FileMaker Server Legacy Discussions

26 years ago I created a database for my own purpose. I can't remember my password. This was my diary back when I was 15 years old. I was unable to open the file, but using Text Edit from Mac OS 10.15, I had the ability to see some of the text I wrote back then. 9/20/1998 seems to be the last time I opened the file. 10.15 with Text Edit - I see some content (text parts) What are my options here? Who can help here? Thank you for your support.

Back in 2001 I added FM 5.5 to help our business manage daily tasks, and still used today. My problem is we are changing from Windows server 2012 to server 2019 and still want to use our old filemaker for cross reference but cannot remember how to set up FM server to locally host the FP5 data base files. Hoping that there is someone out there who's memory is better than mine Jim

I have a client who purchased a canned non-FM solution and has grown tired of it. Prior to them moving to this, they had a FM Server 5.5 solution that has been backed up, and we have the original 5.5v1 installation disc etc. However, the Database Server will not start up and stay up. I know this is a known error, and I am in place to begin migrating it to FMP Server 12 (re-building the solution). But in the meantime to get the old layouts etc, I would like to SEE the old solution running and running properly so I have reference. Now before you say, use Filemaker 6 or something else, there are 68 total Databases, and FMP has a 50 file limit, thus I require the se…

Hi, there, I know that Microsoft recommends running the DC of a domain in a dedicated machine, and filemaker surely also would best placed on a dedicated host. Still, is it possible to run FM 16 (and the following releases) on a VM running the DC role? Performance is not an issue (it's a small environment), but the cost of an extra server license is. Thanks for helping me out here

Anyone able to provide the installer for FileMaker 5.5v2 Server for linux? It's an RPM, in case you have it it's not on an original CD. I have the CD with 5.5 Server, but would really like to have the 5.5v2 or 5.5r2, I do not remember the exact phrasing. I already have 5.5v2 preinstalled, I'm not able to find the installer itself, and I would like to move to a newer environment.

My company acquired a practice using filemaker pro v6 for record keeping. Although we will not be maintaining this - they need to maintain access. I had some general questions and needed assistance with some issues, being a filemaker noob. Here are spec's as far as I can tell - when I open FMP - it says 6.0v4, - when you go to open a database file, it's appended with .fp5. Looking closer this is clearly a 5.5 server. When I go to open the Filemaker Server Console, the title says Filemaker Server Console for Windows 2000 and reads MMC could not create the snap-in and it does not load. This is target: C:\WINDOWS\system32\mmc.exe "C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Serv…

We've had an XP machine running FM server beautifully for years. We want to upgrade our databases to FP7 (Server 11 and clients) from a cost and functionality standpoint (I know it's still behind the times, but our current system still works well). The machine that we use is a Windows 7 machine downgraded to windows XP (out of the box). I decided it was time to update the system to Windows 7 so I could start working on upgrading our databases at night (and possibly take advantage of Win10 free upgrade if need be). Took all night to upgrade to 7 32bit Professional. I installed server 5.5 on the new Win7 install and it seemed to take ok. I had to disable the security notif…

We recently Converted our FileMaker pro server from Physical to Virtual Hyper-V Server (Server 2012R2). We have disabled VMQs and also Isolated the FileMaker server Virtual machine onto one network adapter. We are now experiencing terrible latency within Database performance. I've tried to rebuild the server and also running Recovery on a few of the Database files, nothing seems to help. Any performance issues recommendations? FileMaker pro is running on Server 2003. Thanks,

I'm looking for Filemaker Server 5.5 but am having a lot of trouble finding it. I'm trying to upgrade my server speed (using a new PC), but still have a lot of old Macs that will only run 5.0 or 5.5. Anyone know where I can find it? Thanks! Eric

Is there anyone who can help me with a serious issue with FileMaker Pro 9 server on windows server 2003, had to reinstall fm server due to power failure, damaged file and forgotten password. Now I can only get as far as the console download page, and bang brick wall. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

A month ago I installed Filemaker Server Advanced 11 on my macbook pro (OS X 10.5.8) just for simple testing. Configured it and tested that it worked as wanted. Then i told it not to restart on reboot and shut it down. Now I cant get it up and running again. When starting the Amdmin Console I get the following message: "The Database server is not available Admin console functionality is limited to filemaker server overview and the log viewer panes To use other functionality, the server administrator must start the database again." I thought that meant the fmserver_h was'nt running, so i started it from terminal. sudo launchctl start com.f…

Pls excuse since I'm asking this question Still I'm using FM Server 5.5 and FM Pro 6 I've hoted my all the files hosted on a FM 5.5 server Some of files I've enables "WEB COMPANINON" AND " REMOTE DATA ACCESS " ENABLED So , If I've an VPN connection setup to access my databasese remotely how can I do After connecting to VPN when I open FM client and go to "Specify Host" gave Server IP, But doesnt show ant files Pls advise

Hi, Sorry I am new here so please forgive me if I am posting in the wrong topic. I have a client who is trying to access the Sas pro database remotely. He is using File maker pro 5.5 He gets an error message: The instruction at "0x01927096" referenced memory at "0x001d5000". the memory could not be read. Click OK to terminate the program. Click on cancel to debug the program Any help would be appreciated please Thank you Prashant

I've written an .NET client using ODBC to connect to a fp5 on a remote FM 5.5 server. After opening FM 6 on the same PC as the .NET client and opening the fp5 remotely, the first action by the .NET client application (whether it be an INSERT or UPDATE) seems to take a very long time (3-4 minutes) before returning an ODBC exception - HY000-Unknown error. The .NET client catches the exception and displays a message box to the user. The user clicks OK and if there are more records in the batch to process it continues with no further errorrs. The outcome for the first record attempted is not certain...sometimes the record is inserted/updated successfully (after a long…

I have an fp5 database on a Windows 7 server running FM Server 5.5. I've written a .NET client to access the fp5 remotely from another PC via ODBC. The PC has FM 6 and I do an Open Remote on the fp5 before running the .NET application...all of the Sharing preferences are configured correctly. This has been working perfectly for several months. Today, when attempting to perform an INSERT, I get "Field restriction error" returned by the ODBC driver and a partial record is inserted (auto populated fields contain their expected data but the data I need to insert is not there). The connection is working and the SQL is being submitted successfully (I can purposef…

I am unable to get FM Server 5.5 to start at all on an iMac G5 with a clean install of 10.5.8 with no other software. I've trashed and reinstalled FM server on this computer and tried several other computers with the same result. I have tried it with a test database with three fields and four records>same thing. I tried it with no database at all> same thing. Anyone have an idea? Have any of you seen the installation disc get corrupted in this way?

I have a couple of errors on the server and I am new to Filemaker. Below are three errors that have reported in the event viewer, application logs. 1. File "Promissory Note.FP5" could not be opened: either allow FileMaker Server to host Single-User files or set the file to Multi-User in FileMaker Pro. 2. File "Receipts.fp5" could not be opened: maximum number of files already opened. 3. File "Credit Card Charges.FP5" could not be opened: a database with that name (or the same initial 31 characters) is already open; please rename one of the files. The only one that I could find information about was #3, and it was more than 1 file that I had to rename it…

Hi! I know it must be unbelievable but I still have a large database running on FM Server 5.5 under OS9! It of coursed crashed and I re-installed it and got it up and running but can'rt find my copy of the updater which I belive is 5.5v4. Anyone know where I can find the updater as Apple have taken off their downloads? Thanks for any help. Peter

I just received an email from Filemaker stating the above updater is available of OSX. Below is the text: ftp://ftp.apple.com/filemaker/Updaters/MacOSX/fms_55v4_osx_updater.sit New in FileMaker Server 5.5v4 -Corrected an issue that could cause FileMaker Server to improperly close a file at shutdown. -The FileMaker Server Open Database dialog box will now handle non-Western filenames. - FileMaker Server will now start even if installed into a folder with a name or path containing upper-ASCII or double-byte characters. Unfortunately, I could not connect to the ftp site. I am not sure if due to problem on my end, our firewall is sometimes too p…

Hi guys We're running an aging PowerMac G5 server for our material/production system that I'm looking to replace. It recently failed due to bad memory, causing database corruption. Thankfully we had a 4 hour old backup to rollback to. We're up and running now but the boss told me to get something new and something that isn't a ticking bomb. At the moment we're stuck with 5.5 server, I know it's old and we're looking into what we can do about it, but that's still quite some time away and I'd like to replace the hardware a.s.a.p. What I've found out is that going Windows is our best bet, but the question is, which version? I've read that newer Windows version…

Hello A customer is running a FM 5.5 Server (PowerMacintosh G5) While Backup issues are mostly resolved, they don't (yet) have a solution if the G5 breaks (if anything goes wrong...) My questions: •is a spare MacMini G4 (configured, all they need is the databases) a solution worth recommending? •did anyone try running the databases on a SSD attached with a USB case (on such a "low level" temporary server? •is there a better solution for a temporary "bring it back to it's feet while we fix the other one"? Thank you and cheers

Wondering if anyone here could help. I'm a teacher and have been using a Mac Quicsilver running FileMaker Server 5.5. My school district had a fire and lost their cache of software, but I still had the Mac. Unfortunately, the hard drive just went out and I'm unable to get it mounted to copy anything off of it...it's shot. I'm trying to find a copy of FileMaker Server 5.5 so I can get my database back online for my fellow music teachers to use for a music competition in early February. I was wondering if anyone here would have a copy available they're not using or could point me in the direction of someone who might have it cheap. Upgrading to the newer v…

We have a FM Server 8.5 running for remote offsite users. We are adding iPads, with a FM11 Advanced hosting one database, for other users in the field to log in to. How can we get to the FM11 database when port 5003 is forwarded to the FMS 8.5 machine? Additional details: Cannot replace FM8.5 server with FM11 server due to budget constraints. Please help us find a solution to access the additional "server" from outside the network. LDAP directory or something like that? Thanks in advance for your prompt solutions!

Hi, I'm using a script to process records submitted via a php Web form -- it sends a receipt to the submitter and sends a report to certain recipients outside the organization. The script starts on the last record and moves backward until it runs out of unprocessed records. Since I'd like the emails to be as instant as possible, I've set up a server script to execute it once per minute, all day long. I don't feel great about this solution though. Is an every-minute script as brief as this one likely to cause worrisome load on the server? The other option I would pursue would be to have the script run on only one record and call it from php after a …

Ok, heres the drum: I bought a series of FM Pro files for managing our business back in 1995, running on Mac OS. Classic at first, version 3.0. At first, we ran the files with FM Pro 3.0 running Mac OS9. Worked great. As the business grew after several years, we decided to add more terminals and run it from a server. So we installed FM Server 3.0, and then bought the upgrade FM 5.5 Server to upgrade it to the newest version. So at that time, (2004) we were running FM 5.5 Server and several FM 5.5 or FM 6.0 workstations. Sold that business to start over again. Kept the same software files, and ran them on FM 5.5 running Mac OS X. After several years, we added …

I know this has been asked before - but I cant find any solution that works. The problem: FM 11 cant see files on FM10 server hosted on same box. It's an iMac running OSX Snow Leopard that needs to go to Lion. But it has FM8 still running on it. FM8 sees the files fine. The newly installed FM11 does not. I tried uninstalling, setting the clock back and reinstalling as described here I tried copying the server.pem file from the FM8 install. I dont have access to any other working installs of FM to copy a known working file. The filewall is turned off. I checked the permissions on the file are set to fmsadmin R&W What else can I try? A cl…

We’re having problems with the Server Admin Console and WPE, described below in a memo from our server people. This server hosts a dozen databases that are in use 24-hours a day, so we’d really like to know what we’re doing before we shut it down or do other maintenance steps to end the flaky behavior of the Admin Console and the hourly WPE error messages we’ve been getting. There was a server incident that apparently started the WPE warning and error messages: a backup script malfunctioned and filled the hard drive with extra copies of various files, leading to the Warning 86 disk full error from FileMaker Server. After we cleaned up the drive and restarted the data…

I am running FM 11 Advanced Server and the server crashed and was rebooted. I have a user that had a file open at the time in 9 Pro, that when she opens it there are some files missing, but when I open it on the server all the files are there. If I try to open the file on another client machine it comes back stating that the username and password are incorrect. Any thoughts as to what I might try doing?

I have a field that is a calculation of the sum of a calculation on a related table. Both locally and when hosted on FileMaker server the correct values are displayed. However, when searching against this field, it works properly when local, and does not work when hosted; as a matter of fact searching against the server version will only succeed if you search for nulls. I am attaching a small sample file to demonstrate the results. The first field "e" is the key to the related table - in this sample case, the related table is just another instance of the one table in the file. The second field "c" is not really used in the sample; in the original applicat…

Hi I'm running FileMaker Server 11 on OS X. I have a Windows app that updates one of the files via ODBC. If this app dies or loses network connectivity etc., the connection still shows up in the FMS Admin Console. Restarting the app just causes another connection to show up in the Admin Console. It does not appear to be possible to get rid of these phantom connections. The same happens if I write a Python script that connects to the file via ODBC. When the script exits, a connection still shows up in the Admin Console. Is there anything I can do about this? Thanks.

please help me : how i can get the filemaker file after it has been removed from server.? i have removed the file from server and i want to know where the files is located after removal. can it be located or not. ?

Hi all, Total novice here. I'm trying to get a super simple database working with a super simple PHP site. It's called TicTacToe - just something easy for me to figure out how this all works. I've got FMServer 11 running, with my TicTacToe database uploaded. I can search for records via PHP, and all seems OK. However, when I try to open my TicTacToe from the FileMaker Pro app (on the same machine as the server) via "Open Remote File", my TicTacToe database isn't listed. Only the FM_Sample database is listed. Both databases are listed in the Admin console as Status: Normal. Have a look at my screenshot - any clues there? Does this have some…

Hello there, I'm having trouble to run the simpliest system script in Perl. My scripts were working before we change our active directory server. Now I'm testing with this simple script and I keep getting a 642 error. use strict; print "Hello world!"; OS Server : OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard FM Server : FMS 11.02 Does somebody know how to fix that?

I have bben able to set up filemaker server advanced and I can securely access (https) my database on line. However, if I try to access the administration console through the web by typing https://www.myaddress.com:16000, nothing happens !!!! Please note that I have directed my apache server (Mac) to change all incoming connections to secure ones (http to https). Thank you....

A client of ours is running with 8-10 seats on v11 and FMS v11 on OSX. At random points during the day the system bogs down with all operators left to sit there with spinning beach balls for a number of minutes. FM doesn't crash. No data is lost. It is just that the system hangs. In a busy environment its untenable. \ The first step that we took was to upgrade the server hardware and it now has plenty of RAM and a solid state drive etc. I don't suspect the hardware. Also, when a bog down is happening operators are able to pull down web pages etc at a normal speed, so I'm not inclined to suspect the network. If I have the activity monitor up on the s…

Hi, Can anyone tell me if it's OK to install Java update 9 for OS X server 10.5 using FMSA 10? Having had trouble with incompatible updates in the past I would prefer to avoid uninstalling and reinstalling the system and FM Server all over again just because of an incompatibility.

Newbie to the forum here. Thanks in advance for the help. I can't get the admin console to remove a database. It will upload just fine but once uploaded, it's grayed out and won't remove. I'm running Server 10 and OS 10.5.4 Any ideas.

I have some rudimentary questions about what a server can & cannot do for my cabinet shop. I currently operate six databases that are hosted on a web server that I rent access to. For $80 a month I could theoretically host up to 50 databases with up to 5 simultaneous users at a time. I would like to add a half dozen client stations to my shop so need to revisit how best to do this. One of the big uses for this server is to pass out tasks and manage documents. We currently imbed PDF drawings in a container field. The major weakspot to embedding is that we cannot archive old drawings here. After we get more than about 30 records with embedded do…

I am trying to change the database and the backup folders but I always get a "not a valid path" message. The folders are on a separate disk. The name of the disk is WHP_FMdata so cant see invalid characters.

FileMaker Server Admin Console has stopped communicating with FMServer 10 on a remote Mac Mini 1.87Ghz Intel Dual Core running OS 10.5.8. Since April 11, it has not written a log entry, or run any of the automatic nightly or weekly schedules. The files are still being served, except that yesterday service stopped unexplainedly for two hours, and spontaneously returned. I cannot currently send a message to users, or close a file or files, or run a backup schedule, or Stop Database Server. I've put the app in the trash and re-downloaded it from http:localdisk:16000, to no avail. I've tried downloading a copy to a local machine using http://serveripnumber:16000, wit…

We are running FMS 10 on a wired LAN. All machines are Mac running v10. For some reason FMS is not showing up as a local host on their network. They are able to access their system remotely, but for some reason not locally. Is this a port issue on their router? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Hello all, I have almost this exact same problem http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/75186-license-conflict-only-on-server-hosted-file/ FM server 11 fully updated, all my Vers. 11 clients can connect but Ver. 10 clients allways get the maximum number of users error message. I have tried all the usual things as well as everything mentioned in the above post, has anyone else experienced this and how did they resolve it thanks. Vincent Update: It happen to Vers. 10 and 11, some clients always get the error others do not.

HI to All, I recently got burned again on the last Java update, so I am being more cautious and am asking the question on OS X Server 10.6.7 update? Is it ok to install..Any experiences yet? I noticed there is many security fixes so I am keen to update. I did notice that AFP volume paths had changed ...I had a lot of trouble with this last update to os x 10.6. I found my volume paths in robot scripts all seemed to change. I hope they will not change again. Any experiences and advice here welcome Regards, Lance

Fairly new to Filemaker and the forums here, so please cut me some slack if this question is in the wrong spot or shows how new I am to Filemaker. Any help is appreciated. We run Filemaker Server 11 and, often, when we run into a situation where one user is trying to access a record that is locked because another user is modifying it. After this instance, many times the record that was locked goes missing (deleted? launched into outer space? I don't know where it goes, but it ain't in our DB anymore). Any reason why this happens? Do I have something set up wrong? Is there a way to prevent this?

I am located in Japan, where we're being hit with rolling blackouts after the bit earthquake. Added to this mess, I accidentally applied the Java update that breaks using Filemaker Admin, so I can't get much done at all. The system is stable and we're able to start/stop the database from the command line no problem, but I'd really love it if I could run a script from the command line, to manually back up files when I know a blackout is coming. Can anyone tell me how I'd run a backup script from terminal?

Running FMSA11.1.0.99 on OSX 10.6.6 Also downloaded the update to 11.2 and tried to run. However, I get the message that I need to quit FMS first. I tried to quit if via Activity Monitor, but still no to. Was working fine and now I'm getting this error when launching... "Unable to Launch the Application." in the log, it shows the following... ugh. please help. thx <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jnlp codebase="http://localhost:16000" href="admin_console_webstart.jnlp" spec="1.5"> <information> <vendor>FileMaker, Inc.</vendor> <description>FileMaker Server Admin Console&…

I'm trying get an "accetable" baseline for my FMS Stats. For example What are the normal Wait Time/Call and Elapsed Time/Call ratios both average and peaks? Is there a white paper on this? My statistics are : My statistics Our server has been notable slower (We've added an extra 40 files recently) also: Is there any recommended ways of increasing server speed, that has worked well in your experience? Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks

Hello All! I'm attempting to set up FMS with Web Publishing, and have run into a big obstacle: My director dropped in and asked if I could assist with a standard installation of FMS on Snow Leopard. It seems he couldn't find a way to pass the web-server test while in the Deployent Assistant. We tried using host 127.0.0.1 (server is local) and port 80 with no luck. I tinkered around with the server/web/DNS settings and everything seems pretty solid. PHP5 is running (which I don't think matters anyways since FMS has its own distribution), as well as Apache and the usual web modules. I must admit, I am new at this position and I do not know what may have previ…

I have a solution that is shared between two users - both of whom need to be able to add, delete, change and manage all the data in the solution. User 2 does not have access to the scripting functions - but can add, delete or modify any data. The solution is stored in Dropbox - in a shared folder. Both users have a copy of FMP 10 installed on their machines. They open the file and log-in as unique users (different access). The problem is that if both change records at the same time, two copies of the solution are created. One is database and the other is database (User 2's conflicted copy dated today). I want to be able to warn the second user that the first user is curre…

Please let me know if this is not the right forum for this question. Background: — We have FM Pro 10 Advanced loaded on a Mac OSX server in NY. — We have a contractor who has been hired to edit database content in Kentucky on a Windows Vista laptop running FM 10 Pro. — We have successfully set up a VPN connection and have remote access to the DB files (using favorite hosts and setting a local/internal IP address for the server network). Problem: When VPN connection is active, internet browser connection slows to a stand still (even though FM works fine) and he must have access to both while editing the DB as he uses browser to gather data entered into th…

I have a number of databases that contain records that expire when certain date fields pass. Can I set a server script to check the date each day and send an email notification if the record is expired? Thanks, Bill

Have folks found that the FMS(A)9 admin client does not work properly on OS X 10.6? We have some FMSA9 servers still running (servers actually running on 10.4 themselves), and I'm trying to administer with my MacBook Pro running 10.6.1. I can login to the server OK using the admin client, but when I go to the clients, database or schedule list, I get the following error: Admin Server Connection Error: An unknown error has occurred. I know FMS(A)9 is not officially supported on 10.6, but I was hoping the admin client would at least continue to run properly. I have cleared my java cache, tried forcing to 32 bit mode, etc. and no luck. Please …

Our IT department wants to upgrade our server hardware and OS. The current supported server OS at the Smithsonian is Windows Server 2008 (32-bit is okay, though not preferred.) Unfortunately, we are stuck on FileMaker Server 5.5 for at least another year. Has anyone had experience with FMS 5.5 on Windows Server versions above 2000? Thanks, bew

Hi everyone - Our organization asked me to upgrade their Filemaker Server 8 Advanced system. I began developing custom Web pages on our domain that used the XML data to update our members' profiles online and to pass those updates to Filemaker. My question is this: We will be upgrading to Filemaker Server 11 and I just assumed we would need to purchase the Advanced version of Filemaker Server (FMSA) 11 - but now, after having done some research, that doesn't appear to be necessary. Since I'm only interested in Custom Web Publishing (CWP) and NOT Instant Web Publishing (IWP) I believe that we don't need the Advanced version - and that saves us $$$! So now look…

I know, the name says it all. We are still using FileMaker Server 5.5 with no plans to upgrade at all. Ever. But we need to move to a new server, and I'm wondering if anyone has had any sucess with Server 5.5 on Windows 2008? We currently use it on 2003, and it works fine. Any guidance would be very much appreciated!

I am running FMP 8.5 clients on a variety of OSX and Windows platforms, with the actual Filemaker databases hosted on FMS 5.5 on OSX10.5. The next Windows machine I get will have to be Windows 7, which means it will have to run FMP11. According to the FMP11 specs, "FileMaker Pro 11/Pro 11 Advanced databases use the same file format (.fp7) as FileMaker Pro 10/Pro 10 Advanced, FileMaker Pro 9/Pro 9 Advanced and FileMaker Pro 8.x/Pro 8.x Advanced therefore databases can easily be shared between these versions." The question is, can I have a client machine running FMP11, and other client machines running 8.5, all accessing the same databases running under FMS 5.5 o…

When I open a FM remote file the records DO NOT display properly. None of the styling or buttons I have applied to the fields are visible. This is a problem with 2 of 3 users. The 3rd user (using same version of FM--9.0v3) has no problems viewing the remote file and records correctly. This is the case when I am logged in as the admin or other user. Is this an FM Server issue or what and how can I repair. Thanks. Pedro

I understand afp and filemaker don't play together too well but what about other services like mail. If I keep mail on the system drive and filemaker data on a separate drive will this be a problem? thanks

The attached screen shot should be clear enough. Client: OS X 10.6.5 on Mac Mini Server: FMS 9.0.3.326 on OS X 10.5.x (not sure) Until last week I was running 10.4.11 on eMac and never had any admin console errors. I have been updating the server for over 18 months. Now I have a Mac Mini and I can no longer run admin console satisfactorily. The attached error message occurs if I try to select Clients/Databases/Schedules or Statistics, but I CAN access the Configuration settings. I have wiped out all the Java caches and plist files to no avail. Even a virgin boot into 10.6.3 yields the same problem. At present I cannot upload a file, close a file or r…

Hello, Our school has used FMP since at least 1999. I've had to do very little to it over the years because it has been rock solid. I installed a fresh version of FMP server 11 on a Mac Mini Server running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) server. Setup went well even though I had to use DVD drive sharing for the first time (since the Mac Mini servers don't have any optical media readers). The server has been running FMP 11 since mid-August with no problems. Once we opened up the lunch database to the public via web publishing, however, I started to get complaints that the server was "unavailable." Looking at the console showed me that web publishing was n…

Hi Forum, OSX 10.4.11 FM Server 9.02.151 In the Admin interface the Database Server is not started and fails to start if I try to click on the icon. What could it be or how could I find out why it fails to start? When I click on "Databases" for example it says "The Database Server is not available." Any tipps? It used to work fine... thanks

Hi to all from a newbie here. Not so familiar with FileMaker either, but felt I must post this, in the hope it will save others from the painful experience I had when trying to install FMS 11 on our brand new XServe (Snow Leopard 10.6.5). The first problem I hit was that the installer wouldn't take me to the Admin Console Start Page. I tried countless re-installs and tried all the suggestions I could find on the web, with no success. One thing I didn't try was a full server re-install of the Mac OS - but with hindsight I'm glad I didn't resort to that drastic step, as it wasn't necessary. Anyway, to cut this very long story shorter, it turns out I couldn't in…

Hello, everyone. Recently, I encountered a situation where a few records in a critical database were being deleted. Unfortunately, I don't know who or what deleted the records. Thanks to backups, I was able to recover them with relative ease, but it really got me thinking. Is there anything built into FileMaker Server that is capable of recording when a record from a database is deleted? If not, is there anything that can be coupled with FM Server (for example, an plug-in) that would allow for automatic logging of this data? Ideally, I would be looking for something that could be turned on and off for individual database (maybe even tables?) and recorded somethi…

Ok, goofy subject line. What I have is a client who has a solution in FM 5.5 that has been running in his office forever. He wants to do some new stuff and what I need to know is can FMS 5.5 and FMS 10/11 run together either on the same server machine or on the same network. They want to use the new version to take advantage of the web implementation, otherwise it wouldn't be an issue and we'd just stick with 5.5. I know, upgrade the whole thing. That's not an option as that is up to the developer of their main package to do the update.

Hey guys! So I have FMS 11 running on a computer, hosting a file. I installed FMP on a new computer but didn't realize one other mac on the wifi network is already using it. When opening the hosted file on the server, I was given the license conflict message. Fine. I uninstalled FM, removed all preference files, etc. started fresh with a different license key. Same problem. I tried all kinds of different things to absolutely no avail so finally I removed FMP from the OTHER mac that already had FMP on it. So now I only have one computer on the wifi network using FMP. I try and connect to the server hosted file and I still get license conflict message. B…

We are in the process of setting up a FileMaker Server Advanced 11 installation. We will be using one or two virtual machines for this, depending on whether we set up the database server and web components on the same virtual machine or different virtual machines. Does anyone have any recommendations on what has worked for them: one or two machines, and choice of operating system (Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008r2, and 32-bit vs. 64-bit)? Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello everyone, I'm working on a java project which have to get informations from text files and have to save them in a Filemaker database. For this, I use Batch in a Statement. There is no problem at the beginning... I create a statement from the connection then i create batch but when I try to execute the batch, the Exception "com.filemaker.jdbc.FMSQLException: [FileMaker][FileMaker JDBC] Batch entry stopped." is thrown. So who can help me please? This is a part of the code: try{ if(current_statement==null) this.current_statement = connection.createStatement(); con.setAutoCommit(false); this.current_statement.addBatch("INSER…

Hi there, I am a Mac user 99% of the time and have very little experience with Windows Server 2008. A company I am volunteering for would like me to install FileMaker Server Advanced 11 on a PC that they have dedicated to run Windows Server 2008. They are a high school and are pretty broke, so can't afford to hire anyone with Windows experience to come in and set it up. Could someone give me a high-level overview of how Windows Server 2008 needs to be configured to work with FileMaker Server Advanced 11. and/or .. are there any documents out there i should look at? I don't have the copy of FMSA 11 yet so I'm not sure if this is included in the documentation.. is it…

So we have an install of FileMaker Server 11 running on Windows Server 2008 R2. The databases being hosted have been configured (in Filemaker Pro Advanced) in the "File->File Options..." dialog to automatically log in using a user name with no password, and the feature works fine when opened in FMPA locally from the file system. Once they are being hosted however, opening them on the server or on client machines across the network results in being prompted for a login. This is the dialog box that you can force open by holding the Shift key while opening the file. We have quite a few deployments like it and have never come across this before, its seems to be something…

Hello FMForum, I'm a beginner at this, so please bare with me. I am currently running FMS 10 Advanced V.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit). (If you need to know, the workstations are running FM 10 Advanced V.3 on windows xp sp3). The problem is after a install of server it tries to start the admin console but an error messages pops up saying "The database server is not available. To edit the server deployment please start the database server first." I press restart, then nothing really happens for about 30 seconds and then another error pops up saying "Unable to start the database server. Please contact your system administrators for assistance." This happens…

I have tried to upgrade a FM11 licence to FM11 advanced, because my customer wants to use IWP. However, after the upgrade I still can not start the web publishing engine. The settings show that the licence is fm11 advanced. Restarting Fm server and restarting the server completely does not make a difference (server is Windows 2003). Anyone an idea what the problem is? Do I have to remove FM server and reinstall? Thanks, Joost Kingma

I am setting up a shared-file solution for multiple user access at a site. When scripting the file 'open' step and specifying the network file path, can I us a 'set variable' step to define the path? Or does it have to be a fixed value? Since the solution will be deployed to multiple sites, the networks are unlikely to be set up identically.

Recently upgraded two laptop users from Vista to Windows 7. Re-installed FilemakerPro 9. Now both laptop users report they cannot access served files from Fm Server 9. When they Open Remote, they can see the Server in the Host window, but none of the served files show up in the available files window. No other users report anything unusual. Never had anything like this before the upgrade and re-installation of FMPro client. Can anyone suggest what might be going on.

What I want to understand is how the work load between client and server is partitioned. I got to use FileMaker Pro 6 for one day, what first struck me was the slowness in displaying some screens. In fact, by opening a screen on the students' enrollment in a course, I had to wait about a minute the display screen that allows entry of the student,while I was waiting a pop up saying "records are not indexed yet to be ordered." The architecture of the system consisted of a server, which was running the server version of FMP 6 and 10 client connected through a LAN: 1) Every time that you want to display data from a record in a table that has not yet been read by th…

Hi, All Here's my setup Win Server 2003 SP2 with FM Server 11 advanced with IWP enabled. Win XP machine with FM pro 11 advanced. When I open a file with FM pro via remote dialog and when I want to publish it, I get the settings Box but the file won't show where the Open Files list is. I check the file as IWP and when I open the Home page in the Web Browser the file is there in the list. I need some clear explanations because I have to make a Demo meeting with a client. One info that might help. All my DB was prepared on a Mac OSX and then uploaded on the win Server, can that be a cause? Thanks for replying ASAP Nikos

Hi, I have a FMS advanced installed and have several databases open and all is working well. What is not working is the IWP. I can't connect in any fashion. The IWP engine is on. I looked in the folder where the iwp_home.html file should be however it is not and wonder if this is the cause. I have tried to connect to the databases using port 591 since that is what the files were set up as. Appreciate any direction or feedback you can give me.

Can anybody help, I need a copy of Fp5 server. My client has called me in to re-write their old solution (on fp5) which in itself isn't a problem however they have just upgraded their server and their fp5 server disc is corrupt and we can't load it onto the new server to run their current solution whilst I rewrite a new solution on 11. We have the key for 5 server but I can't get the programme anywhere. HELP Please

Hello! I've been "lucky" enough to be working on my organization's OLD, OLD Filemaker db. We are an all Mac shop, and within a few months we will be purchasing an off-the-shelf database solution so this issue will be moot then. In the time being however, I'm trying to tweak this thing to be as fast as I can get it. We run FM Pro v6 on our clients, with FM Server 5.5. There are about 10 of us connecting to the database. The issue really showed itself when we upgraded the user's hardware...mostly from old PowerPC iMacs running 10.4 to MacBook (Intel) running 10.6. Particularly when users cut/paste information from a Word doc that has certification docume…

Hi All, I have an XP SP3 machine with FM 11 advanced I created a Virtual Server machine with VMWare workstation and installed Win Server 2008 standard. I then installed the FMS advanced 11 and in the setup I chose the IWP with One Machine option. The problem starts at this point: I get a message saying that the Web Server connection failed. If I skip the Web Server setup I don't see my FMS IP in my FM advanced remote files . If I don't setup the IWP at all, I can see the Server's IP but no Datafiles available on the right side of the table. So, I can't connect to the Database in both cases. Can anyone please give some step by step advice on how to set…

Hi, I feel the answer is right under my nose, but can't find it, also searched. Hosting several IWP databases where I'd like folks to go straight to the database and bypass the "Open database.... with: Guest Account" screen. Guest access is read only, with no password. If I use the database URL after I log in, a later session still takes me to the authentication page. What's the trick? Thanking anyone for feedback. (Advanced Server 10 on Snow Leopard Server)

Hello, What should be the required version of the FmServiceWrapper on FMSWPE? The Master FMS is a V10.0.2.206 on Window Server 2008 and IIS Actually We have a FMSWPE (FmServiceWrapper) File version = 10.0.1.54 Product version = 10.0.1.1 And Date Modified = 11/26/2008 Also on Window Server 2008 and IIs Is that correct? Thank you Alain

I need some of the knowledge floating around this forum to walk me through a seemingly simple task of updating 90+ client machines to FMP11. For the last 6 years I have walked to every workstation to install updates to FileMaker software and I'm getting tired of it taking ALL of my time. There has to be a better way. I'm not a network administrator and I know zilch about group policies. So I need someone to dumb it down for me if it is, in fact, possible to automate/push FM software version updates to clients via the server or startup script. And just for my knowledge, the "AutoUpdate" plug-in that is installed with FileMaker under Edit>Preferences>Plug-ins is…

I saw somewhere that FM Server 11 cannot work on a Vista machine. Is that true? I have FM Server 9 running on an XP machine and I remember being told that that can't work either. Is this true? Mike

I've only done RM runtimes to this point, but one client wants to be able to have multiple users access the database at one time, so am considering adapting the application to an FM Server environment. If FM Server is installed on an OSx machine, can PCs use it? Or do all computers in the network have to be of the same ilk?

After installing Server Advanced 11, I am getting an error message upon opening the Admin Start page that says "The Database Server is not available. To edit server deployment, please start the Database Server first." The dialogue window has two buttons, one says Restart and the other Cancel. When I click the Restart button, Windows gives me a new error that says: "Filemaker Server has stopped working". The Filemaker Server service is running, and even after stopping and restarting the service, the same error comes up. My version of Windows is Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition (32bit) with Service Pack 2. I am using the latest version of Bonjour 1.0.6 and the…

I am having trouble with a client crashing that is possibly unresolvable, but I want to give it a shot. I had to upgrade the user's machine to Mac OS X 10.5.x in order to support an unrelated application. FileMaker 6, accessing complex databases hosted by FileMaker Server 5.5 crashes at random times and especially when printing large monthly reports/invoices. (The print job can be hundreds of pages.) When it crashes, it simply disappears from the screen, like "Poof!" Other users are not affected, and the database is not damaged. I KNOW we have to upgrade, but that is several months in the future. It is a complex custom database that is tied in with Quark xPress …

I am hoping someone can help us. Not sure if this is the right thread. My supervisor just bought a brand new custom built computer and wants to be able to use that computer has his main office machine. In our office we run Filemaker Pro 5. It is run off of our server (server 2003) and all of the computers here (roughly 20) can access filemaker with no problems. His computers specs far exceed that of any other computer in the office except for maybe one. For some reason when we try to access filemaker from this machine it runs extremely slow (not usable) even though it’s hooked up and connecting the same way. We have been working on it on and off for about 3 weeks now a…

Hello, FMForums community. I am completely new to FileMaker, and learning FileMaker just became the cornerstone of my career, so you guys probably aren't getting rid of me anytime soon. Let me explain. I'm a college student (computer science major) that managed to land a job as a systems administrator at a small business. The owner is a close family friend. Since I had proven my usefulness to him on several occasions by keeping the shop's computers up and going whenever there was a problem, when he heard that I have problems at my job, he decided to (finally) take me on-board and let me work for him. Our company buys and sells plastic injection molding machinery…

Anyone else have issues with FMS11 being slower than FMS10? Our current situation is we have a DB with many "Programs", each program can contain many "Styles". It is possible to have 336 styles in a program, but that will never happen, we do have some with 48 styles. Each of these styles can have one or more pictures associated to them which are not stored in the DB but on another server. Only references are stored in the DB. This has not changed since going to FMS11. We are now getting some users complaining that its too slow to work anymore. Is there any fine tuning that needs or can be done to FMS11 or are we hooped? Regards Michael

Hi, I have been trying to enable Web Publishing on a Mac OS X Server running 10.6.4 but every time it runs the Web Server test fails. I have read many posts about this issue on this site and others but unfortunately I have had no success in resolving it. My last process was to uninstall FMS11 then restore the Apache2 folder from a time machine (previously just restored the httpd.conf file). Ensure that within the Server Admin that 'Web' was enabled and that I could reach the OS X Server test page from 127.0.0.1 and the machines IP Address. I then reinstalled FMS11 and tried to enable web publishing again but I still get the 'Web Server Test Failed' page. I have …

Hi guys, I'm a bit of a FileMaker noobie but I've kinda been given responsibility of a FileMaker Server Advanced 11 and recently, for no reason that I can see, databases started crawling. Especially when duplicating records. When I first open a database, I can duplicate near instantaneously and everything is very fast. However, after 10 minutes it slows down, so there is a delay of about 2 seconds per duplicate record. I can recreate this on several machines and it consistently happens. This only started last week, with no changes in network infrastructure or software. All client machines have 4GB RAM and wired ethernet. They are on Mac OS X Leopar…

Hi there, It seems that I have a small problem with a scheduled task... What I am trying to do is to run a batch script which will mount a share, and then execute my filemaker script (which is supposed to export records as a .xls file on the share. The problem is It blocks while executing the batch file... it stays in "processing"..... See screenshot : (Wird ausgefürt = Processing in german) ZOOM here Any ideas ? Thanks a lot in advance ! EDIT : The batch file works perfectly when executed manualy !

Hi, We have a Window VM server under Window server 2008 SP2. On it we install FM server advanced V10. We have around 150 users on it under Filemaker V8.03 and 115 bases. We use Window login name and password (external authentication). This morning the server as a sudden was asking each user for a credential!?! It never did that before. A window update was waiting for a restart. We decide to restart the databases server but we cannot close properly the database from the Admin Consol, no reaction. Everithing restart well after that (with some verifying databases) Any idea why suddenly the server ask for password and if we can correct this without restarting…

Hi, I'm looking forward to upgrade my FMS 10 to FMS 11... ¿Does anyone knows if FMS 11 takes any advantage or is ready for the new technology implemented by apple in snow leopard "GCD - Grand Central Dispatch"? If so, ¿Does it make any difference?

Posting for search engines - delete if not warranted: When installing Filemaker Pro Server or Server Advanced and the following error message appears: "There has been an error connecting to the Admin Console" Check to see that the machine does not have a proxy configured. If it does: 1. Remove proxy settings 2. Restart machine (Java has crashed) Run Admin Console again.

We have a script on the server which opens all of our databases so that they are available via cdml/web pages. There are a couple of databases which we consistantly get the following error when trying to access the database through the web pages: 'Database not Open. Unable to process your request because the database "test_db.fm5" is not open.' The server support folks say that the script opening the databases does not result in any errors. I've tried creating a new script with only the offending databases and having he server support folks run them, but it does not result in any errors

I have a FM server running since March this year. Everything was fine until the server was rebooted couple of weeks ago. The Admin console didn't work since the reboot. Now the clients get disconnected from the server every some minutes. We have another database (Progeny) running on the system and has been working fine. So it seems the problem is with FM only. I reinstalled FM server. The problem persists. The admin console works at this point. Here are some of the related messages: Cline "name (IP)" no longer responding; connection close (51) Client "name" authentication failed on database "db-name" using "opening (fmapp)". Could someone shed …

Hi, I'm running filemaker server advanced 11 on a windows server 2008 SP2 machine with IIS 7. We can easily access IWP internally at 192.168.1.49/fmi/iwp but we are trying to figure out how to make this available over the internet. We did it with FM Pro but in that case the internal address was simply 192.168.1.2:591 (address:591 externally). But, with FMSA if we simply type in 192.169.1.49:591 (or :80) we are taken to the IIS screen. How can we make it so that a port number takes the user directly to the IWP home screen? This will make our port forwarding system work.

Does anyone know if FileMaker Server 11 will run properly on Windows Server Foundation 2008?

Error 643 I'm using a pre-existing ScriptMaker-built, file-resident script and running it from the server. The script's sole step is to export one field from all the file's records into a .csv file and save it to the server. That step is failing and we think it is related to how I'm writing the filepath. Given the directions in FMP and my programmer's understanding of server work we expected to be able to use the Transfer folder as a repository, so we called the filepath "file:/Transfer/. Based on other threads of online discussion, we created a folder on the server called "Documents" inside the Data folder and tried "file:/Data/Documents/" and that failed too. …