FileMaker Server Legacy Discussions

Hi, We are using Filemaker Server Advanced 7.0v3 on an XServe running MacOSX 10.4.1 to share databases both using the instant web publisher and Filemaker client access. We have specified an additional folder for FM Server to pickup databases to share. This works fine until the server needs to be re-started. After a restart there are no databases available (web or client) UNTIL FileMaker server is stopped and then started. This behaviour is reproducible. Is this a known problem? Any work-around? Any suggestions would be welcome.

I've read some posts here referring to scripts, but none completely address my situation. I converted my FMP6Unlimited files to FMSA7 and have them working in Custom Web Publishing. Now, however, I cannot find any way to run my scripts. On my FMP6 server, I had iDo script scheduler setup to activate my applescripts at specific times. These applescripts told FMP6 what script to run, and when. For example, the server sent me emails twice a day to let me know it was still functioning properly. In addition, the system sent emails with weekly reports on Monday night, including information from the FMP6 files. I thought that by moving up to FMSA7 I would find "built in"…

Heres a good one. I look over about 50 Mac's all utilizing an FM7 database for different purposes. One of the machines encounters a problem when dealing with a packing slip database and a material shipped data base. The two are related by a Packing slip number. Each packing slip can contain several items that reside in the material shipped DB. Heres the funny part, one of the work stations encounters a "find" problem with the material shipped DB only. When searching for a packing slip number FM can not find the first two items on the packing slip. Its always two and always the first two items and it will only occur on one packing slip. Every other machine in the…

I am a Mac User, and where I work we are considering moving to filemaker solutions. Right now we only need to use the Instant Web Publishing in the standard PRO. What I am not sure of is whether to host the database on Mac or Windows. I am a long time mac junky, but the place here is mostly windows. I am not looking for a platform war, but any information concerning the stability and Pros and Cons with the Windows version of publishing. Thank you!

I am currently running peer to peer with 5 computers on a poorly designed database (I am not a programmer) - running FMPRO 6.0. Basically, there are 4000 fields in mostly a flat database. The primary use of relational db is to move scans out to keep below the 2 GB limit. Converting to 7.0 seems kind of like getting a vasectomy (a little too permanent for me). What advantages would I gain by installing FMPRO Server 5.5?

I know in FileMaker Server 7, you can Quit FileMaker Server Admin and log out of Mac OS X, and databases hosted by FileMaker Server 7 are still available. What about in FileMaker Server 5.5? Once I use FileMaker Server Config to start my databases, can I quit out of FileMaker Server Config and/or logout of Mac OS X and still have my databases available? What about Mac OS X Fast User Switching (FUS)? Can I 'switch' out and still have FileMaker Server 5.5 or 7 still available?

Do I simply delete the FileMaker Server 5.5 application folder? Or is there more to it? I know this is a simple question, but I can't find any official FileMaker docs on this.

I have worked with the HELP and Admin Guide for FM 7 Server and cannot get the FM Server to register with my OD running on OSX. Anybody had success at this willing to lend a hand? I have made matching entries in Server config and client 'List by LDAP'-"Specify" dialog dc=%subdomain%,dc=%mydomain%,dc=fmp7 (where %subdomain% & %mydomain% are the actual names), however the server never shows up on the client when selecting List by LDAP--no problem with showing up under Local Hosts.

We are using server 5.5 on a windows 2000 network. Have a bunch of files servered out but need to change the passwords on one. Can't find the stupid manual anywhere and my IT guy is on vacation... is there a simple answer.

Hi all!! We have a problem regarding of communications between embebed FileMaker

Just wondering if Server 5.5 can run on Windows XP. I have it on 2000 but would like to know if it can work on XP. If so, would there be a limit to the amount of clients that can connect to a file or the server? Thanks

Has anyone successfully got Filemaker Server to register with OS X Server via the openLDAP? I am not sure how I to extend the default schema to include the ou=Filemaker... line that the read me says I need.

I am running Filemaker server (trial) on a Windows 2003 machine. I copied the databases in the database folder and Filemaker Server see's them and he says they are open. Now when i try to open the DB from Filemaker pro 7 (also trial) on thesame machine it only see's the sample_configuration and not the files i added. I enabled the option to see folder i don't have right's to figuring that may help but the're still invisible.

I am setting up a dedicated filemaker server machine to be attached to a windows 2003 network. Plan is to host 5-7 filemaker pro clients directly attached to the office network. I plan to use a dedicated machine with windows xp pro. Sample setup to have 512 MB Ram, 2 40G harddrive, network card, CD Rom. I plan to setup up static IP on the network and turn off file sharing on the dedicated filemaker machine. Can I run the filemaker server and host the files on hardrive 1 and backup with automatic backups to harddrive 2. Or should I back up differently such as tape drive or cd. comments appreciated. Thanks

I have a server with partition C and D drives. I want to place all my FileMaker files into D drive( data drive), C drive is where the FileMaker Server installed at. When I place the shortcut to the folder in the D drive, I found that files in the D drive could not opened. According to the documentation, it should be okay to place the shortcut to the C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker Server 7DataDatabases But why is it not working for me? Jackson. :D

I serve a small relational database (6 files) from a Power Mac G4 running FMServer7v3 to a small number of Mac OS X 10.3.9 local clients running FMPro7v3, and have never had a problem. That is, until yesterday, when the Server stopped Serving and I went into FMServerAdmin to diagnose. In the Configure tab, under Databases, it lists all my files, but they remain Closed... I choose to Open Databases... and for a nanosecond, the status changes to something else (not enough time to read), then goes to Closed again. For the life of me, i can't get Admin to Open these files! The only thing that changed that possibly could have messed with anything: i installed OS X…

Here is our setup: We have 3 G5 towers running 10.3 with 1 gig of ram, and 1 G4 with 10.3 running our FileMaker 5.5 servers. We have about 250 databases spread accross the 4 servers. Our network address scheme is 192.168.0.0 / 255.255.0.0. (aka multiple subnets to broadcast accross) Here is the problem: Users report slowness throughout the day, even when the servers are not doing a backup. Common problems are: -long time to perform finds -clicking buttons that run scripts and getting the Mac OS "spinning wheel" -just browsing through records -entering in fields and tabbing accross to the next field In addition, sometimes it can take several minute…

I've looked everywhere and can't seem to find how to remove 5.5. Any help? Thanks, ricardito

I have an xServe G5 running OS X 10.3.8 Server. I have FileMaker Server 7v3 installed on this xServe, and I want to make FileMaker Server accessible to my LAN, but not to my WAN. I am running OS X Server's firewall, and have been unable to open TCP port 5003 (FileMaker's port) correctly for LAN traffic. I know that the FM Server is working, because I can connect from my LAN just fine when I turn the FireWall off (using the LAN IP). In OS X Server's FireWall, I click on Settings, then Advanced, and click "plus." I entered the following: Action: Allow Protocol: TCP Service: Other Under Source, I entered: Address: 192.168-net (for the LAN) P…

Hi all, I have a client who installed FMS7v1 prior to my arrival on the scene. She installed onto XP Professional SP1. I showed up, tried to use SAT to configure the server, and got "Login Failed". She says she made no configuration changes and definitely didn't configure for External Authentication. Another symptom: even though databases are in Databases folder, and in use by Server, they don't show up using open remote from a client machine - in fact, the server itself doesn't show up even when entering the IP address as a Favorite. All machines are in the same Domain workgroup. I uninstalled 7v1 using the CD, reinstalled 7v1 and applied v3 patch with 7 s…

We are having a HUGE issue with FM Server and Server OS 10.3. Here is the setup. We have a G4 server with Server 10.3 and FM server 5 (newest thats not 7) We are running PCs with XP as the clients. Every time the we go into script maker or define fields within a few hours the program slows down and then damages every file. This never happens on a windows server. The answers form FileMaker are "It shouldn't do that" Any ideas.

I just paid a visit to a client, and the Scheduled Backups were all functioning except the ones that went to an external FireWire drive. When I examined the settings, the name of the drive in the settings had somehow changed from "Jupiter" to "Jupiter 1". I believe the drive was unmounted at one point last week, and that's the only thing I can think of that has been out of the ordinary with the server. Does anybody have any clues, or has anyone seen this before? Server 5.5 on OSX 10.3.8 -Stanley

Has anyone seen Error: 20500 It appears immediately after the following script step in a Windows batch file. I cannot find a description of this error number. fmsadmin backup file.fp7 -d C:file.fp7 if I use fmsadmin backup file.fp7 the file will backup to the default directory. Thanks for any help.

I hope you guys can help - I have built a DB in FMPDev7 and set my users so they can create new records. If I open the DB locally as each user they can make new records, if I serve the DB using FMPDev7's built in server they can still create records - but when I serve the DB on full FMServer7 ALL my users loose their ability to make records, including the Admin user - the DB becomes write only even tho I have the permissions set right on the DB itself

I am running a relational database in FM Server 5.5 on a Windows 2003 Server. Global fields keep reappearing after i have cleared them via a script and closed the file. A relationship then reopens the file and the global field references are back. In the document preferences i have also set to clear global fields on startup and close. has anyone got any ideas? I have also noticed that the filename when reopened via a relationship is in capitals whereas the true filename is not!

Ok, sorry about this question, but I wanted it to be sure before I go on a learning quest! Is it possible to create a fmp 7 database with a fmp 7 server but have the terminal computers not running os X? Half of my school district is moving to os X and the other half is not becuase of hardware issues. I would really like to use 7. And converting from one version to the next really screws with the scripts I write. Any suggestions?

I'm pretty sure this will have been covered off in (multiple?) threads here, and I apologize for that but I searched the forums and nothing jumped out at me...anyways, if anyone can give me a few tips or point me in the right direction, it would be most appreciated! We are getting a new Xserve that will be fully loaded and we are setting up a FM Server that will be gathering info on medical patients

Hello. We have FMS5.5/Win2000Server and 10 users on FMP6/WinXP. They all open files via Host. The files on FMS get damaged quite often. When I look in log of FMS I see the message: "usersname forced to close connection". Does anyone know why it is happening? Is the user forced its FMP to close connection or FMS forced the user? How to prevent this from happenning again? Many thanks!

I'm trying to put a button into my database that allows me to open a file in Test:Path. However, it doesn't seem to work, nothing happens. I'm using openurl, anybody know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks PS This is FMP7 on OSX.2.8

Hello, I have auxiliary files and the primary file on my filemaker server 7.0. I only want my user to see the primary file. I don't want them to open my auxiliary file, especially my user logon and password file. How do I do that? Thank you. Jackson :

Hi all i have a litte question for ya here on work we are getting that new apple mini (1 Gig ram soon and were going to run a file maker server 6 on it. and it wil only have 3 or 4 machienes tallin to the filemaker server . But is it nessery to have another mac or pc to share the internet connection and dhcp server or will that one mac mini be enough to take the load

I have just had to update our server to OS X, but as yet all our terminals are running OS 9 or 9.2. I can get FM server running in OS X but it doesn't actually seem to be hosting any databases, when I try to open one on one of the terminals it says that that terminal will be hosting it. So I tried to run FMServer through Classic, but it just gets as far as 'loading TCP/IP' and then it says that these have 'failed to load'. Is there an incompatibility between having FM Server running through OS X and everything else on OS 9 and/or how can I get FM Server to run through Classic? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am fairly new to both Macs and FM, so am reall…

Does anyone know why TCP/IP should not work when using Server 5 in Classic on OSX Panther 10.3.5? In the FM Server Admin window (Networking) TCP/IP is greyed out and inaccessible (as is TCP/IP / Appletalk) so Appletalk is the only option. All clues gratefully received. Mike

We currently run FileMaker Server 5.5 on an xServe G4 1.0 GHZ dual processor running Mac OS X Server 10.3.8. Approx 12 Clients run FileMaker Pro 6 on Mac OS X 10.3.8. I run Developer 6 edition. We host ~ 30 - 35 databases. My question(s): Can changes be made to layouts while a database is hosted via FileMaker Server 5.5? In addition to making changes, can a layout be duplicated and edited while a database is hosted via FileMaker Server 5.5? I'm assuming a new layout can be created in a hosted database, right? Also, in any hosted database, in Layout mode, I notice Layouts -> Set Layout Order is unavailable/greyed out. Why is that? Can Layout Order no…

I'm using FM7SA on a XServe 10.3.9 to host a website with a large database. I can do the job with PHP, but things are getting slowlier every week. So I want to symplify my PHP code, but therefore I want to use a script that I've written in de FM7 database file. I want to run this script every 15 minutes or so. A nice way would be by triggering the script via a cron job. Is this possible? Of course I could run the script on a client computer, with an interval of 15 minutes, but when I reboot the server, the clients loses the connection etc... so via a cron job on the server would be very nice!

I finally got around to installing FM Server 7 that I received from last year's developer's conference. I decided to use a machine that wasn't being used for anything useful, and had all of the system requirements needed. It had a LOT of junk on it, so I decided to reformat and reinstall Windows Server 2000 on it. That went ok. I then installed FM Server 7 on it, as a "complete" install. That went ok too. Whenever I try to start the FileMaker Server Helper service, it keep popping up the error "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion". The service was set to automatically start, but it never has "st…

Hi everyone, i have about 10 database files in our win2000 server and when i go to the hosts dialogue box the file is not there but every other file is. The database works perfectly but for this one file. Therefore other users in our company cant open the file as it says the host cannot be found. It used to work ok and i cant understand why it has stopped showing up. I have restarted the server and that makes no difference. Does anyone know where i could be going wrong? I am only average experience and your help would be very much appreciated! Thankyou

I was just wondering if I have to have all the databases located under the filemaker server folder in order for them to run? I have limited space on the C drive but lots of space on the D drive. I tried to install Filemaker Server in the D drive but it installed on the C Drive. Can I tell Filemaker server to look for the databases in a folder on the D drive or Do I have to run them under the server folder in C? Thanks

Server : FM 5 Server (Windows NT 4 /w SP6) Client : FMP 5 (Windows NT 4 /w SP6) Can I write a batch command file to create a compressed database copy? If it is possible, what command it is. Thanks.

Hi there, i'm wondering if any one can advice me on this subject. Some one told me that os x was enhaced for tcp/ip transactions and that fm 7 is also faster for the same issue, all of this compared to fm 5.5 and os 9.2.2. I have to develop a filemaker solution for a restaurant, i'm currently familiar with filemaker 5.5 pro, filemaker 5 server and filemaker 5 developer. I'm also currently using filemaker 5.5 pro and server 5 for a solution running under os 9.2.2 and have noticed that when in use of portal records in any file the transfers from client to server take too long. (server cube g4 @450 mhz , 768mb ram) (client pb g3 @400mhz bronze keyb with 386mb ram)…

Hello, after a filemaker server crash, i would like to restart fms. but i only get the message: "Unable to start server - Another instance of FileMaker Server is already running. Requested command has not been executed." According to activity manager, the fmserved process is still running. I stopped both, the fmserved and the FMServer config process. Trying to restart, i get the same result. Is there an other fms process i have to quit? Or does anybody know how i could restart filemaker server 5.5 after a crash without restarting the computer? thanks franz

I need to run the same script every day at the same time automatically. Is anyone knows if it's possible to do it with Filemaker Pro 7 or Filemaker Server7?

Dear Colleagues, I'm installing FM7Server on Windows 2k Server. I have a database on FM5.5 Pro. The question is: How can I use this Database for connect by Internet Explorer?. I need to design an special interface in ASP or PHP? Many thanks for your assistance... Best Regards, Gustavo.-

Filemaker Server Web Publishing Administration Console, Filemaker Server Configuration page. Hi All, searched the forum for a hint to this problem but came up empty handed! I am running the Custom Web Publishing Engine on a Mac G4 running OSX Server 10.3.7. The Filemaker Server 7.0v2 is running on a Mac G5. The Overview page on the Administration Console displays the Web Publishing Engine and Filemaker Server IP addresses correctly. When I go to view the Published Databases none of them appear. I have double checked that the group assigned to each database is "fmsadmin" with read/write privileges and the owner is "admin" with read/write privileges. I have…

Is that true that File Maker server needs a dedicated mashine to run ? What happens if it installed on a sever with the following characteristics: Server Model

We currently run FileMaker Server 5.5 on an xServe G4 running Mac OS X Server 10.3.8. Approx 12 Clients run FileMaker Pro 6 on Mac OS X 10.3.8. I run Developer 6 edition. We are making the move to FileMaker Server 7 and FileMaker Server 7 Advanced this year. My question is this. Can I install FileMaker Server 7 and FileMaker Server 7 Advanced on the xServe so the server can host fp5 and fp7 databases. This would be temporary for migration/troubleshooting purposes, and the fp7 databases would not require remote WAN access during this temp migration/troubleshooting phase. My reasoning is, short of getting another FileMaker Server machine, how else do I have the …

I am getting ready to upgrade and migrate to FM7 and sent my server hardware/software requirements (I was planning on using a two machine configuration, server advanced on one and the web publishing core etc. on the other, with windows server 2003) to our network system administrators. They are proposing using VMWare. I searched the techinfo on Filemaker and these forums, but wasn't able to find any information one way or another. Does anyone know if there are any problems doing this? I just want to make sure before we move ahead. Thank you, Janey

I am running FM Server 5.5 on a Mac G5 with OS X Server, a SCSI drive, and 256 MB RAM. We have a solution with 20 files (about 20 MB total) and on average about 6 connected users. Whenever I start the server, things run very fast at first. Then as time wears on, the server slows down significantly. I have linked the slowdown to the number of users logged into the system. With 3 users logged in, everything runs very fast. Once two more log in, and there are 5 total users, everything slows down significantly. I know for a fact that filemaker should have no problem running such a small number of users, there should be no difference between 3 and 5 users. Furthermore, t…

I've installed Filemaker 7 Advanced Server and recently updated to 7.0v3. Filemaker 7 Adv Server is currently residing on a Windows 2000 sp4 member server. I have set the options in Filemaker Server to use external authentication. I set the directory settings and the event log says it registered with the directory successfully. On the domain controller, i created an fmsadmin group, added my network login (i belong to admin group), have a filemaker file from our current version 6 system (filemaker server 6 is on a different server than 7), added the fmsadmin user in the file security with full access privelage set with the fmmapp extended privalege set. I installed F…

Is is possible to close just a single database that is being served using FM Server 5.5 using a shell script? We've managed to use shell scripts to close and stop the whole FileMaker Server 5.5 but I wanted to know if there was a way just to close a particular database and not the whole server? Thanks.

Hoping someone knows a workaround for the fm5.5 "only host fm dbs in the 5.5server folder" ... I would like to keep our files in a different folder. Is that possible?

Has anyone set up this configuration? We can make the FX.php-FMP6 Ulimited work on an individual computer but can not get it to work with our server. Would anyone have documentation to help us out. (company does not want to upgrade to 7 yet) Thanks for any info.

Hi, Small network (4 Mac OS X + 1 PC Win XP) Files served through FileMaker server 7 (latest update) on Mac OS X 10.3.8, Permissions are correct. On client when chosing Open remote in the left pane I see the server's name and IP adress. No files appear in the right pane when I click on this server. As a test I served some files with a standard FileMaker 7 on a different computer and they show up fine on the other machines. Any ideas. TIA, Luc

I am very new to FM... [color:green] There is FileMaker 4.1 database running on Mac server.They want me to move it to Windows 2003 server. Will it run OK ? Do I need anything extra to support it ?

Hello. Installed FMSA 7.1 and having problems with locating the Web Publishing Console. My solutions host fine for client boxes that have FM Pro (via Host)but I cannot fine anywhere how to get client boxes to access FM solutions on the server via Web Browser. Apache is running, but when client browser goes to server ip, only default apache index files show up. Additionally, I am trying to upgrade the Web Publisher to v3 but installer won't proceed because it says "cannot proceed web publishing service is running". I don't see anywhere in the server panel of osx that this service is there or even running. Any help or guidance wound be greatly appreciated.

Under Security I have Client Authentication set to FileMaker and External Server accounts. In the old version of FMS 7 there was an option for local or domain authentication, it's gone. I want local authentication, as this server is also our email/file server and has all the users we need that need access to the database. This server cannot be an LDAP/AD server because it's in a department network, and the admins don't want us messing up their network. Consider the user bob who's OS level user has been defined on the same server running FMS. His group is staff. When I set up the databases accounts, specifically an external account with group set to staff, bob is not …

We have a FM7 database being hosted with FM7 server advanced. In the last couple of weeks we started having problems with new tables and fields. New fields we create won't index. Finds fail and relationships based on these fields fail. At first I thought we had corruption problems. I took backup files that were created after out problems started and loaded them on an OS X server using FM 7 Server Advanced and the files worked perfectly. Our next step is to remove the FM7 installation and reinstall. Has anyone heard of this kind of problem? Could the network and firewall be part of the problem?

We hosted FMP5 file on the server, as per my understanding, those database has been opened by FMP5 server otherwise user cannot see those files on their workstation. Whenever user open a hosted file, on the server event log, it said xxxx.fp5 was opened by username. Does it normal? Or I mis-config the FMP5 server and make this thing happen?

Hi All, I am running Server 5 on windows XP. Recently, i believe after installing XP Sp2 my server is CONSTANTLY pausing and resuming writes on all hosted files which is forcing disconnects to all users with the files open. This is causing alot of problems obviously. The messages are taken from the event log. What's up with this? Please help. Rich

I have a Windows 2K3 server and Filemaker 7 Server Advance with Web publishing enabled and working correctly, and all of a sudden a connecting web client machine gets an "Unknown Error 802" and can't connect. The authentication to the IIS server is anonymous(without Windows Authentication checked). When I restart the Filemaker server service everything is fine again, for a while. Also, the normal Filemaker Pro 7 clients can still connect without a problem. Help!!!

Hey there, We have just installed Server 7 on a local PC and serve a db to three clients (PC and OSX). We are using a wireless apple network. The server seems to shut down regularly (every three hours or so) after sending a notificaiton to all clients saying "closing all files". Any suggestions? Thanks a bunch. Stephan

I have been serving a large number of files from a RH7.2 box without problem. However, two weeks ago my main appn. db file has started taking 30 seconds to open for my clients (all Win2000/XP). It has been culled of images and reduced in size (via an export/import clone) from 400Meg to 300Meg and I am still getting the same poor response. The file has a lot of relationships but no calc/scripts invoked upon opening. All other files on the server (bigger ones too) open in a trice. After the 30 seconds of <-^^-> arrows it opens up and operates normally. Has anyone else had such issues? Does 30 seconds ring any timeout bells? (I am servin…

I don't know how many people run into this - but when transfering files the permissions often get changed such that server cannot open a file. My most recent circumstance of this involves server 5.5 on the latest X-serve using ssh to remotely access the machine. I needed to move a file to my local drive to make some password changes. I moved it back by uploading it to the web, ssh'ing into the server, using ftp to download it to the proper directory. Server couldn't open it because the owner had been changed to the ssh account login (not the same as the profile the sever had booted on). I was able to check the permissions and fix it - using chmod - and other group/owner v…

My client has moved all thier machines to osx in the office. fmp6.0 clients fmp5.5 server I had an old script to duplicate a record and its related items via an export/import. It was a temp file that ended up in the programs root folder. But now with osX it does not seem to happen. anyone

Greetings, I'm having a problem where records seem to be being deleted for no reason. Our customers records are kept in a main file - "customers". When a user wants to view the customer's record, a single record is imported into a separate file called customer inquiry. Transactions for the customer are imported from our transactions file into a clone used only for inquiry and some reports. These transaction records are displayed in a portal in the customer inquiry file. Lately, and only on occasion, when a user is viewing customer information in the inquiry file, the record disappears - the layout remains, but there is no data. The users are not navigating…

I'm running Windows 2003, FMPro Server 7, Sequelink Client 5.4, MDAC 2.8. I've setup a database for ODBC publishing by using the ODBC Data Source Administrator. Filled in the server host = localhost, server port = 2399. When I do a "Test Connect" I get the following Sequelink Error 2306. "[DataDirect][ODBC Sequelink driver][sequelink Client]TCP/IP error, connection refused". Has anyone else seen this error? Thanks

Since Filemaker website doesn't have any information about Filemaker Server 5 anymore I'm not sure what Server OS is supported by Filemaker Server 5. Does anyone know if fms 5 can run on Windows 2003 server? thanks in advance, Dan Gronwald [email protected]

My company is currently using FM6 and is thinking about upgrading to FM7 Server. I'm currently reading a lot of documentation on the subject because I'll be responsible for part of the migration, and for the serving part of the DB. All the documentation I've read so far mentions that Custom Web Publishing supports both Apache and IIS, but it only mentions Apache on Mac OSX and never on Windows. It's not that I don't trust Microsoft or anything when it comes to webservers, but I have a clear preference for Apache. Has anyone tried serving the DB with Apache on Windows, or can it be done at all? Thanks.

Hi, all. I am a newbie here. Just installed server 7 on a windows XP machine, from client side, can only some time find this server machine but not hosted files. if I installed the server on a mac, it works fine. does the firewall or anti-virus will make a influence like this? any suggestion will be very appriciated. imaccn

I'm having a weird problem. I'm having issues with our server crashing. For some reason, 2 or more times a week, I come in to the office and the filemaker server is not responding. The actual network server works fine, and the fm server appears to be working correctly, but if I run the launcher file to access the files in the fm server, the computer is not able to reach them, and even when I manually go to the "open remote" feature, the server does not show. The only way to access the files is to manually stop the server and re start it again. The event log does not show anything unusual. Anyone have any idea of what could be wrong?

I'm upgrading from FM Server 5 to 5.5v4. Is there any advantage or disadvantage to changing from OS 9.2.2 to OS 10.3.7 at the same time? Server is a G4 Tower (733mhz) with 384MB of ram.

Hi, I'm hoping someone can lead me in the right direction to a solution. I've got a FM server with remote cllients (10 or so) all over the country and these people will be toting PowerBooks with no access to a network, creating records (up to a few hundred fields) which will then be uploaded to the server when they can gain access to a network. Is there any store and post later solution out there? I would think this would be a valuable thing but I can't find any information about it

I had to re-install FM server 5.5 on our g4. Now it says it can't start FM server because the event log is missing. I have the old log in the server folder. What am I missing here?

In FM 6 if you wanted to make an alias to a database on a server, you actually had to create a new database that ran a script that opened the hosted file and then closed itself. Do you still have to do this in FM 7? Is there a way to alias a hosted DB without creating an additional db?

I'll start by saying I'm probably not the one that should be setting up this machine, however, I am. Drat. Setup OS X, one machine, FMPS and advanced. Every Mac I've went to I can enter the IP address and see the default Apache screen (every one but mine). I can't see it on any PC, get an error, same as on my Mac. No IP address conflicts exist. Not sure where to start looking. Just as a note I can Timbuktu to another machine from mine and Timbuktu from that machine and into the server fine, I can't Timbuktu directly into the server from mine. No Timbuktu license conflicts. Any direction or suggestions would be appreciated.

I have a customer who is migrating from a linux based FM Server 5.5 to Windows. Are the database files on the server compatible? Can I just move the .fp5 files from the linux box to the windows? (Yes, I've got the Server service installed on the win boxen) I saw a post about a mac->win migration and that said to watch for relationships since the machine name and IP will be changing, true here to, correct? Also, is it normal for the second server, running the same license as the linux server to not start until I stop the service on the linux box? Err Code 50, I believe? Thanks Jeff

Hi All, Have this curious problem. I've set FMServer Task Scheduler to backup automatically to a hard drive called Z:. It always fails, and the Event Viewer shows that the drive cannot be found. The server is W2k, FMServer 5.5. The mapped drive is shared by WinXP Pro. I've tried setting the backup to the local C: drive and it works fine. I've also tried changing the Mapped drive to another letter but still doesn't work. The Mapped Drive appears fine in My Computer and I can copy and move files in and out. Any ideas on what I might have missed? Thanks in advance! butchm

PROBLEM 1 - LICENSING ISSUES: We host FileMaker Pro databases with FileMaker Server 7 Advanced. For a few months now numerous Macintosh (only) clients will get without notice "The maximum number of users...". We've extensively checked every serial number of every copy of FileMaker on all networks and all are unique. Sometimes the recipients of the message can simply reboot their Mac and get back to work. Others must wait for hours or even a full day for the issue to clear. If we reboot the server the problem clears instantly for everybody. That

I am not happy with the way that FM displays the results from a database search or study on the web interface. Some of the fields are a little crunched up. What is the best way to solve this issue? :confused: :confused:

Just a gripe...all the work to get FM7 server out, and still no way to schedule within FM server scripts to run witin FM databases. One would think it would be a SIMPLE matter to have added the ability to schedule a database file and script name to run. But just an observation. Anyway, I have a script that I want to run every 30 minutes. I really can't use the plugins Events or Activator since neither will run as plugins directly within Server. And I don want to have my FM databases open on another client machine just to have these scripts run. Is there a way to have one of my database files that is being served up by FM Server 7 run a simple little script every…

We are currently using FM pro 6 with FM server 5.5 on OSX. Our database is desined to download a file from a webshared folder on a computer using os9. For instance, when i click on our button to download a resume, it goes directly into my download folder, and then opens for us to view it. lately however, it down loads but when you look at it it's a random name of a person we looked at earlier that day, but not the persons resume. so thinking that I screwed up in scanning, I go to the main computer which hosts this file and check out the file. it's fine. everything is the way it should be. however back at my computer, I'm looking at a totally different file. HOw…

I know that FileMaker comes with the great ability to be able to send and recieve xml. PHP has the ability to send XML. With FX.PHP it is possible to connect PHP with FileMaker. I'm, however, not sure if FX.PHP requires a FileMaker server. This should not be a problem to me IF Filemaker Server 5.5 has the ability to send and recieve xml. I am a newbie to Filemaker and have not yet been able to find any info on this. The set up I am using: i have a MySQL database which i want to connect to a Filemaker 6 Unlimited database (to keep them both in sync with eachother). What i am asking: - Has Filemaker 6 Unlimited the ability to send recieve xml? - If so:…

Greetings, I am new to setting up FM databases and server etc.. I'm Setting up a FM 7 server on a W2k3 server . I have set up a bunch of test databases to test the permissions etc... I set up the external authentification via AD, which wasn't working till I did the update, but now it is... at least sort of. I have followed the directions from the help and online files for setting up permissions on the databases. It seems to work as far as seeing the DB's that the users are supposed to see and have access to, but.... no matter what priviledge set I use..including new ones created, users all have full access to the databases.And ones that they don't see, if…

I am trying to use the command line tool fmsadmin to do a live backup of a file hosted on FMServer 7. Here's the command I tried: >fmsadmin backup filename.fp7 -d ../backup But when I run this I am prompted for a password. I tried the password I set for connecting to the server but it doesn't work. Neither do any of the full access passwords used in the file. I am running the command on the server while logged in as a member of the fmsadmin domain-level group. My eventual goal is to script the backup of a file then rename the copy, move it back to a data directory and then open it, all from within FileMaker. While my ultimate goal may not be possib…

Hi all, I'm trying to determine whether to use OS X or Windows Server for hosting my databases. (Using FM Server 7 Advanced and custom web publishing) Does anyone know if FileMaker databases created in Windows can be hosted on OS X - or is there a conversion procedure required? Thanks in advance.. Cheers

I'm trying to install FM Server Advanced (the Web Bublishing Tools and Engine) on my Mac OS X 10.3.7 box (it is up to date, and has Java 1.4.2 Update 2 installed). I get an error message saying that Java 1.4.1 Update 1 is required, and cannot proceed. Java 1.4.1 Update 1 was released by Apple Sometime in 2003, long before Server 7. Java 1.4.2 Update 2 was released 9/24/04, and I'm sure is part of all Mac OS X updaters. Can anyone provide a clue on what I need to do to install this. I can't find anything on FileMaker's pathetic site. Was trying to do this without using a chit. TIA. Marshall

Install Filemaker Server Pro 7, After loading FileMaker Server 7, we are then loading FileMaker Server pro 7. When we go through the loading process we get prompted to put in "CD #1". We assumed cd #1 is the Server CD, which we found out that is not what it is. We then put back Server pro cd and it still prompted for CD #1 ... We were shipped only FileMaker Server 7 and FileMaker Server 7 pro... Two cd's in all.. Can somebody shead some light on what we are missing or doing wrong.. the server is Windows 2003 server, we also have VMware loaded on it.

I work in a hospital, we have several clients running Filemaker. When running this program on the new subnet we have problems connecting automatically ("%insertpathhere%Filemaker Pro.exe" %insertserverhere%%insertdatabasehere%.fp5). We get the error could not be found. But other clients connecting directly to a mapped drive (e.g."%insertpathhere%Filemaker Pro.exe H:pathherefilehere.fp5) works like a charm... But, if connecting from within the program, browsing through hosts and telling servername everything works fine to server. So wondering if I'm missing something? Or is this a command not working on WindowsXP? Facts on old setup: Windows NT 4.0 SP6a TCP/IP…

Have a client w/ FMSv7.02 newly installed on a W2k3 server. We're a mac shop AND unfortunately we're 750 miles away from. Sent them a set of fmp5/6 apps to install. FMS has been patched to v02 and FMP client appears to be functional as they CAN open the SAMPLE FMP file. However, NONE of our files (sent on CD and via email) once xvrted from v5 to v7 are accessable to users. User is getting asked for user ID and passwd (which sounds to us as an OS permission issue). The geek on their end has indicated that xvrted files are NOT read only, ARE at the same level as the FM sample and HAVE the same permissions as sample. Not completely PC saavy AND not seeing wh…

We have recently converted to Filemaker 7. We are running Filemaker Server 7 on OS 10.3.6 which is hosting all our databases. When performing a find in a field that is a calculation which references a related file the find does not work. I can see the data and sort on it - but not find it. I have tried removing the file from the server and opening it locally, in which case the find works! Even when the related file is still open via the server. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

I have installed FM Server7 successfully and have one client computer running FM Pro 7.0 Developer that locates this Server using Open Remote --> Local Host. I just installed FM Pro 7.0 on another computer on the same LAN and when I Open Remote --> Local Host, the Server is not located. If I use "Favorite Hosts" instead of "Local Hosts"and plug in the IP address of the Server the files pop up fine. This same computer running FM Pro 6.0 and using Open Remote locates Filemaker files on 2 other computers on the LAN. Any help will be much appreciated

Hello! I am trying to find a way to automate permanently adding a Remote FM host entry to a FMPro workstation. E.g. New workstation comes online, new user logs in and my script makes the necessary changes to specify the address of my FM Server in their FMPro hosts list. I can't find a location in the registry for the hosts list nor in the FMPro folder. I tried running Regmon and Filemon - no luck. Any other suggestions? -p

Hi - I'm new to this group. I'm having a crazy problem and don't know how to solve it. I'm nearly illiterate in the world of filemaker but have a good grasp of computer stuff in general - so please be patient. Here's the issue. The extent of any work I've done with FM server is to go into the console and stop/start/restart the server itself when we lose touch with it on a windows XP network (TCP). However I tried this today and when I went into the console and click on the admin/networking icon as per usual all I get is a setup assistant. This kind of freaks me out. Any idea what might have happened or how I can restore control?? thanks MUCH. Jonathan Dewdney

We have a Filemaker solution witha bout 10 files being served by FM Server to about 5 people. One of the users is constantly getting the Damaged File dialog upon opening the network files. The files are obviously not damaged, because everyone else in the ofice is working on them simultaneously. I can't see to find any wrong with this particular users setup / application. Any ideas why one person would get this message?

I finally figured out WHAT was causing a persistant problem I was having; Configuration: 30 user network of FM 6 (mixed OS X and OS 9 clients). FM Server 5 on OS X (10.3.5). Serving 25 files. What would probably be considered "very light" traffic. What was happening; The server would "mysteriously" just STOP... Open the config app, click start, and away it goes... but then after a day,or two, or three (seldom longer).. it would just stop again. What I finally figured out.. The log shows that the last 3 times it "just stopped" happened to be RIGHT after a backup schedule finished running. The last entry in the log is "backup schedule complete". So …

Event Source: FileMaker Server 7 Event Category: None Event ID: 24 Date: 1/10/2005 Time: 9:01:46 AM User: N/A Computer: DASH Description: Registration with directory service failed. (Invalid DN syntax) Dash runs w2k3 server and is a member server in w2k domain. How to solve this problem? Thank you.

Hi, A friend has fm7 server v1 (anyone know where the fix list is for v2 ?) on I believe the latest version of OSX. One of his coworkers had the database file open and he was unaware of this and i believe pasted in a script into scriptmaker - without shutting down the server. After that, the coworkers would connect to the database via their desktop and they would not be prompted to login and provide password! yet their permissions are still set on the file. is this because the file got trashed? Any insight would be appreciated. thanks in advance sincerelry, J__

Hi, Anyone out there has managed to use Filemaker Server Advanced 7 on Windows XP? If so, kindly let me know how. Thanks!

I am running Filemaker Server 5.5 on a MAC OS 10.3 server. I am having a problem with files becoming damaged while being accessed from client computers. I serve about 25 files and once one becomes damaged, they all start damaging. When I recover the files, they turn back into "read only" files and must be changed to "read and write' before they will serve. I access my OS X Server using MACS and PCS running Filmaker 5.0. I wonder if the cross platform is making a difference.

Hi we upgraded from FM Pro to Server, because we have many people who need to access the Files at once. Before with Pro we could publish the files to the web, but after looking around I see that to do this with server we need to get the advanced edition. I was wondering if I could run both pro and server, and have pro host the one file I need to publish to the web. Thanks in advanced for all of your help. Stephen.