FileMaker Server v7 - v11

HI y'all Solved the username password...if you had never used user name in your file leave it blank, then log in with your password- it will work. Sever has OS X 10.3.7 FMP sever 7.0v2 and also FMP 7 is loaded on a iMac. I am puzzled. I converted all the files from FMP5 to FMP7 by opening and saving them in FMP 7. Made sure the files network sharing -on, specify user by Privilege set -on Moved the files on the FMP server7 as directed. I can't see the files at all from other locations. Even through the FMP 7 installed on the server. I did notice the file status lable all the files as "closed". Tried to "open" them under action..but they will open and close …

OK, who wants to put up some general statements on the speed of server7 versus server5/6? our solution would require 10-20 concurrent users and is a basic small-business app. i'm interested in the speed of LAN FMP clients, WAN FMP clients, and the new webserver in 7.

Hello All.. Running in to a small problem, and was wondering if anyone has seen it, or even better overcame it. Start up FM Server Admin... Left Click FM Server=>Connect to Filemaker Server=> Choose (localhost) 127.0.0.1 =>Click Connect Then...... Nothing Server and the sample file are all on the local machine.. But I can not connect, Server opens the sample file, because I can go back to my client end and open it, but there is not a list of files etc... Any Ideas?

Hi, We are currently running a Win 2k Server with FM Server 5.5. Runs fine. We now have the requirement to have FM Server 7 for a few FM7 databases - however we DO NOT want to convert the other existing DB's to 7. Is it possible to run 5.5 and 7 on the same server Thanks for your help.

Hi, I recently setup Filemaker Server 7 Pro, and for some reason once in a while when a lot of people try to connect to the filemaker server it wont' work. I thought 250 people could connect simaultanesously? The maximum I can get is 7, and I set in the server to allow up to 100 connections. Is there another setting that I am forgetting? Thanks.

hello I need some help for the configuration of filemaker 7 server for the communication with Active Directory. I have a msg in the event viewer event id # 24 Registration with directory service failed. (Unavailable) it's because I don't have enter the good configuration ? if it's right somebody can helpe me? Thanks in advance Gege ps I use windows 2003 but it's not in the list of os platform

Hi all, I want to monitor and count the traffic to the the single databases on FileMaker 7 Advanced. Any ideas? How can I identify the TCP/IP-Packages to a single database (not the traffic to the hole FM7 Server)? Regards, Horst

We have a database with 2 tables in it and over the weekend one of the tables lost all data in all fields in all records. The records themselves are still there, they are just empty. The client is running FMServer 7.0v2 on a G5 machine and FMP 7.0v3 on a mix of OS 10.2.8 and Windows XP machines. Restarting the server didn't do anything. No other databases appear to be affected and the server did not crash. The data was there on Friday afternoon and gone on Monday morning. Nobody was working on the specific file over the weekend and only administrators have deletion ability. Has this happened to anyone else? Any idea why it happend? This is a pretty seriou…

I am in the process of upgrading to FM7. Unfortunely, I am the only inhouse developer in the company and I don't have the time I used to have to develope. If anyone is in the DFW market and is interested or if you know someone in this area please contact me at [email protected] or on my mobile 817-401-1684. I believe this could work into a regular position. If this is an inappropriate post for this forum or BBS could you please let me know where I can get the help I need. Thank You, Michael Hinderliter www.steamaway.com

Hi, The databases are under the Filemaker Server 7. I am trying to export the data to the file and send it as attachment to the Send Mail script. But when I use the relative path for Export and Send Mail script, the file is not going to be attached to the email. Macintosh and PC users are accessing the databases. Is there a way to send the mail with attachment correctly without adding each user's specific directory to the path ? Thanks.

I've just installed and uninstalled server 7 and then server 7 advanced and reinstalled 3 times and everything seems okay until I try to configure the web publishing engine and I get the message that the engine is not responding. (This is the part where I login through localhost/fmi/config and get the admin console) Up to this point, everything seems perfectly fine and since the Server 7 and the WPE are set to start with Windows, I cannot figure out for the life of me what's going on. I'm using a one server set up where a small number of users (~25) will access a DB through the WWW and 2 users through the FMP 7 client so I need it served up through advanced. Anybody out t…

OK, I have an Imac with OSX 20.3 running. I installed Filemaker Pro, then Filemaker server, then Filemaker advanced server. I converted all of my old databases to the .fp7 format and almost everything works. My problem is the CDML web pages that were running on FM Unlimited and worked really well. So I use the nifty CDML/XML converter with ran without any problems. Then I took the .xls documents and put them in the apache web server directory. I bring up the URL and get the apache page, so I am confident that end of things works. I can bring up the directory listing just fine, I click one of the .xls documents and get the error "XML Parsing error" I have worked …

I'm working on a project using fx.php w/ 7 advanced. Everything works fine when all the fields on the layout are from the table the layout based on. I can also use fx.php to pull value out the layout with related fields. However, when I tried to add or modify the value of the related field, I'll get error code 101, which according to FMP doc means record is missing, even though I can retrive the data for that record in fx.php. I tried to send command like http://www.web.com/fmi/xml/FMPXMLRESULT.....1=Dr&-edit in the browser to FMP7 directly, and still getting the same error in xml result. And when I send command like http://www.web.com/fmi/xml/F…

I have a Win2003 running FMServer 7 Advanced... When Win clients login via a browser (IE6.x) then all is fine. But when users running OS X (IE 5.2) on iBooks attempt to login the browser displays and additional field, the field "domain" is listed??? And they can not login, what goes there? Thanks -Maurice

Hello all, we have a copy of Server Advanced. We have problems connecting the web publishing to the files. Do the files have to have the instant web publishing turned on? Does FM server have to be the app that has the files open?

Yikes! I'm about eight hours into the install of FM7 Advanced and am still having problems. Here's the short question: Why aren't my published databases showing in the "FileMaker Server Web Publishing Administration Console?" The longer explanation of the question follows. Overview: XServe running OS X server 10.3.7 -- FM7 Server Advanced installed (OK) -- attempting to connect to Lasso. After two hours on the phone with Lasso Tech, trying to figure out why Lasso couldn't see the published databases from FM7SA -- the most likely culprit seems to be showing itself in the "FileMaker Server Web Publishing Administration Console." This console is the web…

Hi everyone, I'm about to shoot myself just trying to install FileMaker Server 7 Advanced. Here's my setup: Xserve running OS X Server 10.3.5, fully updated. 2GHz G5, 2GB RAM. Services running: AFP, Apache (completely default), and FIleMaker Server 7. That's it. (FWIW, all appropriate ports open on our firewall.) This Xserve is basically brand new. I've been running FileMaker Server forever, and upgraded to FIleMaker Server 7 about 2 months ago. Thus far it's been running great. We're putting up a new web site that will require a bit of integration with FileMaker Server. So, I had to purchase the Advanced add-on. FM Server 7 and t…

Hi all, Thanks to this board, I know that the office I'm working in can't use Server 7 without upgrading all their files to FMP7, which is not in the budget right now. So we want to get Server 5.5. However it's not listed as being compatible with Windows XP. Can someone PLEASE PLEASE tell me that they're compatible?? Thanks, Tiger

Hi, This is how the field is defined: SerialField Text Auto-enter Serial, Serial number On creation, next value TRCV0500 increment by 1, Unique value If in one machine the user creates a new record, then first gets TRCV0500, afterwards TRCV0501, etc. Then, in another machine, the user creates a new record, and gets the message ""SerialField" is defined to contail unique values only. Allow this duplicate value?" (assigns again TRCV0500 instead of TRCV0503) What am I missing here??? Thanks in advance

Lately some issues have come up on the ebase phone support and users email lists around a long term installations which now have unexplained crashes. In one I dealt with, the problem seemed related to MFC42.dll This is a standard MS dll (used by most programs written in C using MS C compiler) and no version of it on the machine would even let me even view the version info. The FM problems with abnormal ending and this dll were fixed by replacing the dll with a known good one. Similar issues have been reported associated with the

Hi all, I have a problem where any user that opens hosted files appears in the client section of the filemaker server admin tool, twice. The first file that they open appears fisrt, then the rest of the files they have opened appear seperately. This happens regardless of which database is opened first. I am running server v2 and pro v3. Any info appreciated, Kerrin

Hi Guys I have quite a few scripts that rely on storing temp data in global fields (don't we all). Now this all works fine in a single user environment, but what happens when i deploy this using Filemaker Server with multiple users? I'm thinking that my scripts will go all screwy because the global data of one person will be overwritten by that of another. One example is I have a global field that tracks where the user has been in order to provide a 'back' button, i can't see this working in a multi user environment. So I guess unless Filemaker Server takes care of this sortof thing by itself, I need to know how to create a user specific global field, just like…

I need to open locally (not remote) Filemaker 7 files from the computer that hosts these files with Filemaker Server 7. Is it possible? I

Running IIS 5.1 on XP SP2. I've re-installed this thing at least 9 times so far. I notice there's some other threads about this issue, and I've read them all and followed the suggestions mentioned, but to no avail. I install 7 advanced. Restart Log into the admin console Type in the u/p of my admin account for the machine to set up the admin console account I'm then prompted with the U/P of the WPE, and I repeat the above. I've also set up the FM server admin password to equal the admin account on my machine. When I get into the admin console window, I'm told the WPE isn't running, and to connect to it click here. So I do, and connect to localhost (Every…

I need help getting some databases that are on my FMServer to be available to my FMClients. Here is the scenerio: I placed two new databases in the Data directory of FMServer 7. I set the permissions as follows for the two files: owner: fmserver Group:fmsadmin Both owner and group have read/write access to the files. I then went to the Server admin and opend the databases - which in turn, changed the files status to "Normal". When I try to connect to the files remotely from FMClient, the files do not appear in the list of serverd files but other files do appear. If I try to manually type the name of the file I want to connect to, I get a "database coul…

This may be a ridiculous question, but I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere- my office may want to start running Server rather than continuing with FMP's file sharing capability. All of the computers are running either FMP 5.5 or 6. Can we install Server 7 and have it run these older files, or do we have to get Server 5.5? I'd like to get something that we can grow into if possible, without having to upgrade the entire office at once. Thanks!

WHICH ERROR DID I MAKE AND MAKING? 1. installed IIS 6 3. INSTALLED Server 7 & Server 7 Adv. 4. RESTARTED 5. Configured Server 7 & ENABLE Web Publishing Engine Client Services Identifier and Passcode 6. Login to Web Pub. Admin console (http://localhost/fmi/config) 7. Entered INDENTIFIER and PASSCODE into username and password fields. BUT... I STILL GET "USERNAME & PASSWORD INVALID". If I Cancel Web Publishing configuration I get "UNEXPECTED ERROR." I've restarted these services many times and STILL get these errors. WHAT AM I MISSING? Please help.

Hi, somebody know where can I find the root folder of Filemaker Adv. Server 7 on a PC with Windows 2003 ? Thanks! David

Hello all. I've done this before for a different group and password called Tech about three years ago and it worked. I've been asked to create a password for the network group to "just read" our database. I followed took the server offline, stopped Filemaker services, opened the file, it gave me my options to create Access Privliges. I created the password first (netgroup), then the group (Netgroup), I set up the access for all the fields to read. I can use the password on the server, but when I try it from fom another computer I get the password incorrect. Please, what am I missing. THANKS!!!!

Wrote some scripts in Applescript to move some import files and another script startup a fp7 file which had an embedded FMP script to do some data imports. Everything worked well for 3-4 days and then poof - nothing. The scripts won't come alive anymore through the FMP Server Scheduler. It may have something to do with permissions changing - but I DID NOT modify anything. The only way the scripts will run - is if I launch them myself. This is a crappy waste of my time - I followed FMP instructions on how to set privilieges for the script folder and the scripts still are quiet. Anybody run into this before?

Hi, I got some Problems getting FileMakerServer Advanced (v.7.03) with WinXP Pro SP2/IIS 5.1 running: While trying to connect to the configuration console of the server via browser by the URL "http://myserveraddress/fmi/config" I won't get a configuration page as exspected but a file named "config" for download. Of course this seems not be useful anyway... I've tried to reinstall all server stuff, tried different configurations (e.g. different system accounts for anonymous auth.) and removed antivirus and firewall stuff but all these things bring no solution. It seems the IIS is serving the wrong mime type "application/x-msdownload". I don't know how t…

hi. i am very very confused setting up the server advance on my g4 machine. the admin guide is rather confusing. i have alrady spent over 5 hours going through it but i'm still not able to set up the server settings properly. i need to set up the server so that users both over the network and the web can have access to the server. it seems that i need to configure the web publishing with the server somewhere but i'm not clear where? also how can my users access to the server? is the ip address enough? i tried to find a resourse place on the web that has clearly explained how to set up the server properly except the confusing admin guide!!! any help or guidance i…

I've oringally posted this in the Filemaker Online section of this forum but have recieved 0 responses for the last couple days. Hopefully regulars in the section will be able to help me out. Here is a link to my original post. http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=143571&an=0&page=0#143571 Here is the content of my post also..

I have filemaker Server running on a dedicated machine with filesharing OFF. I have Server Admin running remotely on a machine with filesharing ON. Right now I am using a USB pin drive to download files into server. I stuff the pin drive directly into the computer that holds server. The path I use at present is: Open HD > Open Library> Open Filemaker Server 7 >Open Data > Open Databases. I'm not entirely sure how Filemaker Admin communicates remotely with Filemaker Server. Inasmuch as OS level filesharing is turned off on the Server, how does the Admin know how tomake it over to the Server? Is there a way to load files directly onto…

My database pivots around a networked solution. I so far have four computers linked through the network. Computer 1 is a dedicated G5 Server running filemaker Server with filesharing turned OFF. Computer 2 is also a dedicated G5 Imac Server with filesharing turned ON. This computer, so far, only holds PDF files that are referenced via container fields in the client stations. Computer 3 is a G4 running FM Developer with Filesharing turned ON. This is a client station and where I do most of my work. Computer 4 is a G3 client station running FM 7 with filesharing turned ON. This is the computer that the guys in my shop get their information from.…

Open db remotely from a web page using fmsadmin.ex

I just put two files in the datadatabases folder of the FM 7 Server folder, and I can not get them to show up when I use pro to open Remote. First time trying this, what am I missing?:

Hello I would like to be able to open a db on the fms servr advc (7) from a webpage on another webserver. I guess that I have to use the fmsadmin.exe on the windows 2000 server but I'm not sure. If anybody can help ? Thanks

I want to publish databases on the web and I'm using an OS X server 10.3. I have installed the FMS+A on a OS X client and easily set that up, but when using the X server, I need to point to an index.htm file or such, as a starting point to connect to the web engine. But what is the path, and what is the file ?? any clue ?? ;-) Claus

Hi I was wondering if someone could provide me with a copy of the 'fix list' for Filemaker Server 7 v1 -> v2. Is it absolutely necessary to upgrade to that version why or why not? .. which is why I want to see that list. I couldn't find it at filemaker's site. thanks, J__

Anyone know if there's wany major drawbacks to running Fm Server 5.5 and FM Server 7.0 on the same machine? I'm doing an upgrade to 7 and it needs to be done in pieces (lots of unrelated databases). Since it runs as a service on OS X I assume it's ok, just making sure so I know if I have to buy a new machine. Thanks, Jeff

I'm using the Filemaker server admin tool and when I click on clients I can only see the computer names that are connected to a database file. Is there any way I can see which filemaker user account is logged onto the server. I created a bunch of accounts in filemaker for the specific database file, anyway to have those user account names show instead of the computer name. Thanks.

I currently have a solution with 5-6 different files and I'm trying to find a way to make my app work when all 6 files are served by filemaker server. Can I use relative paths instead of specifying the server/filename or would the files be opened by filemaker pro itself and not served by filemaker server, which could end up causing corruption? I'm worried about my solution being moved to another machine someday with a different ip# and the program basically losing all the table links between the different tables if the links aren't stated as relative.

Hi! This is a very embarrassing question. I'm about to install Web publishing services for FileMaker server 7 Advanced. Everywhere in the documentation FileMaker is referring to something called "FileMaker Server Admin Help" that describes several steps in the installation procedure. But what and where is the "FileMaker Server Admin Help"? I can't even find it!

When I attempt to connect to a Filemaker server host from FMS Admin Tool, I get "login failed" What login and how do I change it? There does not seem to be any functions available in the tool at this point other than to Connect. I am running Win 2K Server and have FMSA Updater 2 installed. This is a really frustrating problem.

We use filemaker on a dual processor G4. 25 people use the databases in our building, but the databases are also accessed from the internet via lasso and webstar. After being in the database for about 20 minutes you are likely to get kicked out and get the error message: communication with the host has been interrupted and could not be re-established. error 1072. Any help to stop this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

With filemaker server 5 I always used a striped RAID volume, does Filemaker Server Advanced need this to?

Can anyone tell me if I need FM7 Sever yet? Setup: I have a Custom Data base that runs off of a super fast machine. Really a Sever in it self... you know raid 2gig ram and 3.6mhz pent 4. I have three users including myself. (two of them remote by way of Filemaker Network). I run into trouble sometimes when the other users are in a file and in a field... so I can not change it until they leave. I am using FM7 right now alone with the rest of them. If I go to FM7 Sever will I be able to work off if the machine like I am now? or do I need to put it on another machine and tie into it like they do? Any one help me? Joseph

So I've been asked to install filemaker on a server for the folks at work. Haven't used the program before this week, but it seems to have installed okay. Unti I try and fetch the http://server:port/FMPro?config page, or indeed any other page from that server. Then the browser times out. Investigating why this might be, I telnet to the port and try to fetch the page manually: GET /FMPro?config HTTP/1.0 I type, and then hit return twice as expected. Sure enough, nothing. So I hit return another couple of times in frustration and THEN the page comes back. Very odd. Every time it requires THREE empty lines before it responds instead of the expected one. Lo…

After so many questions about how to set up IWP and FileMaker Server 7 Advanced we decided to make a video public. This video covers how to configure the FM7SA administrative console to work with IWP. http://www.fmwebschool.com/fm7iwp_video.php Enjoy! There are also a few other free videos available on this page you might find useful. In Kindness Stephen K Knight

Moved files to FMS 5.5 for Jan 1 on a Win NT4 server. A few days ago I closed Master Name file on the server and added 2 layouts to it and buttons to navigate to those layouts. (Changes made at remote computer using XP Pro) Then opened file on the server again. Today I noticed that when the file is opened using a main menu, the changes I made were not there, none of them. If I bypass the menu and open the file directly by using Explorer, the file shows with the new layouts etc. However, there are 114 fewer records in it than there are in the file when opened by the menu. Sems as if records entered from certain remotes were not added, or is there a ghost copy of my f…

I have been having problems with Server Advanced. I have it installed on Windows 2000 Server. I have people accessing the databases from iwp and as clients. The problem is when a client is in the file and for no apparant reason the database shuts down. Sometimes there is a message that the communication was lost with the host but mainly it just closes the file. I am running out of possible solutions. I put the files up on Windows 2000 using only FM Pro and then I added server 7 but not advanced. The client that used the file never had a problem. Why does it work fine without out server advanced? I know I need server advanced for people to access the files by iwp…

We are running Filemaker Server 5.5 on a OSX dual 2.0 desktop machine. Last night we had a blackout while the server was running. The UPS unit ran out of juice and shut the machine down after 5 minutes while no one was here. Of course, all our database files were corrupted and it took 3 hours to rebuild them this morning. Our UPS unit, a Belkin Office 750AV, has software that will enable the computer to run a script to shut down applications during power interruptions. What I'd like is a script that will kick in when the UPS goes into battery backup mode. The script would shut down the FM Server, wait 3 minutes for all files to close, then close FileMaker S…

We have a file with about 15 tables. When you add a new calculation field in 1 of the tables, it takes almost a full 5 minutes for it to finish adding. There are only 300 records in that table, with 177 fiels, about 75 of which are calculations. Any idea on why it is taking so long?

Following situation: FM7 Pro on Windows 2000, FM7 Server Advanced on Mac OS X Server, both machines in the same subnet. When doing an "Open Remote ...", "Local hosts", the correct name of the server, but a wrong IP address: 254.128.0.0, is shown (or fmnet://254.128.0.0/ ). No databases are displayed in the right column of the Open Remote dialog. With a second try of "Open Remote ...", everything works as expected: server name and IP address are correct, all hosted databases are displayed and can be opened. With FM7 Pro on OS X client, one directly gets the right server IP address and all databases are displayed. It seems that something goes wrong when F…

I see that using Instant Web Publishing within Filemaker Pro limits list view to five records at a time, and table views to 20 records at a time. I'm wondering, will switching over to FM Server or Server Advanced lift those limits? What I've got is an existing database that presents data, for lack of a better description, in sort of a spreadsheet format, with each row being a separate record. It already exists, and I don't want to rebuild it, but the client wants to be able to share it on the web. Being limited to viewing 5 rows at a time won't cut it they need to see maybe 30 or 50 rows at a time. Any input or ideas would be most welcome!

I am hosting files on FMP Server Advanced on a OSX Panther server. My FMP files (databases) work as they should in IWP, but do not when using the XSL sheets made by the site assistant (builder) that came with Server Advanced. The files worked well in FMP6 IWP and in CDML before I converted them to FMP7 files. I did not try to convert my CDML files, I started fresh with the site assistant (builder). I can search, etc., with no problem, but when I try to add a new record, only the fields that are "calculation" fields work. All of the fields that are "auto-enter" fields do now work, or in other words, do not auto enter a calculated response...they remain empty. …

I have installed FMP 7 server on a Dell GX 110 (Pentium III processor, 500 Meg Ram) running Win 2000 Pro and it serves files. However, it will not let me configure the server software either locally or remotely. I can not seem to connect to the server. Is there some sort of

Ok we upgraded to Server 7 so we can have more than 5 users on at one time, but now we can not publish the files to the web. I don't think there is a way to do it other than going with advanced server. My boss thinks otherwise. First I tried running both Pro and Server on the same box. The option to share on Pro is grayed out. Next I installed pro on a windows server, and then connected remotely to the Xserve, but I still could not share. Now I am trying to place the FM file on another server, and have both the windows box and the Xserve serve up the same file. When I go to the FM Server admin and pick another DB path of a mapped drive, I keep getting an invalid path erro…

Does this mean FM Server 7 supports ODBC/JDBC on Mac OSX now? Can FileMaker 7 products act as ODBC/JDBC client and/or data source on Mac OS X? FileMaker Pro 7 can be used as an ODBC client. In addition, FileMaker Pro 7 and FileMaker Server 7 Advanced can be used as a JDBC data source on Mac OS X. See the download area to obtain the files necessary to add this functionality to your product. A FileMaker ODBC client driver for the Mac is not yet available. FileMaker intends to provide this functionality in a future release. For earliest notice of more details on these plans, please subscribe to FileMaker Now newsletter. FileMaker Web Page Just needed to …

Hi all, I have researched the best practices, and am trying to find the best compromise for a new client who wants me to consult with their network guy on a move from mac to pc. Anyone want to take a peak at my conclusion? New client has: -Old LAN network of 10 macs -10 new Dell XP machines -Server5.5 -FM5unlimited (7 at office, 3 remotely) -database of 30 files, some 200mb in size New client wants: -everything moved to PC -no new computers -to move to FM7 in the future Network guy wants: -Dell XP partitioned server (one 40gb dedicated to Server5.5, other 40gb partition for hosting wifi network and shared data folders backed up regu…

This problem just started yesterday and is getting progressively worse. I have numerous navigation buttons using the "Go to layout" function, where the target layout is designated by layout name. Recently, some of my users have experienced failures with this function. Instead of taking them to the designated layout, it is taking them to the very first layout in the list. I have not changed the layout names and cannot duplicate the problem on my computer. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

First some background. I have been using Filemaker for about 5 years, mainly for solution development at work. These various databases are in version 6, shared over a company network using Server version 5.5. Due to the purchase date on our license, we received a free upgrade to Server 7 and Pro 7 licenses. Current problem: I have an XServe (running 10.2.8) that I would like to host a web based registration database on for an upcoming school reunion. I would like to be able to have classmates update their contact/registration information without my need to post this information manually. I would like to do this with Filemaker. Problem is, I don't hav…

I am running FileMaker Server 7 with about 20 clients. I have had trouble running the filemaker's backup system. It has managed to crash/freeze during the backup, which resulted in corrupted database files. I was wondering if anyone else has had any issues with FileMaker's backups. Thanks for your time.

Whenever I try to add a new record with server 7 advanced, running on a mac OSX Panther, I get an "authentication problem (mcs 607) error"...anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this? I can search, get search results, etc., but can't create new or edit existing files. Thanks in advance.

Using Server 5 and FMP 5.5 - I'm running into issues where one client runs a script to update certain fields and that change may take quite some time to appear on other clients (haven't verified whether it is all clients or just some). In particular, on printing an order I set certain fields to indicate an order has been printed. Errors are written to a log in a separate file just in case, for example, someone is editing an order and has the record locked. I also have a script that prints all 'unprinted' orders. User A can print an order and the fields appear to be set correctly on that client (indicating the order was printed). User B prints all unprinted o…

Help! I have a user who lost their network connection with the Filemaker Pro Server (7). Now, when they try to log back into the database, it refuses saying that someone with that same ID is already logged in. Lo' and behold, the server still shows them logged in to the database. When I try to disconnect them, nothing happens. This happened yesterday, and I ended up having to close all the databases (which took several minutes) and then reopening them. Today I've got multiple folks logged in, and we're working against a deadline. How do I force her off the server, and why did this happen? Thanks!!!

Hello, We are using FileMaker 6 and accessing a FileMaker Server database. I have found a script step called Open Hosts that the help file say the following about: *************************** Open Hosts script step Opens the Hosts dialog. (This is the same as choosing File menu > Open Remote.) This dialog allows you to select and open a shared FileMaker Pro database over a network connection. Options: None *************************** So how to you tell it which host to open? And how do you get the script to be run from a desktop icon? Any comment or response is welcome.

Apologies if this has been asked elsewhere. I searched, but did not find. . . I am using Server 7 Advanced (new user) and I was wondering if one can set the backup feature to do "archive" backups. That is to say, rather than overwriting the backup file each time, can it maintain separate files for each backup, allowing the administrator to return to the database(s) in previous states? If this isn't possible, any recommendations (short of doing it manually) for (semi-) automating such a procedure. (I use Mac OSX). Thanks for ideas!

I'm trying to set up an FMS 7 server to authenticate against a external server, and to register on LDAP. I am failing miserably Has anyone had success getting this to work? FMS 7 is on a Server 2003 machine and were are running MS ADS. Any help would be very much appreciated

My problem has been at the "tier 2" level of FM technical support for 3 weeks (since 11/29/2004) to no avail. I am trying to convert my current (fm 6 unlimited with web connector) database/web interface to the new (fm server 7 advanced). I initially used the CDML Converter which seemed to work well---no error messages, but cannot get pages to work. (I don't think what I am doing is anything fancy...just a query which pulls up matching records on a results pages---at least it would pull up results in old version.) Since I am not familiar with xslt I am depending on the FM Site Assistant to create some properly coded pages for me. But if I use "localhost" it simply refu…

I am having trouble exporting records to FileMaker Server 7. I am trying to create a script that will export all records in a table from their personal file to a respective table in the server's file automatically for my users. I have been able to do the import script pretty easily. Either I'm to tired of doing this or there is no way to do the export side. Can anyone help?: Thanks!

I installed FM Server 7 on a Mac OS X operating system for a client of mine. The users access the database remotely over a VPN connection. I enabled Remote Admin on the server, and installed FM Server Admin on my (remote) machine. I then established a VPN connection and tried to connect to the server with FM Server Admin, giving the same IP address as the one that we use to access the database. I get a "Could not connect" message. If anyone has any suggestions it would be appreciated. Thanks, SH

Hello I am very sorry to ask a question that might sound stupid to you guys, but forgive me as I am a newcomer in this filed. We had a server crash and what we did was copying all file maker databases and reinstall windows and recover databases. Now the problem is that we can not open some files and we get the error I included a screenshot of error <filename>.FP could not be found and is required to complete this operation. Server 2003 with file maker 5 and client 2000/xp with file make 6 Any immediate help would be appreciated

I am using Server Advance for iwp and to login to the host. When I login to the host I am disconnected after a short time of working on the File. We found the switches were fried and replaced them. I thought that would solve the problem but it didn't. Can anyone help? I don't know what else to do. Filemaker says that everything is set up fine.

Hi all, I can't seem to find the server 6 manual on the FM website. Does anyone have this and want to post it, or know of another place to find it? Thanks, -Raz

I have a question about adding Advanced to FM Server 7. I see under the Summary button in Server 7 Admin. There is a place to enter the License key for the newly installed Advanced. This seems to change the status of the web publishing engines to "Permitted." What I don't quite understand is under the configure button, There is a spot to add FileMaker Web Publishing Engines. 1. It allows you to only add one. This implies that others can be added. Why would others be able to be added? 2. What is the purpose of the Identifier and passcode? DO I just make these up,or is there some specific relationship as to what these need to be in relation to the inst…

I'm new to fm server 7 and I am wondering if it is possible for a client to access a file using something like internet explorer from the server. I do not want to access it via fm pro 7 on the client's computers. If so how can this be done? I'm totally lost. Thanks

Until yesterday we were running filemaker 7 server (demo version). We bought Server 7 advanced. We un-installed the demo version, got server 7 up and running. I moved over 30 database files to the required folder. All but 3 files work fine. These three files now say "this action cannot be performed because this file is not modifiable" when you try to add/edit/administrate...anything!!! I've tried recovering the file. I've tried creating a clone and re-importing. Still the same thing. Help! Does anyone know what to do to fix this?? many thanks....

I have a timecard setup on my filemaker server, and all the employees have filemaker on their computers - so they connect to the server, log into the timecard file, click the button with theire name on it and view their time cards, and finally punch in. That's how it's spose'd to work anyway... A few people have found out that if they change the time on their computer, they can mask the fact that they have been coming in late - because the timecards are taking the time on the users machine instead of from the server. So, my question - How do I fix this so the time is read from the the server and not the user's machine? HELP! Thank You I. Jones

I wanted to share a discovery of mine. I run very large databases 380,000+ records and growing. We had a database that was terribly slow when creating new records. It would take 7-13 seconds to create a record. During the 7-13 seconds, it sent about 4 megabytes of information. What was it sending? Every unique primary ID of the database to the client... so the client can configure out if the record it made was unique or not... What fixed it? I had to uncheck the check for "Unique" values in the field settings. I think it's rediculous that something as keeping unqiue values is so poorly implemented not to mention poor FM backup implementation. This pro…

I recently installed FileMaker Server 7 on a Mac OSX G4 Dual 1Ghz with 2G of RAM. I have everything running perfectly, well almost everything. My issue is when I try to use the FM Server Admin Utility remotely. If I am on the local network, the admin utility works fine from a workstation, and it also works from the local machine (server). As soon as I am off site, I do not have any luck. I get a message the a connection failure has occured. Has anyone run into this issue? I have opened the following ports at the router in association to FileMaker's access: 25003 5003 Any ideas, or has anyone else had this issue? Thanks in advance.

Hi all, I'm newbie in filemaker(just two years Dev.), now I try to help my client files put on the web (plan buy the server7) and my problem is I need more information on you'll. Questions below: 1) When my file is develop by version 7, need any special convert? like script, pop-up menu, layout, and... Thank for your reply!

I noticed that when I open a remote file it only allows me to open a file thats on the local network. If I were to VPN into the network from my home computer, would I be able to open up the database in FMP through remote open? Thanks.

[Mac OS X 10.3.6] Ports 5003, 50003, 50006 are open; both ends. Remote Administration is enabled in Server setup. Able to see the database from FMP via Internet. Looking at the same IP from Server Admin gets

Is there a way to keep the "FileMaker cannot share file because FileMaker network sharing is turned off" from popping up. I use FM7 over a Terminal Services (Remote Desktop Connection) in a Server 7 network. When a user connects to the Terminal Server and there is another session running the Remote client gets the notification that the File cannot be shared because another user is sharing the file already. By clicking OK the user can then acess the file, but it's annoying. I had turned network sharing on so that users didn't get the message that appears when the network sharing is turned off and this is the reason for the users getting the message for not being able to sh…

FM Server is 5.5, and I have built a new computer to run FM Server on. OS is Windows 2003 with the latest updates. Computer is AMD 64bit 3400+ Process, with a Raid 0 on 2 10,000RPM SATA Drives. Includes 1Gig of Corsair RAM. Now, the issue I've run into: My users are getting randomly kicked off the server. There has been no specific task, or action on the user part that seems to be causing it. All of the computers on my network seem to prone to this happening, EXCEPT my computer, which I use to develop on. I did some testing to see if my computer was causing the issue, and it happened with mine on, off, in use, ect... When I look at the error that Even…

After reading the thread about FM Server 7 Hardware requirements, I decided to start a separate one about Server 5. I would like to install Server 5 on a 450 MHZ G4 with 768 RAM. There are under 10 databases being served locally to about 8 clients max. Does this sound like it will work out? I realize that I will probably need to upgrade the machine if I move to FM 7. But that will not be for awhile.

I'm running FMServer 7.0 in OS 10. I'm trying to connect to a hosted database using Windows XP. Everything has been working fine until today. (Usual story, eh?) Anyway, each time I connect to it I get "File has been forcefully disconnected by the host. All affected windows will be closed." When I check the server, sure enough the database is closed, so I reopen it and it closes each time I try to connect. Any ideas?

Hi everyone. First off, let me say that I know all about the fact that running FM Server and Client on the same machine is claimed to be an unsupported configuration. But bear with me anyway.. I'm hoping that someone can shed light on the situtation. We have a rather small database that sees infrequent usage (only some tens of accesses per day). But these accesses need to happen from one of two networked computers, and when they do happen they are fairly business critical. Due to the small size of the network, it doesn't make economic sense to have a separate computer with FileMaker server running all day long. Likewise, since both computers are sometimes us…

Been playing with FMSA and serving up pages to the web. I can put text in a FM field using unicode and have it show up on the web correctly. For example, enter japanese text in the field, view the record on the web, it stays as japanese. BUT I cant get web forms with text entered as unicode to work when submitted back to FMSA. For example, if the field on my form has been filled out using Japanese and submitted, when viewing the field contents in FMSA there is nothing but questio marks and squares. I have made sure that my web pages are set to UTF-8 encoding, but still no go. Now if I copy the text out of the FM field and paste it into a unicode savy application…

Here is a riddle. I am running Filemaker Advanced Server 7. I use Frontpage for our currently static web site. I use a Linux box to serve my web pages. I will have an SSL certificate shortly and I use Authorize net as my payment processor. I currently use Filemaker along with Waves in Motion Eauthorize to run credit cards directly from my FM DB. Objective: To make or find a pre-made shopping cart that will work with FM and Frontpage, so that site visitors can purchase directly online, rather than calling us to order. Please, Please, PLease help! I have searched this forum, but without any luck. I dont know too much about PHP or anything fancy. I like F…

Hi, I try to uninstall Filemaker advanced server 7 on windows 2003 Server. Windows stop the uninstall process with a general error message. If I look in the events viewer of Windows, I see the error: Action RemoveISAPIFilter, emplacement C:WINDOWSsystem32, command : C:WINDOWSsystem32wscript.exe //B "C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker Server 7Web Publishingjakarta-tomcatbinremovefilt.js" -n "FMI Web Publishing" Somebody can help me ? Thanks! David

I have a Tasks database that is part of an integrated solution hosted via Server 7. I would like to host just this database using a copy of Filemaker Pro 7 so that I can allow users the ability to log their time sheets remotely. We are a small organization and the 5 user limit is not an issue. I don't have the budget for Server Advanced. It seems that it is not possible to have the file hosted and then publish it separately using IWP. Does anyone have a work around solution for this situation. Roger

Hi, I am going to be releasing some software to a group soon, which will run on FM7 Server Advanced. I've developed it using FM7 Developer. I was looking ahead and thinking to myself how there are obviously going to be some updates/fixes which need to be done, once it's been rolled out to the users. But once they start entering data, then how am i to grab the database file and then make changes and put it back in without disrupting them? Is it that you use a clone? or? thanks for any help you can offer, sincerely, J__

I have an instance of FileMaker Server 7.0v2 running on Windows 2003 Server. It is a dedicated server that only runs FM. Currently I am hosting a single database and I am the only user connecting to it. When attempting to open the db remotely through FileMaker Pro 7.0v3 the server appears right away, however, it takes about a minute for the hosted db to appear. After the db appears, I can open it fine. This delay seems to very high for the low workload, does anyone know what could be the problem? Thank you.

I am working for a client trying to get filemaker 7 server advanced up and running with an xslt example.. but I can't seem to get anywhere on this. I only received a CD for FileMaker 7 Pro and a CD for Filemaker Server 7 Advanced. Now, the only thing I see on the Filemaker Server Advanced CD are: "Filemaker Web Publishing Tools" & "Filemaker Web Publishing Engine"... Is this correct?.. am I supposed to have a Filemaker Server 7 CD as well? I have installed both of these programs and the only executables I end up with are, Filmaker Site Assistant and a CDML converter.. I'm pretty clueless because I am not in contact with the client directly, so I was hoping s…

We are having some performance issues with some of our scripts that are running. I am wondering if it is due to the default values assigned to the cache and flush cache. It says I can assign a max of 684 mb to the cache. Do I want to up that from the default 64? If I do, what should I set as the cache flush time? Any insight you can offer would be great! john

I am a bit confused on configuring the subject software. I am currently using Filemaker Pro Unlimited 6.0 to serve my databases and CDML on a Apple G4 running Mac OSX (ver 10.3) and also using a Apple G4 running Mac OSX "Server" (ver 10.3) to serve our web site pages. We have purchased a new Apple G5 to host our databases under Filemaker 7.0 Server Advanced. I would like to maintain the same configuration described above. I have loaded Filemaker Server 7 on the new Apple G5 and tested one of our converted databases on it over the LAN. All works fine. I am now ready to load the "Web Publishing Engine" of Filemaker Server 7 Advanced on top of Filemaker Server…

I need some help. I have spent the last 9 hours converting one of our production database over to FM Server 7 Advanced. When I try to connect to the http://server/fmi/config I get a message saying cannot connect to the configuration database. I installed this several times on a test server & never had any problems. I searched the web and didn't find anything. Has anyone run into this problem? Thanks! John