FileMaker Server v7 - v11

I'm running FMS11 and am trying to connect to a FileMaker database with the PHP API, and I keep getting this error message. I have looked it up on Google, but the only hit that looked related was someone else asking the same question on another forum; the thread was a few months old, and there were no replies. -K

Is there a way to rename a database from the Admin Console. We tried to close the Dbase and rename the file in the finder but when we reopened it all the links to external storage images had been broken. Thanks

I have installed FMSA 12 (technet software for development) onto a virtual server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Service Pack 1 (64-bit). I also have FMA 12 installed on the same server. I cannot get the Web Publishing Engine to start. I can get the IIS7 start page to display. Below is the log file and the image from my Admin Console. I have followed the "Getting Started Guide" and "Advanced Release Notes" and I am at a dead end. I don't know what error code -1 is. Is there a document anywhere that tells me exactly how to configure the IIS Web Server for FileMaker? Deployment started at 8/8/12 2:20 PM -------------------------------…

Any way to surpress the error message when you have a script that searches and finds nothing when run from the server? Its not an error it just hasnt found any records!

Hello, I have had to open another server location that I CANNOT set up with a static IP address. This location is where I'm going to install FMS 9.0 (hopefully). I'm interested in seeing if it's possible to bypass the static IP issue for FMS by setting up a VPN network so that the server and clients think they're on the same private side of a LAN. Having never studied, setup, diagnosed or otherwise ever touched VPN, I'm very much in the dark on the feasibility and ease to do this. I know the filemaker Go clients might be an issue with this setup, given the VPN limitations I'm sure apple built into IOS. Here's other relevant details below: Server: intel Duo MacMini…

I just virtualized our FM9 Server on a 2003 server (will be bringing up a new 2012 server for FM12 server later). From a physical workstation I can access the hosted files on the server but on a Windows 7 virtual machine, I cannot. I can ping the server but cannot see any hosted files on the virtual server from the virtual desktop. The virtual client machine is using a DHCP ip setting. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello I am currently creating two databases using filemaker pro 12 for a hospital. The doctors and administration want to serve the file and they are willing to have a dedicated server for my solutions. I am just wondering, is filemaker server required to remotely host the files if they are on a server? Will I need a copy of filemaker pro 12 for every admin as well to access the file? The databases will be shared amongst 10 people as well. Thanks for your help

Hello everyone, I have a database (FM Pro 12) I want to access remotely via FM Server. I watched an online video posted by Wim Decorte on Youtube and followed all the steps, but for some reason I can't open it from my iPad. Like in the video, I was able to open the file in the same computer remotely but not from the iPad. In order to access the database from the iPad, I opened FM Go, tapped on Add Host and typed the IP address that I got in the server. All I get is file not found. Can somebody help. I am sure I am missing something here. Thanks. NR

Is there a way to export the found set from the web browser while accessing through Instant Web Publishing. I really would have just expected to see a icon on the tool bar as this is something just about everyone would want to do. thanks JW

AIM: I would like new users to be able to upload & start databases without interaction from the FMS administrator. Option 1: Is there a way to create/manage Administrator Groups in FMSA without going through the Java FMS Administrator Console. E.g. Automating this via a web interface using PHP or ASP.NET. Option 2: Alternatively, does anyone have suggestions about work-arounds that could accomplish the same thing without using FMS Administrator Groups. I.e. Allowing users who don't have an Administrator Group to upload/start databases.

I have a solution (filemaker 11 adv) which runs through filemaker server 11. Sometime ago, I disabled the option that does'nt show the file when using "open remote" command. Also.. I can't now "save a file" as the option is greyed out. I can't remember how to show the file when viewing remote files available.. Or to be able to save the file for a different name etc.. Please advise.. TIA

I am running FMS 9.0.3.325 on an intel Mac running OS X Client 10.4.11. Whenever I click on the Web Publishing Link under configuration I get the following error: Deployment/Configuration error -150 Starting the WPE(wpe1) component failed: error code = 2500 Also in the FileMaker Server Overview window WebPublishing Engine has a red dot by it and the following error message is at the top of the window: An error was encountered communicating with the server. Web Publishing is running. I am able to connect to a website running on the same box that is pulling information via PHP from FileMaker. The problem is with the Admin Console connecting to t…

A 799 Mac mini server + an FMP server license is the only way to learn FMP Php and such?

I and other users have been opening a Filemaker database remotely (using FM 11) without incident for over two years on a Windows server. All of a sudden, a few days ago, users outside the LAN of the college where the database is hosted can no longer open the database remotely. People on the network have no problem. This might appear to be a firewall problem, but my IT support person informs me that no settings have been changed for the firewall. Moreover, the server log appears to indicate that all those requesting access were admitted, even when Filemaker refused entry. I checked to see if old versions of the database that had worked fine would allow entry, but u…

I back up my databases every day using the backup function on the server. For the last two days I've been getting the following mesage: FileMaker Server 12.0.1.178 on FM12 Server reported the following event: 2013-06-02 23:00:00.414 -0400 Error 685 FM12 Server Error occurred while deleting backup folder "filewin:/C:/Program Files/FileMaker/FileMaker Server/Data/Backups/Daily_11PM_2013-05-26_2300/", some files or folders could not be deleted. (20402) Can anyone help me with this. Thanks. Mike

We had an error come up on our Filemaker 11 server running on Windows with two machine deployment. Our php apps are generating the following error when we try to connect to the database server: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerWeb Publishingpublishing-enginephpFileMakerImplementationFileMakerImpl.php Nothing has been modified by IT support or our developers as far as we know. Any suggestions what we might do to reestablish a connection between our web server and database server? Has anybody had a similar situation.

I have been successfully running FileMaker 12 Server Advanced for Instant Web Publishing (IWP) at db.npco.info, and am now trying to use PHP Custom Web Publishing (CWP). I've tried to follow instructions to make use of PHP API, but haven't succeeded yet. I will appreciate help or tips on the issue below. When clicking a link to test pages from a page http://192.168.1.26:16000/test on the server PC, I receive an error: Not Found HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found for Instant Web Publishing Test and PHP Custom Web Publishing Test (at http://192.168.1.26/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=FMServer_Sample&-startsession and http://192.168.1.26/fmi-test/…

I have been trying to upload some server side compatible plug in to my Mac X Server  I followed all the instructions to install it as a server side plug-in putting it in the appropriate  server folder, changed the file privileges to inherit the extensions folder privileges, re-started FM server and the whole server in several occasions but I am still getting the Plug-In Name as Not Loaded, I try to enable it, and as you would expect when I restart the server the selection doesn't stick.  After running several tests, including the removal from the extensions folder of some Plug Ins I never use, I see that the admin console doesn't refresh the list of plugIns availab…

The server is OK, I try opening on web browser and it's fine, but I try to open it via FileMaker Pro 12, add the same server ip on Favorites, but when i click on the server name, doesn't open the user log in window. Which can be the problem?

Whenever I try to run FMSADMIN, I am getting the error "Permission denied, please try again." I have double, triple, and quadruple checked the credentials. There is no possibility whatsoever of the username or password being wrong. I can log into the server admin console successfully with the same credentials, but they fail when I use them with FMSADMIN.

Hi, This looks strange to me last day when I found that our backup copy size just getting smaller recently. We host our databases using FMS 9 and schedule daily backup at non-peak hour over the night. One of the database file size is pretty large, which overs 2.5G in size. Our usual backup practice is to use FMS to run scheduled backup task and run script to zip the backup copy to a zipped file and copy it to an remote storage using some simple OS script. I found that the zip file size is reducing quite a lot recently, say from 1.92G to 1.86G. I thought my users must have deleted records with container fields content. After checking around, they said no ma…

I have just replaced my Apple Airport Extreme router for a new one with exactly the same configuration, however all of a sudden, one of the computers on my network can no longer see the URL of my Filemaker Server. So I can access my Filemaker server files from any computer anywhere, except for this one computer on my network. And even from that one I can access them if I use the local URL (10.0.1.14) rather than the universal one. It is invisible for both Filemaker client and IWP. I have checked the firewall and the same ports are open all over my local network. Anyone have any ideas on what may be impeding this computer from seeing this URL?

Hello, Â I've been trying to create a server side script that will run daily on a windows 2003 server using Filemaker server 10. The script is suppose to export it to an excel file. (I then what it to be emailed to me, but one thing at a time). It never saves to the file location on the server, i've tried every "filewin" combination I could think of. Doing some research and tried a $variable and still cannot get it to save on the server. Is there a windows settings that may be preventing filemaker server from saving to a location? Script picture attached.

The IWP session timeout on FMSA 12 maxes out at 60 minutes. Has anyone found a workaround for this? Our newly-deployed solution is used by some staff all day long, and I'm getting a lot of complaints about this. I found one GreaseMonkey script solution on the forum, but we have users, both Mac and Windows, with different browsers.

Sorry modulators if this isn't the right forum for this topic. Trying to open remote on FM Pro 12, adding the server ip, and clicking on the server name, doesn't open the user sign-in window, what is the problem ? The server (triple8) is ok, I open it via web browser and works fine.

I migrated from Filemaker 11 Server to 12 recently. I noticed yesterday our statistics, which are updated through a server side script that sets a couple of global fields, were not updating. I tried several things: - stop the database server, create new records locally and then starting again, reran the script but the global fields were not updated - created a new script, recreated the task, but this worked without issues in FM 11 so no luck there - google google google led me to no known issues or behavioral changes with global fields in FM 12 Running 12.0v4 server and client... Anyone has any ideas?

Hello, I have a system running FMP 10 for IWP. OS is Server 2003. I have enabled the databases for IWP and ODBC/JDBC. All editing/updating to the database is performed on this system. Since the database is enabled for ODBC/JDBC, can a remote client connect to the FMP 10 system and query data (excel)? Exporting data from IWP doesn't appear to be supported. Is this a feature of FMP Server only? FWIW, I attempted to install the xDBC client from the CD, but it doesn't install on the Windows 7 X64 OS. I also installed "FileMaker ODBC Driver (64-bit) 12.0.79.0" and attempted to connect to the server system, but it failed. - Primary client based is Windows 7 X64

I have a few locations that are connected and usually just open the database file and it works. Today we started getting either the host is not available or the file is not available on that host. We just switched from using an MPLS to site-to-site VPN. I can perfectly see the server and everything but can't open my file. Locally I can open it no problems so I figured it's something with the VPN but I have no idea what.

Hello, I just built filemaker server 12. up and running on windows 2008 R2 Standart. Everything seems running good.i can access all my data from other computers thru Filemaker pro advanced 12 perfectly. But when i write the link fmnet:/[iP ADDRESS]/InterFORCES.fmp12 on browser like internet explore or safari it doesnt bring up my filemaker pro 12 program to open links. I have also filemaker server 11 advanced running on different server and same files for filemaker pro 11. and when i copy the link and paste on browser and press enter.right away finds my filemaker pro 11 program and opens right away. So same thing doesnt work with filemaker server 12 (not adva…

I attempted to use this feature the other day to prevent remote FMPro databases from connecting and bringing down one of the servers I manage.  I tested this in dev but when I moved it to production - ouch.  The results were disastrous.  Some users could get into all 3 of the related files that make up the db, some could only get into 2 of the 3 files, some just got stopped at the front door.  Re-reading the instructions (http://www.filemaker.com/11help/html/passwords.13.33.html) I note this phrase "A file that you want to protect must be local; however, once you turn on protection, the file can be hosted remotely."  I am confused.  Do I need to apply this lo…

I am struggling to get the email notifications working on FMSA12. I absolutely know that all the settings are correct and the email account is working fine on an email client program. Any clues as to where I am going wrong? Â Â

Hi all We're using some business software developed and running under Filemaker Server 11, and the clients are running Filemaker Pro 10. The company that developed the software, of course, wants to maximize the number of user licenses they can sell us, so doesn't have much interest in helping us with this enquiry. So I'm asking if it's generally possible - can Filemaker clients be logged off automatically after a set period of inactivity? Thanks Gary

hi, im new and haven't found a direct answer to this hopefully easy basic question: We are using FM10 Server , what is to do to update to Server 12 on a windows 2008R2 server? Deinstallation of 10, or is FM 12 ubgrading it automaticaly? Any other steps to do (and yes, i will do a backup of the server before this)? Thanks a lot

After doing a Java update, FM Server 11 was dead. The technique here http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/88896-fix-for-issues-with-latest-java-updater-on-os-1068/ definitely got it working. However, I'd advise caution. I did this on 2 servers. One the first server, I didn't follow the instructions exactly - I failed to Restart when it said to. This resulted in two problems: * java process started using 200% CPU * filemaker server lost some of its config info: my backup scripts, and alternate file & backup paths were nuked. On the second server I followed the instructions exactly and all went fine. Moral: pay attention, and back up your FM S…

We run a set of linked databases on a FM Server Advanced 12. The links work if the databases are all in the same folder on a client, but when moved to the server and accessed from a remote client the links are broken giving an error "missing file" even though the databases are in the same relative place as they were on the client install. Has anyone seen this before? We had to move our setup off a Mac server as this was out of warranty, the same setup worked on the Mac installation of the server. Current setup: Windows 2008 server R2, Filemaker Advanced Server 12.0.4, remote clients all FM Pro 12.0.4

Folks, I'm having an absolute shocker here with users reporting Filemaker crashes throughout the day. We are running Filemaker Server 10 on a Win2K3 SP2 platform and we have a mix of clients on OSX and XP. Three of the windows clients are having issues where they do seemingly unrelated things and Filemaker will crash. The error messages received are - "An error occured during this operation" (very descriptive) and "An unsupported operation was attempted" (again...) Also we get the generic "Filemaker Pro.exe has encounted a problem and needs to close", windows thing. It is happening on three PC's, the other 40 or so are ok. I have tried the following …

We're using FMP11 Server Advanced on Windows Server with FMP11 on Windows 7 or XP computers or on a Windows terminal server. We're analysing the Server Event Log files to look more closely about how the databases are being used. The serve reports events such as 94 - Client "%1" opening database "%2" as "%3" where the % items are replaced with variable information, so %2 might become Parts List and %3 might be engineering. %1 looks usually looks something like Production (TS1) [10.0.1.8] Now we recognise (TS1) as the name of one of the computers in our network and [10.0.1.8] as an IP address. However the name at the beginning of %1 isn't a name we recgnise …

Hi people, (I'm new to filemaker in particular) I'd want to build a database and have it hosted externaly and let as many users as possible access it online. My question is reading a specification detail about a 100/250[ theorical ] limit of simultaneous users connected at an exact same time: - Is there a limit for the qty of "registered user" i.e 250 ? (that is user 251 could not register even when noone is connected) or will I be able to let some10.000+ users register a new account and my database will be accessible as long as there is only 250 connected at a particular moment ? *Note I am not too concerned about this 250 numbers in itself since I…

Hello, I'm new to FMS and I'm trying to figure out why opening a database is taking so long. When I open the DB over our gigabit LAN things work smoothly and the layout opens in 1-2 seconds, but if I switch to our Wireless LAN opening the same layout can take up to 90 seconds and if I try to connect via VPN from home then we're into the minutes time frame. All the calculations occur server side in FMS correct? So if it's sending the same amount of results data why does a drop in connection speed cause such a drastic change in load times, unless of course wer're sending a HUGE amount of data to the client. Is there a way to track how much data is getting sent to the cl…

I've heard Wim Decorte and Steven Blackwell say to not enable the "Automatically start Database Server" option in the Admin Console, and to use an OS-level script that runs when the server starts instead. What I'm looking for is an example of that script, which could possibly start the database server if the computer did not crash, or restore from latest backup if it did crash, etc. Currently I do not have a script to do this, so I have to manually start the database server after every server restart. Before I start from scratch writing my own OS-level script, I was hoping someone is willing to share theirs, or at least ideas of how to write it. I manage both Windows an…

I just had issues with FM 12 Server ( v.4 ). The Admin was basically unresponsive. I could not get the Clients to disconnect. My client still worked fine, so Server was running. It is Saturday Night & we did not have much activity today. So, I decided to take down the Server. The Admin would not do the job. I killed Services. I could not restart Server. The web page came up, but it would not let me get to the Admin. Prior to killing it, I would briefly see a message that said something like "Downloading application...". Never saw the details. This was when the web page was loading, prior to getting access to the Admin. I could live what that, …

I'm running FileMaker Server Advanced 12.04 on a Windows 2008 R2 server. Today I noticed that when I start the Admin Console I get an error and cannot manage FMSA: This happened before but so long ago I don't remember the solution. I do know that restarting FileMaker will not resolve the problem. I think it is related to a Java update. IIRC, there was some kind of temp band-aid fix that involved stopping all the databases and launching the admin console and then leaving it open and restarting all the databases but again, I'm fuzzy. I see there's a post in the MAC section with a similar issue (though the Admin console won't start at all), but the solution is s…

I swear that we read that FM 12 Server would not have any limits on caching. We are running Server 2008 (r2) on a Virtual Server. The virtual machine has 4 Gig. The FM12 Cache seems to be stuck at 2 Gig. I do not find any references to caching on the FileMaker Website, on the Server Pages, whichs seems odd. Pretty important stuff. We are thinking about throwing a couple more Gig at FileMaker this weekend, but I do not want to waste our Admins time, if 12 Server cannot use it. Has anybody gone over 2 Gig on 12?

My plan is the put the UI on desktop, using separation model with only Data served. There will be a mix of users accessing from everywhere, iPad, wan, network. Can I have a UI on the desktop for local users and also serve the same UI on the FM server with FMS for those accessing from off site? Of course I would have to make sure the UI was the same ... or would I? situation will be: 1500 users (not all at once). Have windows server top spec according to requirements and Steven Blackwell's suggestions. Box is fully protected and set raid 10. Thank you for any ideas.

When we try to delete from our largest complex table, it deletes 200 records per minute. With 4,000 records, that will take 8 long, very long minutes or more, forgive me if my math is inaccurate. Problem is... that is a long time to wait. Is there anything I can do to speed it up? Thank you for any ideas. I appreciate this forum very much. Char()

I'm attempting to set up our database on our network to be accessed via a remote desktop connection to our app server. RDC is how our company is currently set up to access our Oracle system and therefore this is how we would like to access our FileMaker database. I understand I'll need FMS on one machine, and FMP on the app server. To let multiple users logged into the app server access the database a FMP volume license is required, so I'm told. Seeing that technically ONE copy of FMP will be installed on the app server for users to use, how is a Volume License entered to make this work? I'm under the impression a volume license is for multiple copies of the software …

I recently did a re install of the FM Server to a new machine. I can navigate to the fmiiwp default page, and when I click a database I receive "Database Not Available" I have checked permission and and ensured IWP was enabled. Any ideas?

Hi. We have the following setup: Filemaker Server v11.03 on Windows 2003 Server. All clients are Filemaker v11.03. I now have one User, who needs to access the Filemaker Servers files with Filemaker 12, because he has a Statistics Program ® which can make SQL OBDC Queries to Filemaker and that only seems to work properly with a Filemaker 12 client (64 bit). We wanto make Statistics on the data in the FM11 Files on the Server. We have made tests. We created a local .fp7 Filemaker 11 file on his PCs Desktop and placed a simple table in it. In that file are also 2 more Tables from a file on our Filemaker 11 Server (the FM11 .fp7 file on the filemaker Server …

I have a text file that I'd like to UPDATE/ADD to an existing Filemaker database on a daily basis. I have the file in the proper location and defined a $filePath variable in my script. The issue comes with the import mapping. The left pane is blank because it cannot pull any headers or data into it because the import file is on the server. That's OK, I set the order according to the order of the fields in the file. I then schedule the script and see what happens. The problem is that the script only ADDS records, it will not update them based on a matching field key. No matter what I do, Filemaker seems to ignore the double-arrow indicating that the import sh…

Hi all I have a very basic question. I have a sonology NAS that i would like to use for my file backup from my server. The server is called "DocumentServer" and t appears in my sidebar. It has an ip address of 10.1.1.26 I cannot seem to create a FMS schedule to back up to it. I get a "file path not valid" message. I wish to back up to a folder called "database". My file path is filemac:/DocumentServer/database. Can some one advise me what the correct syntax should be please Joseph

We are currently hosting from a VM that has 2x75GB SAN drives and 1x250GB NAS. We are running the OS and installed applications (including FM Server) from C (75GB SAN#1). Our solutions are currently being hosted on E (75GB SAN#2). Backups, both full and progressive, are being stored on D(250GB NAS). Would this be considered an optimum setup? I feel like it would be better to host the solution from C, do progressive backups to E (from SAN to SAN, since it's a more frequent transaction), and full backups to D. However, our IT department has been discouraging having our hosted solution on C. My take is that if the VM goes down, we'd likely be restoring from the …

There is a new Tech Info about addressing issues with the latest Java updater for FileMaker Server 11 and FileMaker Server 12 running on Macintosh OS 10.6.8. Please see http://thefmkb.com/11958 for additional information. Steven

Hi everyone First of all thank you very much to all members of FMForums that allow valuable help solve problems and increase our knowledge base about Filemaker Pro Well, I have installed Filemaker Server 12 Advanced (V 12.04.405) on my computer running Windows 8 Pro (8GB Ram, AMD Phenom X4) and XAMMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc..), Is that in another post said that not supported, but it works for me well, you just have to ignore the error message to install and works. I have read on the internet that you could tell FMSERVER work with Apache instead of IIS, making some changes to the Apache configuration file (httpd.conf), such as: # Add FileMaker Web Publishing # Inclu…

Hello All I am in the midst of installing FM server advanced on a new server, because the original server is no longer stable. The old server is still working, but not for long. When I try to run the admin console, on the new server, I receive a license conflict with the old server. As you can guess, I can not shut down the old server, until the new one is up and going. There are mission critical files that are always being used. Has anyone found a way around this? Gil

I urgently need help with Filemaker server 12. I run a medical practice and have attempted to install filemaker server 12 latest v4. It installs Ok and then launches the start page but the admin console will not start. It displays a "Click here if console does not Start" but nothing happens. I have the most current version of OSX and have updated Java. Have also tried deleting the Java cache but all to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas what I can try? I am at my wits end Joseph

Having a strange issue this morning. Users are all able to connect with no problem, and all seems fine. The weird part part is that I am unable to see them through the server admin console. There are 6-8 clients connected, and the admin console is only showing one. (and the connection time on that one is shown as two days ago.) This was all working normally when I left last night. Very very weird. Any ideas?

Is there less chance of file damage or crashing if I 1. Only work with both files of a separation model on my desktop 2. Serve the files to local network that only I can access and design in them from there using Open Remote. 3. Other ways? I figure if I crash, I will replace the files (separation) immediately anyway but I worry about served files potentially being more sensitive to damage even damage I may be unaware of happening. Do I worry for nothing? Either way I back up the files every half hour. If served, I will use backup schedule and if on my desk, I use Save A Copy As. I thought I read several months ago that working served is safer for the fil…

I want to know if FM Server 12 can update a external MySQL db in the same manner as the client can using ODBC connection (ESS). It works great when running the scripts on the client, but seem like it won't work in the same manner via server and server scripting. I am using all relevant drivers and it does work with my solution, but I'm looking to move, automate and schedule this process to the server itself. Thanks in advance. Michael

I am trying to upload some database files, and I am getting the following error: The folder file in:/C:/Program Files/FileMaker/FileMaker Server/Data/Databases/ does not have enough space for the specified upload or it does not exist. I have verified there are no space problems on the machine; there is 36+GB of remaining space (the file I'm trying to upload is a few MB). I've had Java updates completely break the ability to use the Server Admin Console before, is this at play here? I have tried doing this from running the server admin console both from a Mac (10.8.4) and from the windows VM hosting the server software (Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise), a…

Hello everyone, For maintenance purposes: Is it wise to schedule a task via FileMaker Server 12 Advanced to verify the integrity of hosted databases? I've checked the FileMaker Server manual and guidance appears to recommend using this feature if you suspect a database file is corrupt. I was wondering whether it is in fact good practice to verify database integrity, perhaps on a monthly basis at night to eschew performance issues. Many thanks in advance for your advice and comments.

Hi. I have actualized to 12v4 the FM Server (in Windows Server 2008) and my FM Adv (in a win XP) and now FMAdv can not see the databases in the server. Is it a problem with the actualization? More information: With the version 12v1 (in both sites) I was able to connect. I can connected (in the same LAN) with my laptop with Windows 7 & FMAdv 12v4 to the server. I uninstalled FMAdv install again FMAdv 12v1, and I was not able to connect. In the Win XP computer I have installed FMAdv 11v3, and can connect with a FM Server 9. With the XP computer I can connect by a remote desktop, VPN, CWP and ftp to the Server. I can execute the FM console (in my XP computer) and…

Has anyone installed .net 3.5 on their FileMaker Server 11 installation? Was it OK or was there any conflicts problems after the installation? We need to create some sort of bridge between FileMaker and a thirdparty program and the developers of the third party program have asked us to install .net 3.5 on our servers so they can create a connector between the two. Many thanks Abdul

We have a two machine deployment on Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS running FMS 12 v4 and our php apps quit after about 10 minutes. After restarting the worker system it works for 10 minutes and then again quits. The error message displayed in the log viewer after restarting for Web Publishing Core is "webuser PHP 401 565 when querying the database. This continues for about 10 minutes and then the browser displays a 500 internal server error and all 3 of the php apps stop working. Any suggestions appreciated.

Hi all, Got myself in trouble yesterday. Hope there is a solution. I know I have obsolete material but it works for my needs. Hardware/software : xp pro sp3 up to date as of 2013/05/05 fms9.0.3 jre6u7 firefox 20.0.1 Situation : For the past few months I had no access (on my fms box) to fmadmin as I had inadvertedly updated my jre to an update that made my fmadmin to crash whenever I tried to select a specific hosted database. So yesterday, I tried removing that jre to replace it with jre6u7 which I know is the last one to work with fms9. As it didn't want to get deleted, after googling, I decided to use microsoft's fixit and I removed it but I a…

right now we have a windows server machine running filemaker server for 15 users. 4 macs and 11 pcs. the reason im looking for a different machine is because the server is in a small room and if we close the door it gets very hot in less than an hour and it starts to sounds very loud like a turbine, so we have to leave the door open all the time . one solution is to add an air conditioner unit but here in my country energy is very expensive , and that units is not for 24 hours working. the other solution is to buy a mac mini server with solid state hard drive, and 8 gigas memory . that mac mini doesnt get very hot and is very quiet and can be placed almost anywhere.…

I finally was able to instal with success FM Server 12 on a Windows 7 dedicated PC. I have the Server Web, Publication Web motor and the Database Server running. When I start the Wamp Server (basically a MySQL Server) there seems to be a conflict with the port 80. FM Server runs well but I need to instal on the same pc a MySQL server. If this does not work, I could run the WampServer on another PC and connect to it via ODBC but with the FM Server license I have I don't believe I will be able to connect via ODBC to that db on another PC. Or am I wrong? Thanks for anyones help.

Hi All, I would like the Filemaker Server 12 to run ALL in English The problem is that I live in a french country and Windows 7 is only supplied in french. As a result Filemaker Server 12 takes the PC's language and FORCES French down my throat. Is there any way around this feature to force or trick Filemaker Server 12 to run in English. Thanks,

Hey Guys Will FileMaker Server 10 support the sharing of FileMaker Pro 12 Adv files?

We are exploring moving our WAN users to a Citrix Xenapp server. I have seen threads in this forum asking whether this affects the Send Mail script step, specifically, will the users native email client still open and be correctly populated? I have yet to see an answer to this question. Does anyone have any experience with this? -Nate

I have a mac running Filemaker Pro 8.5 sharing files to other mac users on FM 8.5. I recently bought a PC running windows 8 and wanted to connect that to the Filmaker file, FM 8.5 wouldnt install on Windows 8 so I got hold of FM10. When you go to remote hosts it sees the mac running the FM file but shows no file to click on. If you try typing the exact URL in it says file is not found. I also tried copying the actual filemaker file from the mac to see if it would open and run on the PC which it does with no problem. Anyone got any ideas?

I'm trying out FMSA11 and trying to get server-side imports working using an external ESS MySQL data source. I have a single file "database" that contains several tables, one of which is the ESS sql database. My goal was to simply look for new records in the sql database, and then import these to another table. I tried to import directly (using "file:database" ) as the source. This gives a 100 error ("File Is Missing" error). From reading the forums, it's not clear whether importing from one table to another is possible server-side? (NB: my database is named "database.fp7" and lives in a subfolder on the server e.g. /Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Datab…

We scheduled a server side script to run on our FMP 11 Server Advanced (running on Windows Server 2003) and forgot to set a time limit for it. Doh! The script has now been running for more that 36 hours, so we guess it must be looping or something. Unfortunately it is proprietory Filemaker code from a third party, so we have no access to the script to determine the problem. We can't stop the script because the server is the current user and won't log off. The server is a production system so we can't just stop it and start again. There seems to be nothing in the Admin Console that helps with this situation, and nothing in the Documentation or Help files about ho…

Using FileMaker 11 on a Mac, there are two files in the "FileMaker Server/Logs/" directory: stderr and stdout, which contain the console output of a bash script run via FileMaker Server scheduled system script. Is there any equivalent on Windows? I'm using FileMaker 12 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and I can't find the console output of my cmd script (when run by FileMaker Server scheduled system script). The reason I'm looking for this output is because my script is failing unless it is run by an Administrator account and I'm having a difficult time debugging it since I can't see the output/errors.

Hi All, I want to execute a script in a database which is uploaded in server from client system. Is it possible to execute a script from client system. The actual scenario is, i want to add a record from my client machine. When i add record a voice should be come from the server or from the system where the file is hosted that " one record is added". Thanks

I am running FileMaker Server Advanced version 11.0.1.95 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit). All the clients are on Windows using either Pro 11.0v1, Pro11.0v2, Pro Advanced 11.0v1, or Pro Advanced 11.0v2. I have connected users with 0 files open. I also have some users that are listed multiple times, one with files open, and the rest with 0 files open. I've tried disconnecting them through the Admin Console and through the command line, but neither worked. I have the 'set maximum idle time allowed for FileMaker Clients' option set in FileMaker Server as well as the 'Disconnect user from FileMaker Server when idle' option in the client's Privilege Set, but that too …

Dear FM community, I got asked by one of my clients to arrange some FM-hosting. As i have a dedicated server on a good line, i want to host it there (i like to keep control). My question is; What are the possibilities for managing quotas? In example: -Number of databases per customer -perhaps disk space/bandwith per customer I see numerous hosting providers which have these conditions, i came as far as administrator-groups, but i can't seem to limit anything there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Kind regards, Luuk

Hi. Ive installed, removed and reinstalled a filemaker server 12.0.3.327 and it works perfect, except that the admin page refuse to work. When I visit localhost:1600 it says the page cant be found. And If I use the Start page at XX/admin-server/launch-page/prelaunch_single_en.html it only says that the admin page is not available... Admin Console The FileMaker Server Admin Console Start page is not available. The Admin Server process may not be running, a required port may not be available, or your machine may be running slowly. For information on troubleshooting, see FileMaker Server Getting Started Guide. For information about technical support and customer…

Hello, I'm currently trying to add another field into a PHP API array but it doesn't seem to be working... Do you have to restart the server for it to pick the field names up? Thanks, Scott

I have a DB posted using IWP and for some reason I can't edit the records. When I click on the edit icon in the status bar to the left and switch to edit mode I can select a few fields but not all of them. Whats up? I have various drop down menus and radio buttons and I can't edit any of them. There are some text fields that are editable and some that are not.

Hi, not sure if this is the right section but I'm hoping that someone has encountered this before, it's driving me insane. I'm running Filemaker Server 11 on Windows Server 2008 with IIS7 and PHP 5.2.23 (using FX if that helps) It seems that any page that requires data from my FM database takes ages to load. Any pages that don't require Filemaker load just fine. The main page I'm concerned about takes right on 90 seconds to load every time, and loads all the required FM data. When I access the database (either locally or over the network) there are no such issues with slowness, it's purely through the PHP pages that this occurs. I used the existing PHP install, I…

Hi, One of my colleagues overseas cannot get the password window to pop up when trying to connect to the FileMaker Server in our office. This is the first time we encounter this problem and I would appreciate any help to remedy it. My colleague, base in Malaysia, has just installed FileMaker Pro 12 in her computer. She tried to open remote file and add a favourite host with the correct host internet address. Normally, upon saving the new favourite host, a new window would be opened and the user would be prompted to enter the account name and password. This window did not pop up at all. She has sent me a screenshot and her host interenet address is correctly en…

Hi, Just recently uninstalled FMS_11 so I can install FMS_12 and in doing so I seem to have created a problem for the Windows IIS server. Web applications not using filemaker return a 500.19 error which has something to do with the applicationHost.config file. (See attached image). I have also attached a copy of the file in question (applicationHost.config). Any help here would be greatly appreciated. John 50019error.pdf applicationHost1.pdf

By Ken Moorhead of Excelisys... So, your client is running FileMaker Server, and they want their backup files to be stored in a shared or remote folder on the network so an automated routine can pick them up from another computer. And your client is not flexible about this; the files must be in the network folder by 3:00am or very bad things will happen! <insert doom mood music here> You then dutifully go to the FileMaker Server (FMS) console and type in the new backup path only to find out, no matter what you do, it is not a valid path. You are unable to have FileMaker Server backup to a remote folder, now what do you do? FMS can only back up to LOCAL folder…

We recently upgraded to Filemaker Server 12 Advanced to take advantage of the new container field capability. I have low to intermediate filemaker experience but am uncomfortable around server and PC's. We are running on iss from a dedicated PC. I am trying to set up remote storage of containers on a newly installed 2TB hard drive, drive D:/ but am trying to do that remotely because I am 60 miles away from the server. I can only get the database to look on my computer for the reference of the file, not the server external hard drive, where I am trying to store the photos. I could use some direction. Be gentle with your response, I am in uncharted territory wi…

Hello All, Â Â I am getting an error message when trying to add files to the FM 12 server. I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue? We are running FM server 12 on Windows 2008 R2 server. Please note that the file is in an .fmp12 format so it is not a file format issue. I also tried adding several files including the removing and re-adding a backup of the sample file and received the same error each time. Â Â Thanks, Richard Â

Hello! I need to access the information saved on FM v10 server advance to create reports on Cyrstal Report, but I do not know what to do, can someone help me? Do I need a driver? if I do, where i can find it? How I should I configure that driver?

Hello All, I recently ran into a problem with a FileMaker Server 11 installation that is running on Windows 2008 R2. After restarting the host server to apply updates users ran into problems connecting to the FileMaker Server. To troubleshoot further I looked into the FileMaker Server log, which strangely enough was missing about 5 hours of information. I looked around further and also noticed that the FileMaker Server had created a .dmp file in the logs folder about the time this all happened. This left me wondering what that file contains and whether or not it was a coincidence that it was created at that time. So I have a couple of questions that I have listed belo…

What is the best way to have the server run a script that might tie up a client machine? 1. It is a manual script not to be scheduled. (in this case after an import) 2. I would like the user to be able to active from within client. (avoid opening the admin console) 3. Can it be done without creating a schedule item in the console.

Hello, Wondering if anyone has experiences to share with FM server 10 v.1 - not being able to access admin console, yet files are being hosted without a problem. I tested out listing files, clients, etc. via Terminal and it seems its all up and running. Though everytime I try to launch the admin console page I get the "an unknown error occurred" message. I have seen threads about unsupported java updates that could interfere with this and I have updated java to the recommended version, cleared all java caches, etc. We are on OS 10.6.8 server. Thanks for any advice.

Hi All, I meet a problem, hope someone can help me. I need make two buttons, when click the first button, it will open the excel file I point, then I will make some change in the excel file and save, the second button is import from the saved excel file just now. (We must do like this). The script of the first button is "open URL" I fill "file://d:/Project/BOM.xlsx" in specify The second file, I use "file:BOM.xlsx" in Edit script, use Import Records. Both can wok well on my notebook, but can not work when I put on the server computer and open it remote. Please help if you know how to solve it. Many thanks.

Hello, I have a strange issue. We have created a small db that has a global table. We can do everything we need when the db is on a pc such as change global field data etc. Then when we move the db over to the server and then access the layout containing all the global fields, the fields will revert back to their original data. So we have 1234 in a global field on our layout that is from our global table, we then typ 567 in that field and close the db. When we open the db again, 1234 is back in the global. We do not have any type of relationship to this table. Any suggestions? Thanks, Michelle

Hey Guys, I have a couple quick newbie questions that I was unable to find from the FM site and searching around. Im pretty new to FM so these are probably pretty basic questions. I have been looking at FM to implement in our office for about the last year or so, have done a trial on a couple computers and feel comfortable that I will be able to implement what we need. Questions: 1) We currently have 10 computers - my understanding is that they just all need FMP and they can all communicate with the same database but to have over 10 users we would need FM Server? 2) It sounds as if you only need one FM Server to host the FM database and all computers w…

I have a couple of scripts which run perfectly when run via a client, but not when run as a scheduled script. I HAVE checked that all script steps are server compatible, and when I run the scripts in FM Advanced (11) with the debugger set on "stop on error", the scripts run through to conclusion with no errors. What else is there to consider? Any insights or suggestions welcome! Thanks in advance.

Windows Server 2003 has an requirement to purchase CALs (client access licenses) for each user or each machine that will be accessing the server. I'm trying to wade through Microsoft's documentation on this but maybe someone out there could just tell me whether or not this relates to running FileMaker Server. I think not, but here's the scenario: If I will have say 35 users connecting to FileMaker Server, this has no bearing on the number of CALs needed for Windows Server 2003, correct? I think I just need to purchase one CAL from Microsoft for the administrator of the server. (Note that I am not purchasing a machine that already has Win2003 on it. In that case I thi…

Hi, We are severely regretting the Filemaker Server 12 upgrade. It has been one issue after another since doing so. Most of the petty issues are worked out now except for one major recurring issue that we never, ever had a problem with in FMS10 or 11. We have a scheduled script that imports orders from 2 websites every 5 minutes throughout the day. This script and our server had run for 2 years with FMS 11 without stopping and without any issues of any kind. The machine was restarted on occasion for updates, but the FMServer never stopped running once on its own. About a week after upgrading, the script froze and somehow emptied Primary Key field in the entire …

I am new to FM 12 Server Pro and FM 12 Pro Adv, working with Windows7 I have installed on Notebook the FMServer and FM pro adv.working fine. I need the Server installed on Notebook to have ODBC for Creports access (without FM server not possible to access Crystal Reports. I have also FM 12 Server pro and FM 12 pro Adv installed on Network Desktop Computer with the same FM file to work with. When I start I do... remote,I see both Desktop 192.168.1.7 and Notebook 192.168.1.6 .....I click when working the FM file I need... and that works OK. If I try to login with remote and click (Desktop computer) 192.168.1.7. is takes some time and then popup not available,…

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has compared access speed between local versus cloud hosting. I have a pretty intricate solution using many plugins and runs shell scripts. The servers are located in our office in NY and just opened another office in LA. I have our LA and remote users access via VPN. Trying to determine if access speed, returning records from queries is quicker if hosted in the cloud versus our current set up. I think the biggest issue is upload speed on our end and download speed in the user's end. Thanks, Michael

FMP 12 Server Advanced running on a PC server. Solution runs beautifully in FMP on my Mac and through IWP in Safari on my Mac. Near instant responses. However, when I access IWP through IE on my PC it takes almost a minute per page to load. It seems to be having trouble with the images in my layout, but they are small (just custom buttons) and they don't seem to cache. The speed does not improve after initial loads. UPDATE: Actually, I tested removing the images and it did not help. The IWP login page even loads slow on the PC only?!? Any help would be appreciated. Launch date approaches.

Hi All. I have Filemaker Server 10 setup and running in our small office environment. There are 6 PCs running FMP 10 (one is advanced) and 3 more running FMP11. When I added the 3 FMP11 machines I installed the 30 day trial version while we made arangements to purchase the licensing. There were some delays in getting them so the 30 day trials ran out. When I did get the licenses I uninstalled the trials and installed the full version. 2 out of the three worked fine. The other is unable to see the database file on the server. In open remote I can see the server IP and select it but the available files side does not show the dtabase file. If I type it in it still fails to c…

I'm running FMP10 Server advanced on our internal network - it runs on a Vista Professional platform. Our firewall router has been configured to allow access from the internet to a database running on this server through IWP and also from an FMP client on remote computers. This has worked reliably for several years. After a recent Windows update, the web engine has gone into a sulk, and keeps stopping after two or three minutes. In addition, when you use the open remote option from a remote FMP client the database is displayed in the dialog box, but when you try and open it, the FMP client complains that database is not available. I've made no changes to the rou…