FileMaker Server v7 - v11

I have Filemaker Server 10 installed on a Macmini with OS X Server (Snow Leopard) installed. I can easily upload and open a remote Filemaker DB over my local network. What I can't figure out is how to open access the DB over the internet via our fixed IP. Can someone help me with this or point me to where the instructions are for this? My goal is to allow coworkers to access this DB from their homes via the internet. They each have FM10 client installations. To clarify, I want them to be able to open the actual FM Database, not via a web browser. Thanks!

Actually, I'm not completely sure that the problem is as stated in the subject line, but it sure looks that way. We are running FMP 8.5Adv on a number of platforms (OSX, OS9 and various Windows), connecting to about two dozen files on an OSX (10.4.11) server running FMS9.0.3.325. It has been stable for several years now, with minor ups and downs as we fiddle. In the last week, all of a sudden, a number of files running on the clients have stopped working normally. In particular, a number of fields in particular layouts are marked as requiring values before the layout can be changed. All of a sudden, FMP8.5 clients are insisting that fields on OTHER layouts be comp…

Been a long time since I've been on the forum so please excuse any social gaffes. I have spent several days searching this and other forums and have seen several similar situations but can't find an answer that works, but feel free to point to one if anyone knows of one. Have been running FMSA7 on Dell 1750 with Win2003 and IIS for about 4 years. Solutions are served to remote clients and to web via IWP. This machine also hosts a couple of websites, FTP server, and streaming video. None of these gets a large volume of traffic. Recently lost our access to IWP. I can see the Database Homepage and filenames but get a "Database Not Available" error when tryin…

I want to know in container field when we insert the Document/File as a reference on server side.the person A who is inserting document can see that document but another person B who is also using server side can not view that document.because reference file is on person A system. How to overcome this problem. i just want to insert reference of file due to reducing file size so that accessing of file fast. Geetanjali !!!!

I am doing a project for a client. They are using fms 8 on a pc server. I built the project in fm10. The file has the extension .fp7, sharing is turned on, accounts have fm network access. The server says the file is open and normal but no one can connect to it (open remote file dialog is NOT checked). Any suggestions??? This is baffling since the server says the files are normal. BTW, the server is properly hosting out other files so it is not a connection issue.

I have not logged in to our FileMaker Server 9 Admin Console in a long time, but this morning after reinstalling FMP Advanced 9 on a new laptop I cannot connect to the server so I wanted to check that the server was ok. But the Admin Console login is clearly something unusual because I can't figure out what the login is. Is there a way I can retrieve or reset my forgotten login?

I setup an import script step and it works on FM Pro running on the server but when I run the script as a server script I get this error... ERROR 100: File is missing do i have to format it differently?

Can someone help me understand the maximum number of FileMaker files Server 11 Advanced can host simultaneously? The FileMaker site advertises the following, does this mean FMSA11 now can host "unlimited" files per HW constraints? "NEW! FileMaker Server 11 Advanced does not limit the number of FileMaker Pro clients. Connections are limited only by your hardware and operating system." Thanks in advance, much appreciated.

I've installed FMS 9 Advanced on my Mac running Leopard with Apache 2.2 and every time I try to set up Web Publishing on my Machine I get either: "Web Server Test Failed. Return code = False" or "Web Server Test Failed. Return code = -1" Anyone know what's causing this !? I can access localhost without any problems, My httpd.conf file has correct syntax and has no mention of any Filemaker includes and even though I'm using my own version of PHP I've moved the API files to Web Server > Documents, just in case it was that. PLEASE HELP !

I have a client who's server had a power outage and FileMaker 9 Server was closed improperly (Windows). I was able to successfully recover their database files so that is fine but the problem is I now can't get FileMaker Server Admin Console to open. I've tried stopping and starting the FileMaker service (which seems to work), but when I open the console nothing comes up. I've even tried uninstalling the FileMaker Server software and reinstalling but that didn't fix the problem. Any ideas?

I am trying to start Apache and in the Server Preferences, I can't turn on Web Service. I push the button from Off to On and after a while the button goes back to Off and will not stay on. Any ideas?

All of a sudden I am getting this message: The alias "FMS 10 Start Page" cannot be opened, because the original item cannot be found. It asks to fix Alias and I don't know where to look. I am using FM 10 Server Advanced.

Hi, I just created a restore disk image of my Filemaker Server Advanced 9 on my laptop. I would like to develop new functions without directly working with the online server. Everything seemed at first to work fine. I was able to log in the server admin console and the status of the databases are normal. The image was verified when created. But when I tried to make a search using http://localhost/[php-code] I can't get any connection to the database. Iwp says "database not available", php solutions don't return any values from the databases. Other things like static images and text do appear. Anyone had similar kind of troubles or any ideas of how to …

I am trying to run an automated server script that spans across two files. Here is the setup: In File1 there is a Staff table that lists all demographic information for employees. In File2 there is a table for time sheets. The two tables/files are linked by staff_id. I want to run a script that automatically emails staff who have overdue time sheets. This works when the email address is stored in the time sheet table, but the real location is in the staff table in File1. Doing some Googling I have seen that when a server runs a script it cannot go between files even though there are relationships between the two. Is there a way to directly reference a rela…

I have a solution running on windows + FMS8 Advanced. Installed clients with FM 10. Now users cannot change their access passwords. Opening the file with FM10 locally without server, allows changing password. Any similar reports, solutions?

I installed FileMaker Server 10 Advanced and tested all the sample pages for IWP, PHP, XSLT, and everything seemed to work fine. Using FileMaker server, I hosted my own database, with web access priviledges set up. The browser displays the database home page which displays my database link but when I clicked on the link nothing shown. I have gone through the manual a couple of times but found nothing that can help me. I'm not sure what else to do.

Hi all, I have FileMaker Server 9 running (under Max OS X Server 10.5.5), sharing a database via FM and ODBC. On a Windows PC, I have the Sequelink ODBC 5.5 driver installed, and my system DSN is configured and works fine. The driver seems to take a really long time to run almost any query. This query: SELECT * FROM Shipment WHERE REFERENCE1='18281' returns only 1 record, but my hard drive's grinding away and my client application is hung for a good 30-45 seconds before the data appears in it... Is there any way I can structure my query to improve the speed...? Where is the performance bottleneck?

Hey all. I am upgrading a server. Can I run Filemaker Server 8 on Small Business Server 2008? I haven't seen anything that says I can't but I was wondering if anyone knows definitively yea or nay? TIA Jerry

I'm beginning to move my FM files over to Server 9. I used to have an icon on each workstation that, when clicked on, would take you directly into a specific application and ask for your password. For exactly, to get into the day camp application, click on the day camp icon and you automatically go to the file for day camp where it asks for your password. Now that I use server, I open remote, and then open local or favorite hosts and click on the appropriate file. Is there a way to create an icon on the desktop that will automatically go to the server and open the particular file directly without the additional steps? Sorry for being so long winded on this one. Mike

I have an encryption computation that exists as a command-line tool that I can call from the OS X shell (e.g. `/usr/bin/myEncrypt xyz` returns a value: 12345 ). I need to use this on a server-scheduled script to use this to populate a field in my database. I see that in FMSA11 there is a new class of scripts which has pre and post scripts -- It runs a FileMaker script, then a Shell script, then a FileMaker script -- so I could probably use this to export records, process them in the shell, then re-import. But this seems like overkill. Is there perhaps a simpler way to do this? Maybe using PHP or ODBC in the shell script itself?

I've got a very basic script that loops through all of the records in a database and updates 1 field (indexed) with the value of another (non-indexed) calc. field. This it to improve performance from PHP API web apps. When I run the script from inside FM Pro myself it works just fine. When I setup a schedule to run the script it says "running" for about 30 seconds and then says "Script aborted" without any information as to why. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hey guys, Am I right in my conclusion that if I want to have a LAN network of computers sharing an FM database and also want to share that database online with IWP then I will need Filemaker Server Advanced, not FM Server? Because FMS does not support LAN and IWP at the same time... Thanks, Rob

Hello, I have filemaker 10 server for snow leopard. I am trying to setup email notifications for a gmail account that will both send and receive the notifications. Any know how on how to do that? Thanks, Vidal.

Hi, My client is running FMS10 (soon to be FMS11) on a dedicated Mac OSX 10.6 box. Local backups are scheduled hourly. They would like an automated way to copy the most recent FMS backup file from their local drive across their network to their main fileserver running Windows Server 2008. I am a mac person and know little about the intricacies of Mac to Windows networking. What is the simplest most foolproof way to move this file? Thanks, Ted

I have written a bespoke solution for a client called ADG. This has a two file structure, interface and a data file. These are constantly crashing and taking down the server too; this has become so bad that the client has resorted to client copy as a host as while this still crashes often the files do not corrupt when doing so. The situation is no longer workable, I have tried everything I know to resolve this problem including a complete rewrite of the data file, checking all of the layouts and rewriting many of the scripts along with the following, which has been sent to FileMaker support who also cannot help me, saying they cannot reproduce the problem: SYSTEM ENVIRO…

I've read through the last 60 days of posts to this forum but I didn't see any similar threads. Forgive me if this is a repeat. Anyone else having issues with FMSA 9 crashing out about once per week? Our installation tends to choke once a week. Sometimes existing connections are terminated and sometimes they persist but the server doesn't show any available hosted databases when a new connection attempts to load a database. The server service is running fine on the server and no event log errors have been logged when this happens. In cases where existing connections are terminated, the FM service is running fine as well. The service has to be stopped and …

Anyone confirm if i'm able to safely run FM11 on FM Server 10?

Hi, The company I work for are updating their server, desktops and software. We have purchased a new server and FileMaker Server 10, the OS on the server is Windows Server 2003 64-bit version. As I was going through the set up of FileMaker Server it said that it must be installed on a dedicated database server and not on an email, print or network server. Our server will be used for these purposes but the GB and Ram is more than capable of dealing with these tasks. Is FileMaker alright to run on the main server? Thanks Becky

Hi: I am unable to gain full access to a hosted "opener" file using my username and password from my computer. I get message "Your access privileges do not allow you to perform this action." All other hosted files (8) open correctly in full access mode with the same username and password. If I close the file in FM Server, copy it to my desktop, it will then accept my name & password and open in full access mode. That made me suspect an OS X permissions issue, but I've quadruple checked permissions while being hosted, they are set correctly, and identically, to all other hosted files. I've retrieved the original file from a back-up, made sure usern…

Hi All, I have a file which is located on a server computer that users open, the file in return opens a file which is shared between the users using FM Server10, the sole propose of the first file is to allow me to make shortcuts on the users computers. When the users open this file there�s a warning that appears saying that hosting this file will reduce performance etc. I don't won�t this warning to appear I want it to open automatically as the file closes after 2 seconds anyway. See the attachment JPG of warning Any help will be very much appreciated! Amram Chayim Eirinberg

Hi. I'm having issues getting our FileMaker 10 Advnaced visible on the public Internet. The documetion is a bit "light" on what needs to be moved/copied from where to get this working. Here's the background. We have IWP running, with no problems, on our internal network. This is on IIS, Server 2k3. I have mapped a public url and IP to point to a dedicated IP address, and setup the firewall to forward and NAT translate the public IP address to the private internal IP address. DNS entries are configured so that the same url works both internally and externally. The internal DNS entry points to the internal IP address of the server, 10.1.1.155, and the…

I recently developed a solution at work using FMpro 10 A. I have it installed at my workstation and the solution files (6) are saved to the server's drive. Lets call is N: The server is running unix and the workstations are running vista and xp, mostly vista. How do I enable the other work stations to access my solution. I can I, and/or do I have to install FM PRO10A on the server?? I don't think its compatible. can I set up my workstation as the host? What to do?? where can I find literature

Error capture is not compatible with running scripts from the server. (This is documented in the Help pages at http://www.filemaker.com/help/html/scripts_ref1.36.14.html but confusingly the step is not greyed out when you select "Server" for compatibility in the scripting window.) Also, a find that returns 0 records will prompt an error that causes the script to halt when run on the server. Does this mean that I have to verify that any find will return at least one record before running the find? The bizarreness of this query makes me think I am missing something...

Hello I'm not much of a server expert so I really need your advice here. For the development stage of our filemaker solution, I used FM Servers 9 on a workstation running Windows XP sp2. Now the business is upgrading to a new server and I would very much like to Use FM Server 10. The new server will be running on Windows XP sp3. I can't find if it's ok or not. We have less than 10 users. Most of the users are using Windows XP sp2, some sp3. Most user will access the database with FM9 We hope to have the database available to our main office in another city. (everything in the server side is setup for it already) I'd like to be able to work on the d…

Hi, I am trying out web publishing as a solution to the problem of slow performance for our remote users. I can get to the IWP homepage, but when I try a database it won't accept my credentials. I have enabled IWP access in the privilege set. What else have I missed? Or might a restart of the server be required? Thanks.

Hi.. How can i view/download container fields in fmClient via remote connection to server over fmnet:/ (no mounted network path, as the server is on the other side of the world to the clients).. I have read that this is possible via client as XML/WEB? Is it possible via fm client? Solutions anyone? My database is starting to balloon with embedded containers. All media is added from remote locations and is now x3000+ jpeg width=350 thumbnails & x1000+ (simple single sheet ).xls/.doc/.txt files with only two weeks use and third of this is from fmtouch - its been busy with just a two weeks dev-lead!) is my choice either mount remote volume(VPN…

We are having some slowdown in our solution and I'm trying to use the log of usage statistics to narrow down the problem. However, I have no idea if the numbers are high or not. The FileMaker documentation will say "If the number is high, then..." but I have no idea if the number is high or not. One thing that seems weird to me is that I've got it reporting over a 100 remote calls/second. Can anyone give me insight into what they would consider "normal" ranges for these numbers?

I have a Calculation, Age, The calculation is right But the Server or Client does not update every day is there a way to make this happen with a opening Script.

Hi, We've recently had to clean install the system on a G4 Power Mac and as a result are now trying to re-install the FM Server Software from CD. However, as soon as I double click on the installer icon, the installer crashes unexpectedly. The G4 runs OX 10.4.11 and I've run all software updates. In the original installation guide it says it requires Java 5.0 (32bit 1.5.0_13). I think we're actually now passed that version. Could that be the problem? Any helps would be most appreciated. Gabriela

Hi, Does anyone know what needs to be done to change the ip address for the web publishing engine? We switched IP addresses 2-days ago and the link listed under the Web Admin Console is still displaying our old IP within the FileMaker Server Admin http://168.215.196.180:80/fmi/config This is FSA 8.0v4 on OSX 10.3.9 Any insight would be greatly appreciated as we have been dead in the water for 2 days. Thanks, Randy

EDIT: Sorry I didn't realize at the moment that this forum was strictly for Server 9 & 10...I'll repost in the proper forum. Hi, Does anyone know what needs to be done to change the ip address for the web publishing engine? We switched IP addresses 2-days ago and the link listed under the Web Admin Console is still displaying our old IP within the FileMaker Server Admin http://168.215.196.180:80/fmi/config This is FSA 8.0v4 on OSX 10.3.9 Any insight would be greatly appreciated as we have been dead in the water for 2 days. Thanks, Randy

I have FM Server 2008 I have set it to log all users offer when the they have no activity for 1 Hr. But Filemaker asks to log them off with no set time --- some times when they are working on it it ask and sometimes it log them off even when they have been idle for only a few min. How can I fix this? Thank you

Hi all, I am currently use FM7 and I would like to update my data by SQL (more than 10000 records) but it seems that ODBC is not available with FM7 and it not exist SQL-pluggin for it. Last think, Iam a newbe on FM. Thanks a lot for you help. regards Edouard

I have an issue that I can't really find any solution for anywhere, but then I havn't turned to the best of resources until now : I'm doing a lot of FMS installs (FMS9 for now, but soon only FMS10), and after installation I create a bunch of backup schedules. One for every weekday (weekly) and one for every working hour of the day (daily). The backups are allways put in the same directory. Is there any way to automate the creation of these schedules so that I don't have to create them manually? It's not so much work when you set up one FMS, but when youv'e set up a hundred...

The "Send Message" dialog window in the FileMaker Server Admin Console states that "Messages are displayed in a dialog that must be dismissed by the FileMaker Pro user." But what actually happens is that the message appears to the user in a dialog window stating "(this dialog will be dismissed in 30 seconds.)". Then the 30 counts down to 0, and the window disappears without any action from the user. Is this a known bug? Is there a workaround? I want the message to persist. FYI I am running on worldcloud.com's java-based Filemaker Server Admin Console. Thanks for any help! John UPDATE: I just added a bug report at FileMaker's forums: http://for…

Hi all, is it possible to import data of the own (hosted) database server-side? In other words: I would like server-side to import from a table into a other table of the same file which is hosted on the same server? Thanks all

Hi, I am getting an annoying problem every time the FM server is rebooted for maintenance, what happens is that the file status on the db's change to an old default. So between 30-40 db's have the wrong open/closed status, this is getting quite annoying as i have to go through and correct them. Can anyone help? Many thanks

These was an old post regarding using Apple macmini as a FM server. I can understand the reasons why we should not take that path Recently , Apple announced a new macmini server running Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard. It has 4 GB RAM and dual 500GB HD. Now the spec looks more like a server spec. We are tempting to use this for the FMSA 10. Has any one has experience on this piece of new hardware ? Xserve is too much for us . We try to avoid using Window Server software

I've had experience with both sever 9 and 10, I was wondering why in version 10 the backup's have separate folders for each scheduled backup? Can this behavior be disabled? Regards, Mike.

Hi, I am new to FMS (10). My old FMS 8 hosts a database and users can connect to it without authenticating. I have downloaded FMS 10 trial and saw an option for Server External Authentication. But what I couldn't find was the possibility to host databases without requiring the user to authenticate (allow anonymous users). Can I do this in FMS 10? Thanks for your reply, Stefan

This may be a silly question, but I appreciate your help in the matter anyway! We currently have hourly backups running of the served database. I'm able to see where the hourly backups are being stored without a problem. But, when I go to find the current database files being served, I go to the location that I initially served them from and it's not been modified since the date I originally began serving it. If you can shed any light on where or how I could locate the actual current file, that would be wonderful! Thanks :)

OK... so I bought FMP 10 Advanced from a guy and also got FM Server 10 Advanced in the deal. No books (I didn't need them anyway) or boxes but unregistered and good... I already am using the FMP 10 Adv. which is what I was after. Anyway... I don't see where I have a need for the Server version myself because I don't run off a server. I just have my database on my single bus. pc. Questions: Is there anything that a small guy would use this for? What kind of value is there in reselling it? I see on FM's site it goes for $3000 Full (not upgrade) which is what is what I have. Thanks guys... been away for a while.

Hi , I am trying to add runtime solution in FM Server 10.for that i am registering that file with (app) extension but it's not uploading that file it's showing message that file is not filemaker database. tell me how to add that run time file.

Hello, I tried to install filemaker server advanced 10 on a windows server 2003 computer. IIS is configured I have Bonjour I have Java 6 I installed my copy of FM10Adv... At the end I check Start Deployment assistant but I wait until this time.... I have the first page but that's it.... In filemaker training series guide they said that a Java bases utility will begin to load but I never saw this!! Anyone could help??

This is not a fax question, but a file server/access problem. I need to learn what permissions need to be set on a PC to allow FM Server to recognize a file that is dropped into a watch folder. We have a PC with a fax server on it (GFI brand). Filemaker Server 9 is on the PC, and when a user sends a fax, Filemaker drops a text file into a watched folder, and the GFI Faxmaker processes and sends the file. Works great. We are switching to a Mac to host the Filemaker Server 9 solution, and when Filemaker drops the text file into the watched folder on the networked PC, Faxmaker will not process the file. Any suggestions as to what I need to set, or how to tie t…

Essentially, IWP started going up and down a few weeks back. It started doing so more and more frequently early last week until finally (and this is when they called us) it wouldn’t come back up again. To bring it back up, they were just pushing the “green gears” button in FMS 9 Admin Console. At the point we started looking into it, the whole system locked up. FMApp access went down and then FMS Admin Console and fmsadmin utility became unresponsive. We did a complete re-install of FMS9. They weren’t even 24 hours and bam, its at it again. Came up for 1 1/2 hours this morning and crashed. Was up again for maybe 3 hours until just now. Crashed. Space on the c: drive …

I am new to Server 10 and want to play around with IWP. How do I turn it on? In my control panel the option for IWP is "greyed" out and not available for me to select? Am I missing somthing basic? I Have FileMaker Server 10 running Windows 7. Is IWP supported in this version or do I need Server Advanced?

Server 10 Windows 2003 VMWare. Database is working fine and being hosted out ok. BAckup was working fine until last Friday. now when I try to do a backup it says permission denied in the schedule pane's status. When I look at the schedule assistant, it tells me the path is valid. I've tried several locations to no avail. The 3 drives on the Server are all VMWare Virtual Scsi disks. IT tells me nothing has changed.... any ideas on how to resolve? thanks in advanced.

I'm mid-process developing a system comprising around 60+ tables with around 250+ TOs. Some of the layouts feature multiple filtered portals on separate TABS - these are the ones giving the problem. The refresh window command (by hand or script) doesn't always reset the cached results for all the related tables on the separate TABS even though they are on the same window - there are 7 TABS, each with it's own portal from a TO. I'm simply doing: Go to Layout Refresh Window [Flush chached join results] This does NOT happen when using the file single-user, but the caching problems occur when opening the file from a hosted point, either FMS or FMP. My fi…

Hello: I'm trying to configure filemaker Server 10 adv. on a MAC running OS 10.4.11. I have Java 5 on the machine and when I click the EDIT SERVER DEPLOYMENT it recognizes Apache as the Web Server but when I type in the Host: 192.168.1.101 on Port 80 or port 591 the "Web Server Test fails". The button next to Web Server is red but PHP is ON. The button next to Web Publishing Engine is red but XML and XSLT is ON. Database Server is button is green with ODBC/JDBC is ON. (see enclosed picture) The Server Status Information button is RED with the error message "An error was encountered communicating with the server". Anyone give me some ideas I might …

We have a database on our server that keeps track of invoices, products, etc., and we wish to install IWP to give access to our clients the status of their orders. Please let me know if the following scenario is possible? 1. SERVER A is hosting our main database, has connection to the internet via DSL (DSL 1), and has a firewall. Windows Server 2003 2. SERVER B would be the a second server that will install IWP and have its own DSL connection ( DSL 2). We want all the traffic to IWP to come from this second DSL connection. Windows Server 2008 or 2003. 3. SERVER B will have a separate filmmaker database that will link to certain tables of our main d…

On FMSA 10 i have a schedule for sending mail and another for make a dayly backup. The console is displaying "running" for both scheduled task. how can i stop this?

I created a solution with FM Advanced 9. This solution uses FM files hosted on a FM Server 9 under Windows XP Professional. The client machines use FM Pro 9 under Windows XP. So far everything worked well and still working normally, but we have to renew our hardware and... I add a new client machine with Windows 7. As the only officially supported FM under Windows 7 is FM 10, I install this version (still in trial period because I haven't bought the upgrade from 9). When I try to use my solution on the FM10/Win7 machine, the process of opening and closing files is very slow (about 5 minutes while it takes only a few seconds on the FM9/WinXP client…

Setting up Server 10 Hi I have used Filemaker for many years but now have to distribute on a server system, I have installed advanced server 10 on a server 2003 system with IIS running but cant seem to get everything configured to run, this is all that is on this server I can get access to eve ...

This might be a silly question, but I could not find a definitive answer for it on the product website.... Does running Filemaker Server eliminate the problem of a user locking a record out from another user? What advantages does running Server have over just sharing a database to multiple users from a single PC?

Hello, Has anybody successfully installed FileMaker Server Advanced 10 on Windows Small Business Server 2008 with Web Publishing? We have successfully gotten it to host databases to FileMaker clients however we cannot get the web publishing, XML, XSLT or PHP to work. We try to navigate to the test pages with the test database we just get HT to be 503 errors. We uninstalled SharePoint and uninstalled FileMaker server and rebooted and reinstalled and still have the same problem. Thank you in advance, Shawn

We have a FM10 database. Someone is offering to host the database for us on a FM8 server. I was wondering if this will cause any problems. Our database was built on the separation model. Here is the scenario: The data file, which has no layouts and very few scripts, on FM8 server; the interface file, which has all the layouts and most script and uses a lot of new FM9 and FM10 features, on FM10 clients.

Here's the situation, need some ideas. Server: FileMaker Server 10 - Hosting Service Clients: FileMaker 9 Advanced, FileMaker 10 Advanced CPU: Windows XP SP3, Mac OSX 10.4 On Windows: FMP 9 - connects fine On Mac OSX: FMP 10 - connects fine but if I flip it... On Windows: FMP 10 - connects fine On Mac OSX: FMP 9 - 'File cannot be opened. Either host is unavailable...yada yada, or the file is unavailable' Any ideas why the Mac would connect fine using 10 and not 9?

I recently installed our filemaker databases on a server instead of a single computer, so the image path no longer works. I am not sure if there is a way to change the image path, or how to even tell what the image path is. Is there an easy way to do this?

Hi One of our customer is doing a backup of the LUN where our Filemaker server is present. Is this ok or might this damage the live files? I have next to none knowledge about LUN-drives and SAN storage. Normally we have a strict policy of NO BACKUPS on live files - but this technician says it's ok - I have no idea? Anybody who knows? (BTV - Specs win2003, FMS9, 2gb ram, 50GB HD, Xeon 2.5GHz) Thanks!

Hi All, I need some feedback on some issues. I have a solution that is inside an Internal Network (My company's internal network) Having web solutions for our costumer can be a bit difficult since they have to log in to the network, via VPN. Is it possible to build web solutions since the filemaker DB is inside the filewall for my costumer and not have them log in to the network(basically having it accessible to anybody)? If this cannot happen, can I have filemaker on a different server, in which I can build web solutions from that DB? How can I effectively exchange data from this 'new filemaker DB' on a different server outside the firewall to the main DB that…

Hi - I'm not sure this is the right forum for this post, but maybe one of you all can help me. Please forgive my ignorance, I'm not a very high level user. I'm running FM7 on Mac OS Tiger. I'm trying to connect to remote files that are open in Server V7 on another Mac, also running Tiger. These files can be opened by another of our staff members on her Mac. The issue is that when I try to open the "File > Open Remote..." dialog in my copy of FM7, the dialog will not open at all. If I bring up the open local file dialog, "File > Open...", this dialog will open, but when I click the "Remote..." button within this dialog, nothing happens. I have t…

I'm getting an error when connecting UPS Worldship to FMSA10. Worldship is running on a PC and FMS is on a separate machine running OSX. I am attempting to set up an import map from my database into Worldship. I am able to get Worldship to connect to the database, however after a few moments I get the error "invalid for import." Any ideas what might be the issue? Maybe a setting from within FMS?

I have scoured the filemaker site and cannot find any tech spec that says Filemaker Server will not run on 64bit win08. Can anyone shed some light into this? We are planning to setup our server as a 64bit Win08 box but I need to make certain FMServer will run on it without any major issues.

If anyone is interested in learning about using server side imports and exports to archive data, I wrote a little blog about it: http://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/2009/07/archiving-data-using-fm10-server-importing-and-exporting/ Thanks, Makah Leal Soliant Consulting http://www.soliantconsulting.com/apps/filemaker/

I'm fairly new to FileMaker. I am running 10 Server on Windows 2003 Server. I would like to use ODBC connections. When I enable XDBC, I see that is enabled in Windows Event Viewer. Right after that event, I see an error: I cannot connect to port 2399. According to some research, it seems when running FileMaker 9, you can simply rename FMSocket_SL55.trc and the error will go away. I'm running FileMaker 10 and cannot find FMSocket_SL55.trc any where. Can anyone offer some help?

I'm wondering if it's OK for me to have files with the same name, running at the same time, but placed in separate folders. It's an inventory management system for graphic designers. There are two companies, but I develop the program in parallel for both companies. The solution has a data file and an image file. Right now, every time is do an update, I have to do the importing, then go into change the name of the files and change the file references. This is a bit cumbersome. It would be easier if I could just run the importing and place each system under its own folder. So, instead of this..... Data/OneDataFile.fp7 Data/OneImageFile.fp7 Data/T…

I have done searches and found that I can delete some folders to reset the admin console settings and go through the process again to set it up. My question is what impact does this have on Filemaker Pro? Are the databases affected? What exactly will I have to redo when I make these changes? I inherited our servers recently, and need to make some changes in the admin console. I have a password that is suppose to work, but I am not sure of the username. I am using FMP 10.

I want to deauthorized and uninstall filemaker server 10 from one machine and install it on another. Is it necessary or possible to deauthorize the install on the old machine before installing on the new one? This is on an OS X 10.5 system. Darren Burgess

Using FMP Server 10 Advanced and would like to suppress some file names on the IWP home page. I know how to do it using FMP client and IWP, but not when the files are hosted on the server.

I cannot find any solution to synchronize FileMaker Server and FMP client(s). Is there any way or script or plugin which is able to do synchronization between server and client? Greg

I'm hoping that I have missed something about storing an icon or graphic into a global container of a file that is hosted by FM Server. the only way I can get the DB to keep these items to is insert them while they a local on my machine then re-share them from the server. Any other tricks or tips for doing this?

Hello, I have a problem with FileMaker Server 8.0.4 on a MacOS 10.4.11 machine. I have set up a program (in FileMaker Server Admin) to run every day to backup the database. It is active, and set to run each day at 19:00. But no backup gets done... The backup is targetted to be done in: filemac:/Server HD/Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Backups I tried everything and I hope someone can point me to some things I need to check / adjust for this backup to run... Thanks!

I have a spare FMS 9 and some spare xServe and OSXs. 1. xServe G4/1.33 DP Cluster Node (Dual Core) 2. xServe G4/1.33 (Slot Load) A. OSX 10.5.8 Server B. OSX 10.5.8 Standard Question: What would be the best combination of HW and OS to have best performance. Greg

I have been running FMS7 on Windows SBS 2003 successfully for years. We are replacint the SBS 2003 server with a SBS 2008 server. 1. I copied the databases to the new server. 2. I installed FMS7 on the SBS 2008 server with the same license key. 3. I stopped the FMS services on the old server and started them on the new server. The FMS server admin shows that the databases look fine and are in Normal status. However, the FM clients cannot see the databases on the new server through Open Remote. I entered the IP address for the new server, but it can't see any DBs. Even if I specify the name of a database, the clients can't open them. Please help.

From time to time with no apparent reason, I find that the FMSA10 admin console seems to stop updating it's status. For instance, it doesn't accurately show the current logged in users (might be data from 2 days back), it shows a script still running from 2 days ago and none others have since run, even though they have (I can see the backups that resulted from a scheduled script, even though the console doesn't show them as having run yet), etc etc. Has anyone else had this issue, and if so, what is the resolution? I am running FMSA10v1 on Windows Server 2003, 4Gb RAM. Thanks.

Hi, I have a database for my medical type clinic, where up until recently I used it on one computer, and just backed up the file on another computer. However now, I have 2 computers running filemaker 8. They are run with internet connections from 2 seperate locations and when the computers are on will require access to the same database sometimes at the same time. I am currently unable to do this as I don't know how to set it up. Both computer locations are run on local networks that I don't run, therefore don't have access to the network settings (even if I knew how) to set up a fixed IP address on both. How do I best connect the 2 computers to the …

I have a script that zips and moves a copy of our database (Thanks Rob Russell) to a second location on a different drive. I've used this at at least 15 of my customer locations and it always works. But at one site the script does not appear in the drop down of scripts. (It is the exact same script with only a path change inside.) Yes, I have put it into the 'Scripts' folder. But when I create a new schedule to run the script, it will not appear in the drop-down list. Weird. Any clues, anyone?

I am attempting to implement a new script that will export data from a linked SQL table (with server level ODBC) into a csv file (created using an XML export with XSLT). The process works without issue when I open the file on my client (from the hosted server) and run the script. However, when I try to schedule the same script to run from the server I am getting an '800' error. I tried writing to the local server, different network locations and get the same result. Hopefully I have provided enough information. I would be glad to add any details needed if I can get to a working result.

Hi, I'm having problems with my solution and would appreciate any help or suggestion that could solve my problem in the shortrun... I have a solution where users can run scripts that requiere a lot of iterative processes with queries. This ends up with 5 or more users using that kind of functionality at the same time and so the fmserverd process gets to 170% of CPU (although the system has 90% idle). This makes the application run slowly. At the moment I am using the pause scriptsept in scripts to help the server so that it does not get to heavy load that easy and I am considering running those processes in the background of users in future versions. I would lik…

I have FM10. Others in the office have FM9. I have the solution on FM server 9 Previously when I used the open remote file script using, I would see the desired file name in the window pop up, select it and the file would launch. All of a sudden today, after clicking on that same file name in the window, I got the message, file not accessable to user, can't open file (or something like that). What gives??? The other users CAN open the file using the OpenRemote function. I will admit I've been having very a slow internet connection for the last week and today discovered that my Lynksys Firewall is the problem so I removed it from the network, and the i…

Is it possible to use webpublishing using filemaker server 8? NOT 8 Advance. Thanks

Currently my Instant Web Publishing URL looks like this: http://111.222.33.444/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=FMServer_Sample&-loadframes Am I able to customize it so it looks something like this: http://myownurl.com/FMServer_sample

I currently have FM9 server and running FM9 on my workstations. Since I'm limited in time, I would like to start slowly with FM10, so my questions are: Can I put up FM10 server up on a new Vista machine and continue to run my current applications with FM9 on the workstations? Then again, can I put FM10 on some workstations, keep FM9 server running and keep using my applications running some with FM9 on the workstation and some running FM10 on the workstation? Mike

I gave up. The FileMaker Server 10 installer is unreliable and I’m sick of wasting two days trying to make it work. I have successfully installed Server 10 on several other machines, and I have experience installing successfully installng prior versions of server on many machines. I installed FileMaker 9 Server in 5 minutes. One explanation I saw is that it doesn’t work if fmserver is in the account name of the computer. Or perhaps there is some kind of Java related problem. I received a little bit of attempted help, but none of it really dealt with the problem I described. Let me try to go over this again: FM Server installer 10.0.2.2…

I just noticed - to my surprise - that Bento import is listed as a server compatible script step. I just tried it and can't make it work. Anybody ever tried this?

Hi, Our clients are installing windows patches on the FMS servers. Before the patches are installed we have to manually close the hosted files so the servers can re-boot. Is there a way to provide a script that will automatically close the files when these patches are installed? Is there a way to add a script to filemaker server to close the hosted files automatically? Our clients need to install OS updates monthly. To do so the updates are installed and the server is rebooted. the files need to be closed to do this and it will be difficult for us to log into each server each time... there has to be a way to add a script to the server to do it auto…

I am trying to get some experience with FMS running a server side script. I am using the mail.it plugin to read emails from some email accounts. When the script starts running is set a timestamp field with Get ( CurrentTimestamp ). While running I test if the script has been running for more than 5 minutes [ Minute( Get ( CurrentTimeStamp ) - MESSAGE::_g_timestamp_start ) > 5 ]. The script is running, but isn't getting any emails into the file. Not OK, but shouldn't the script be stopping after 5 minutes ? Should I run a registration ( of the plugin ) script before doing the rest ? And if so, I did the script run well in the past ? TIA

Hello When I try to start the admin console on FM9 server I get the following message - Safari can’t open the page “http://localhost:16000/”because Safari can’t connect to the server “localhost. - I have tried this using localhost and also the IP number of the server machine. This was working fine when I first installed and it seems it maybe to do with updating Java or the security updates. Does anyone have any ideas how this can be fixed without re-installing

My apologies if someone has already raised this, but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere. Until recently, I managed the twice a day updating of a table with data from a txt file using a old computer acting as a robot to run the import script. A month or so back, I thought I would "simplify" the process by scheduling the update to be done via a server-side script, with the txt file sitting in the Documents folder on the server. That all works fine, except that the date format comes in as m/d/yyyy when it runs on the server, instead of d/m/yyyy - which is how it works when the import was run under the robot solution or from my own client software. I have…