hosting about 25 databases on a Windows 2000 pro machine with 60 users. We have mostly Windows 2000 machines with a few 98 machines. We are all connected via network, with switches and no hubs. We have one user who keeps on being kicked out of Filemaker with error -20. All the network cables have been tested from the machine up to the switch and there is no fault. She is running all the latest patches and she is locked out of all databases not just one. I have checked the network settings on the card so the power management does not shut down the machine or put it to sleep. She is still logged on the network and can mail and browse. If anyone has…
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I was wondering if there was a FM DB for the apparel & Merchandise industry. I work in a clothing company that produces their own clothing and has, for their DB, this program called "TAPS" running in DOSS!!! It sucks, and I want the company to move to FM pro. Are there any example to show them? any pluggins? Thank you in advance, cheers Mitchelle Platform: Windows 2000
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I run FMP 5.5 on a TiBook with Panther 10.3.3 and I use a Microsoft optical two-button mouse with wheel. Unfortunately, all the usability of the wheel is thrown to the winds in my case: it just doesn't do anything. In XP I can scroll through records, in card or list view, scroll to the bottom or top of very long scripts, or the Define Fields table. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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I would like po place a FP7 file on a linux webserver and have users access it remotely. Is this possible? If not how can I have a file on a remote server so that authorizesd users can access it? Version: v7.x Platform: Mac OS X Panther
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here's the basics. we have the host machine, runng fmp 5.5 on xp. we have a laptop running fmp 5.5 on windows 2000. our solution consists of about 8 files, linked thru various relationships. i'm not sure if this matters, but they are of modest size, the largest of the files currently has around 2000 records in it, with about 200-250 per month added. i've just begun to learn about how to network these two together, and from my understanding, i don't want to use the shared folders to have mult-user access to the files. this apparently just seems to either make it not possible to open the file from the 2nd to open the file, or it allows the two computers to a…
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My customer has been running FMP V3 under Citrix for a few years. Although this was not a supported combo, the performance was reasonable. We did have initial problems but the then H/W supplier managed to give everyone their own copy of FMP.exe. It worked. Recently, I talked hem into upgrading to FMP V6. What a shambles! I won't describe all the problems but just recently things have become almost impossible. (Basically, losing files and using 100% CPU for up to 30 mins doing nothing.) Unfortunately, I do not know just what the H/W guy did with V3. FMP told me that we had to use Server with Citrix, even though I cannot find this documented anywhere. So my cu…
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I was wondering if anyone else has run across this. I am hosting FM 5.5 unlimited on a OSX 10.1.2 machine. Every few days, for no apparent reason and with no warning or error messages, FM on the machine in question will just quite. LR
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We have two Macs on a network and a multi-file FM solution. When opening files remotely (as a guest of the Host computer), some files are opening quickly, showing the IP address of the Host and others are very slow to open, showing the Host computer name. I can't tell why some are opening differently than others. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I am currently hosting a FMP 6.04 database system on a G4 933Mhz in OS 9.2.2 (Hardware RAID), which serves a maximum of 3 mac clients. I am also hosting the image server on this machine so file sharing is on and performance is slow. I have read the FMP Server Best Practices pdf and understand that image serving and database serving are best done on separate machines. Now I have the opportunity to upgrade the hardware and I am thinking about migrating to a G5 machine running panther with a firewire 800 RAID storing the databases (and/or images). What I would like to know is if I split the database serving and image serving between a G5 box running panther and the same…
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Now that the Sony Clie TH55 Wifi enabled PDA is available in the market can it be used to access a FM DB served by Web Companion on a desktop using its Netfront 3.1 Internet Browser? Version: v6.x Platform: Windows XP
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I cannot see most of the data in any of my files. I am suspecting a fonts issue. (I recently have been cleaning out fonts from my System folder). When I create a new file, the data does not show up in the fields unless I format the data in a field with a different font. Not all fonts cause the data to appear. Does FM require a certain font to be installed? Thanks for a response. Version: v3.x Platform: Mac OS 9
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Hi, We are running a novell LAN and have a number of XP Workstations using local installs of FikeMaker Pro 5.5 over IP . Lately users have complained about not being able to access FM Files from a shared network folder. FileMaker reports the following "file they wanting" could not be found and is required to complete this operation. when trying to open said file. At other times however it seems to work perfectly and multiple uses cam access the file. TCP/IP is slect as protocol being used by FileMaker in Edit Preferences. Any suggestions as to rge issue here would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Alistair Version: v5.x Platform: …
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We are having problems with one of our users machine. When she opens FMP, it goes through and loads the fonts, says Successfully loaded TCP/IP and then just sits there for a minute or two before finally opening the application. I can't figure out why this is happening. We have uninstalled FMP5.5 & reinstalled it and had the same behavior. We also tried installing FMP 6 and it had the same behavior. There is 26 Gb free on the hard drive, no fragmention, and I ran an error check on it and it turned up nothing. Any ideas why it would doing this? Thanks for the help! Version: v5.x Platform: Windows 2000
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I created a file at home over the weekend on my new Windows XP machine. I emailed it to work and now at work my Mac OS 9.1 machine won't recognize or open the file. Both are using FM 6.0 Client. I am faced with recreating about 5 hours worth of work. Anybody have any ideas why this is happening and if I can solve the glitch?
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Our server is a G5 with OSX and FM6. We have recently been experiencing issues with FM files sporadically not being accessible or viewable from the client workstations. The files are intact on the server. After recovering the files, they begin to act normally again from the client workstations. Any idea what is causing this problem? Thanks for any help you can offer.
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I am on a Powerbook with OSX and FM6. We recently upgraded all computers in our office to OSX and FM6. I am remotely connected to our files on our Xserver at our office. I have been able to work on all aspects of the files remotely with no problem. I attempted to create a script by performing all the functions and creating the intended report. When I go to Scriptmaker to name and save the script, the function window is blank and there are no steps listed to be saved. What am I doing wrong? All scripts created before we upgraded are working properly. It's just any new script that I've attempted to save is coming up blank, Thanks for any help you can offer.
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Does anyone have any information regarding the differences between fonts in Windows and Mac OS ? Our database was designed for the Mac and has worked well for a number of years but since migrating some of our workstations to Citrix and Windows output prints incorrectly due to the fonts on the Mac and PCs being ever so slightly different. It appears that FileMaker for Windows is not WYSIWYG. FileMaker themselves do not see this as their problem but as a font problem. Thanks in advance, Dave.
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I'm researching the use of FileMaker Pro 6 on Win2K Terminal Server. I've searched the FM Support site and read what I could, but can't find a specific list of limitations of developing/modifying FMP databases from a thin client. The FAQ has this Q&A: **** begin quote **** Can users create FileMaker applications in a Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services environment? Yes
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I have a customer who has decided to deploy my FileMaker solution using Terminal Services. So far everything is going well except for the spell checker in FileMaker. I can't get it to add words to the User Dictionary when the user clicks on the Learn button. I verified that the dictionary is selected and the the Learn button is available in the Spell Check dialog box. It just won't add words to the dictionary. Any words of wisdom?
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Why, when I open from the guest computer, do I get open windows from both guest and host? Here is the setup: The host machine has an "open all" script attatched to the first file, so the rest open automatically. This was created in single user mode on the host machine, host file. All the files were then set to multi -user mode. On the guest machine I navigate to the host and open the first file. In my open windows list on the guest machine I then get some duplicates, like (lineitems.FP5) and (lineitems.fp5) - the same with a couple of other files. I think the capitalized .FP5 comes from the guest machine's hard drive, although I have only opened files from the host. There…
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I'm running FileMaker Developer 6.0v4 on Mac OS X (10.3.2). I usually run the same version of FM in Mac OS 9.2.2. The most glaring problem in the OS X version is the absence of the toolbars. Personally, I dislike MS-style toolbars (just give me a hotkey or some Adobe style palettes). But, FileMaker appears to have relied on them, and then pulled their support in Mac OS X. It makes database design pretty difficult sometimes. The other annoying issue is that sometimes when I click on a button (actually a field assigned a script), the cursor "sticks" to the field, as if I simply held the button down. It's like it's forever stuck in a MouseDown state. If I cli…
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can you lock or restrict access to any of the pull down menus? for instance I want users to create a new file by running a script and not use the main filemaker menu
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I am new to Networking and to Macs. I have FM5 on a win XP machine, and a brand new Mac OS X with FM6 on that one. I have networked them together successfully, but can't figure out from the book if you can switch which computer is the host and which is the guest, depending on which setup is more convenient on any given day. The help says the one you open first is the host. So do the files automatically get stored on that machine that opened FM first? Is the only problem with this remembering which computer is holding the changed files?
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A set of DBs are going to run on Windows, so I do the final layouts, etc. in Windows (Mac is my primary platform). My Windows PC running Win 2000 is behind a firewall, so I have it auto-login as administrator. W2K & FileMaker are all update to date. I use a bunch of custom colors. In the color palette, I add them to the custom colors, but when I quit FileMaker the palette doesn't get saved, it is blank at the next launch. In the Display Control Panel, I can set custom colors & they stay there between Restarts, etc. Any ideas? TIA, Sam
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I created a file at home over the weekend on my new Windows XP machine. I emailed it to work and now at work my Mac OS 9.1 machine won't recognize or open the file. Both have FM 6 Client. I am faced with recreating about 5 hours worth of work. Anybody have any ideas why this is happening and if I can solve the glitch?
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Help I need to log onto a filemaker pro server from my machine at home using Filemaker Pro 5. can this be done using Apple remote Access or do I need to use something like Timbuktu Pro to actually control the machine thanks
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How would I go about removing databases from showing up in the File > Open > Hosts list. I have too many databases in there and I would like to just make a master database that my users can just open and from there they can access all the other databases. I simply want to hide specific databases from that list. Thanks.
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I am having a serious problem with FMP on my Mac computers. We are set up with one computer as a host, and the other two computers access the program as guest through the host's desktop. When we had 5.5, it worked fine, but now that we have 6, we are having problems. I keep getting the error message "Communication with the host was interrupted and could not be re-established (-3259)" whenever I try to either create a new shipping document or I do a search, but sometimes I cannot even open these files. Does anybody have an idea what's going on?
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Does anyone have any experience/comments on storing FM files in hidden folders (using Norton Disk Doctor to change the attribute to invisible) on OSX. I have played with some test files and it seems easy enough to open these files by script. I thought it may be useful for some "low-sensitivity" files - more really to perhaps prevent files from being being shifted or deleted accidentally. I look forward to your comments. Cheers, Murray
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Has anyone had the experience using FileMaker Server 5 and Filemaker Pro (5 or 6) on the same machine ? Could it become problematic ? Thanks. LVA
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Ok running FM Server 5.5 on a red hat 9 box. Sometimes, when a user opens a file some of the records do not show up. I have a master couter called "Batch #". That is created at the time the new record is made. It is a calculation of "Initials" a text variable + "page#" an incremental number variable that counts up by 1's. This whole thing has been working for the last 6 months until we switched over to linux. So just to clarify. The Batch# should alway match the record number..always! Now...this is what has happened. In a DB that has 9 records, actually show only having 7 when I open it over the network. Records 7 and 8 are missing...the batch #'s jump f…
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I have a system running 38 files and now want to be able to run it to another building about 50 meters apart. What is the best way to go about this? I will need a pretty reliable connection and speed (the application is up to 80MB and rising!), I have never done this before and am unsure of the best way to do it in FM. All comments gratefully received, Mark
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I've just tried to open one of my FM dbs via Timbuktu dialup (Mac OS9 both computers, FMP 6.04 on both) and it won't recognize/accept my password which includes characters generated by typing with the "Option" key held down. Has anyone had this trouble before, and if so, is there a workaround that doesn't involve changing all my passwords on all my files? Thanks, Murray
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After much effort I am at a loss, does anyone know if Microsofts Calendar Control can be inserted as an object in FMPro 6? Russ
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I now have my application running on the MAC and created a runtime under OS-X. Just discovered that it will not run in OS-9. Although I was able to startup "Classic" on my eMAC, I still can't figure out how to create the runtime in OS-9?? Also, the runtime application on the PC is 9.4MB. The same application on the MAC is 21.5MB. The executable file alone is 9.6MB! Am I doing something wrong? I'm sure I'll have more questions as the MAC-saga continues! Thank you.
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Has anyone used Filemaker Pro 6 on a XServe running OSX Server 10.2.8 or later to host an internal database? I know Filemaker Server has problems on OS X Server, so I reckon using Multiuser on FMP6 would offer me enough speed etc to cope as I only have 2 users. But before I move the database to the XServe I want to make sure there no known problems... Thanks Frank
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