FileMaker Server Legacy Discussions

Hey guys! I'm having some issues with an aplication and though that maybe someone here could help me. I'm running an aplication that uses 17-20 different databases. It was created using FM 6, it is running on a windos xp os, using a filemaker server 5.5. the application is opened using a "start_up" scrip which initializes the file to verify the user. the application verifies the user by pulling information from a "users" database, and comparing to entered information. My problem is that if someone is logged into the databases, and someone else goes in, the system can not figure out what is going on..... o.k., let me see if I can explain this a bit better…

Anyone have an idea as to the best method for utilizing Multiple NIC cards. In the FMS Admin Guide it states: "FileMaker Server works with your network operating system's ability to utilize multiple network interface cards (NICs). You can use multiple NICs and IP address aliases to provide your clients better access to hosted databases."(pg 9) Is this right?: So I've got two cards, with 2 public & static IP addresses, my DNS maps the same hostname "fmp.server.com" to both IP addresses 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.1.2. Does one of the NICs have to be set up so that it doesn't route traffic out? i.e. Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.255 Does my FMS have to have the Host Address as …

Good morning! Anyone know how to get a file being served on FileMaker Server to launch as a start up item? We have FileMakerServer set up on a PC with Windows 2000. It is serving mostly Mac platforms. I'd like my Mac users to be able to launch a served file at start up. On the Mac, when I "Connect to Server" from the Finder and choose our regular server called "Porky", after I log on, the server shows up on my desktop. And, thus, I can drag the icon into the Startup Items. Then whenever I start up, the server Porky opens up requesting the password with which I was originally logged on as when the icon was dragged into the startup items. From there I can have any Fil…

hello everyone Upon installing Server 7- we configured the daemons to start automatically, but we are getting errors and they are not starting at all either from the terminal or upon startup. We are also not getting any event logs in console. The out put we get from the system log is "the following startup failed to properly start; /library/startup items/filemaker server helper - execution of startup script failed. The following startup items were not attempted due to failure of a required service /library/startup items/filemaker server. When we run in terminal and try to start the helper d we get no output but it still doesn't run. Any help is greatly ap…

Quick question? Is their a setting in Filemaker Server which will startup and shutdown the Filemaker Server through the course of the day. The problem is when the Windows server starts it's daily back up it will not backup any of the databases due to Filemaker Server is running. What to do? :confused:

[DOUBLE-POST] Someone had posted a question a while back (maybe a month or two?), asking what error 6 means when trying to access a file across a network. I can find no documentation for this error, and it seems to be an FM error rather than a Windows one, so i will pretend to be an error 6 authority. I think i have an answer, but i can't find the original post. So here goes (hope you're still on the forum, bud). I hope the pooh-bahs will forgive me for double-posting, but i'm not sure where this should go. I have a local file that looks for a database on the network called "Opener.usr". Last night, running that file, i got an Error 6. When i open the Ho…

I work for an organization that is trying to rid itself of Macs...we have been working on a solution to house our numerous databases and web pages. We were hoping to house databases on a Mac running Server 5, and our web pages on a Mac running Unlimited. Other sections of our organization are utilizing this type of solution VERY successfully...however, since we are no longer able to get Macs, we are starting from square one attempting to do the same thing with Windows. Right now the boxes are running Windows Server 2000 and we are having LOTS of trouble loading Filemaker Server...any advice would be welcome!!!

I have just installed FileMaker server 5.5 on a Windows 2003 server. I have verified that the server is running (from the FM Server manager). I have placed two databases (.fp5 files) in program filesfilemakerfilemaker server 5.5data I have opened the Command prompt and issued the command fmserver open However, I cannot connect to the databases from either FM pro 5.5 (already installed on a workstation) or FM Pro 6.0 (newly installed on another station. Both the stations can connect to shared folders on the server. In FM Pro, selecting File / Open remote turns up nothing. I can enter the server name but that does not bring up the databases ei…

I am trying to connect to a remote Filemaker database with no success. I can connect to other people's FM Servers from this location, but there is one giving me trouble. Problem is, other people are able to connect to it. - the FM Server in question is running on an OS X machine (Jaguar running FM Server 5.5) behind a firewall with TCP/IP and UDP traffic on port 5003 being forwarded to the machine running the server - I can see the hosted database from many external locations on both mac and pc versions of FM Pro 5.5 or 6 - but not from some locations We have also tried the IP Address followed by ":5003" without success. Does anyone have any ideas? Oth…

Friends - I administratively closed a FMP 5.5 file on the server, removed it to my desktop, modified it, and put it back on the server. When I try to administratively open the file I receive error message "Error Occurred;unable to open file". FilmMaker says the resolution of this issue is; "The cloned database must be opened at least one time in FileMaker Pro to set the necessary attributes". I assumed that opening the file on my desktop would do the trick. However, I'm getting the same error message? The only solution I've found is to reboot the server (not a good way to keep friends). My modified files come up as 'open', after IT reboots the server? Must be a …

Please help. I would like one networked computer (Filemaker 6.0) to run in a kiosk mode (for public use). The other work stations need to run in the regular mode. Is this possible? How is it done?? Thank you for any help.

I have developed a software in Dev 7 and tested that all are working. However, once I compiled into exe mode, the import and export function refuse to work. The error message is " "myFilename" could not be created on this disk. Use a different name, make more room on the disk, unlock it or use a different drive". This error happens even if I run the exe using the administrator rights. Does someone know the cause. Thanks.

I could use some advice on installing FM Server. The manual is a bit sketchy on setting things up. I'm running FM Pro 6 on three iMacs, one of which is the host, where I'm going to install FM Server. Now will I be able to run FM 6 on the host computer and work with the database? Or must it be dedicated? As for installation, I take it that Server should be installed while logged in as the root user. So I'm guessing that the server folder must go in the root directory/folder along with the database files, rather than inside a User folder. Am I getting this right? Help!

Hi, We've been running FileMaker Server version 3 for ages. Finally are able to migrate to current versions of FMS 5.5 & FMP6. As this has become the Single Most Important computer in the building, we got a Dual G5/2gig to be the FIleMaker 5.5 (v4) Server. The transition is mostly very good. The G5 has 512MB RAM, and is running Mac OSX 10.3.4 Panther. All forms of OS file sharing are off. Everybody uses a single-script "launcher file to open the hosted db files properly. Network is 100Bt. Everybody uses Macs, All are iMac G3/233 or better, many are G4's. Most are running Mac OS 9.22. I set the FMPS ram cache to 35MB (was 40). Total hosted files are 866MB…

I Work using windows 2000 and I 'm trying to open , on a client computer, the system files I developed. I've already put the system files in FileMeker Server folder. I use FileMaker Server 5.5 and FileMaker Pro 5.5 on the client computers. I managed to open 3 files, but the other 15 files can't open. They can't be found among the host files. What may be going on ?

Hello, I have a .NET application that I'd like to connect to a FileMaker database (version 7) that will be running on an OS X server. Is this possible? Limitations? I've seen something on FileMaker's website that says that FileMaker 7 running on OS X cannot act as a ODBC database server. Thanks for any help, Brian

I created a alert task for users who have a hosted file open in FileMaker Server Console last week and need to review it. But I can't find it, and don't remember what I named it. When I go back to the Task Scheduler it only let's me create a new task. Does anyone know where to go to see the tasks that have been schedule? My hunt and peck search failed. Thanks Jana :crazy:

I'm using FM Server 5.5 loaded on a Mac with OS 9.0. My clients use both PCs and Macs. One of my Mac clients needs to print envelopes, but I can't get the envelope format to stick. I have set the envelope format at the Server and also at her computer. Each time she goes to the envelope layout, the format has been lost. Could the problem be in her printer driver - or elsewhere? Maxwell Morlay

Is it possible to run both versions of server at the same time? I want to have my office continue working in the older version as I test and develop the rewrite of a version 7 solution?

The FileMaker Server Best Practices document recommends turning off file sharing and other unused services. In various discussions/forums I've seen different interpretations of this statement. In a windows environment (specifically Win2K Server), how _specifically_ does one 'turn off' file sharing? Does this mean not sharing FileMaker data folders, not sharing any folders (what about admin shares e.g. FMServer01C$), stopping a service, changing a windows setting? Similarly, one source led me to believe that simply allowing file sharing (no virus software, no backup software, no direct user access to files being hosted) might 'confuse' the OS and fool it into think…

I want to create two folders to hold database. I want the users of each folder to only have access/view to the contents of their own folder? How do I do this with FileServer 5.5 or Windows Server 2000 which is our OS on the PC hold FMS. Any Suggestions? thanks jana :confused:

Hi I have downloaded the updater FMP server v4 from Filemaker.com and run it severeal time on my v2 installed on a Mac OSX-Server 10.2.8 but I always get an error during the installation "Error preventing the update of complicated error 11002:2,-14". I even tried on a Mac OSX-10.2.8 but the installer gives the same error message. Can anyone help urgently? Thanks.

How can I open remotly a Database from a Filemaker Server, where the name of the database name was created via a calculation ?

Hello All, I have a client who recently upgraded their SBS 2000 server to SBS 2003, and found that they could not re-install their copy of FMPS 5.5. Specifically, they get an error when the installer runs stating: Error 1904.Module E;Program FilesFilemakerFilemaker Server 5.5RegistrationIRaVCobj.dll failed to register HRESULT-2147467260 Contact your support personnel They did contact FMI and were told simply that they don't "support" running FMPS 5.5 on SBS 2003 and that they should upgrade to FM7. That won't work for a variety of reasons. I have read elsewhere that several people have gotten FMPS 5.5 to run on Windows Server 03. I have yet…

Hello All, I just took on a client who has "major" filemaker issues and no budget to purchase anything new. Here is the scenario. Workgroup network. 7 workstations. Filemaker Pro 5.5 installed on all systems. There is one Main server w2k, but it is just fucctioning as a Workstation. Is there a difference between FileMaker running in a shared network workgroup and File Maker server? Curently the Filemaker database files are on a shared drive on the network, where all shared files in teh office are stored. People have shortcuts on theri desktops to the shared databases. A script on the "server" starts up all the shared databases each morning. Is this an improper …

Can a shortcut be created to become a guest for a Server hosted file? Would a shortcut to the file in the folder it is stored in be the same thing. Also, what is the exact syntax to tell Server to stop serving files so that a backup can be taken (I dont need the syntax for creating the backup - MS Server 2003 is handling that)

Say it ain't so. I must have majorly misunderstood what they meant by external server authentication. It looks like, and tell me if I'm wrong, that external server authentication is only for verifying access to the file and assigning the privilege set? The main thing I wanted, and thought we were getting, was for my users to be able to log in using their Windows domain username and password.

Well just check version tracker and their is FMS7, clicked on download and got the link to FMS5.5v4, ok went to the FM site, the form says choose a trial to download, and guess what no FMS7 listed....guess the guys that wrote the FMS 5.5V3 version are now doing their web site. Rod

I am currently running FM Pro Server 5.5 on a G4 and am in the process of recommending an upgrade to this machine in anticipation of FM Pro Server 7. I am thinking that I can get a refurbished G5 from Apple. Does anyone have any experience using a G5 with FM Pro Server 5.5 - I am not looking for speed trials here - I just want to make certain that it doesn't crash horribly before I go out on a limb. The environment that i have is a Gigabit ethernet Server room - fm server hosting 75 files - 2 Remote Terminal Servers with 10 users each (3-5 simultaneously) and internal 100base t net with 10 more machines so its gotta work! Thanks

Right now I been running for 2 weeks a FM Server 5.5v4 for a small network where the only Mac is the Server in this case a G5. Users dont have any trouble at all running windows 98, millenium, XP, all with FM6 using the host button to get in. But if I run FM6 on the G5 server at the same time FM server 5.5v4 is running, the data bases get damaged when stopping the FM server config application, I suppouse. I am oppening the served databases using the host button on the G5 itself because I need to use the G5 as a client and as server at the same time. I cant discard FMS because of auto back ups. I havent been able to find out if doing this simultaneous running of …

Hi, I've recently started a copy of Server 5.5 on what I thought was a Grunty 2 month old Dell Poweredge server running Win2k server. The server is also running file & print services for 14 users, and since launching FM 5.5 users have been finding file copying etc much slower than normal, and word freezes when they try to save opened docs back to the server. the copying isn't a big issue, but the MS Word saving/freezing is a disaster. I was under the impression that FM server plays nice with other win2k services (unlike Fm server and Appleshare IP) Appreciate any suggestions / advice. Cheers, Tobes.

Our file maker files are sitting on a OS 10 server but the files are viewed on a combination of OS9 and PC machines. I had some updating to do to the files and went directly to the server to fix them. I shut down the server and opened the files in Filemaker 6 Developer. It said some files were corrupted so I proceeded to recover the files and seemed to get stuck in a loop. To fix this I decided to accessed our backup file and proceeded to transfer the files over to overwrite all files, keeping everything clean (Transfer was done with the server shut down and Developer 6 closed as well. But when I do this the last file to be transferred will not go. Filemaker says that it …

I am at a loss. Seems just recently our databases are running at a snails pace. Wasn't my idea, but our system is FMS 5.5 v4 on 10.3.3 XServe and the files are on a XRaid. Everything has been running really well for about two weeks, in fact faster than our previous set up. But now using the databases takes a really long time and everyone who uses them can't get their work done, etc etc. Any common problems that I'm overlooking?

I moved a bunch of FMP Server hosted files from our OS 9 server to OS X server. I have a file for example Alternative School Master2002.fp5 being hosted by the FMP Server. I can access via FMP using Open Remote and then navigate to the OS X fmp host (xserve1) and then open the file. Now I have users that will via the finder Navigate to the shared directory and double click on the same file! When the file was hosted by FMP 5 Server in OS 9 the double clicked file would open as a guest of the FMP Server. Now under OS X is warns me that I'm about ready to host a database on a remote volume. This gives me the impression that I am trying to open the database twice. In fact I …

Hi, I have FMServer installed in a G3 running OS 9.2, hosting 30 files. It is accessed by 25 Macs running OS 10.3.3. We are getting an Xserve Raid, so I guess these are my options: 1. Keep FMServer in the G3 running OS 9.2 2. Moving FMServer to a G4 running 10.3.3 3. Moving FMServer to the Xserve What option would you go for? Thanks a lot in advance! :grin:

Under what cirmstances, if any, will the data in a global field be saved when exiting a database hosted by a server? I need to have a global container field populated with an object of a certain color.

On a network running Windows 2003 server, one user is accessing via Terminal Services. All works fine, except that for one issue. An "Opener script" has been created that connects to a hosted database that uses FileMaker Server 5.5. This works on all the LAN stations, but does not work on the station connecting by terminal services. Any ideas anyone? FileMaker Version: 6 Platform: Windows XP

Hello, I have installed FM Server 5.5 for Windows. I find the "FileMaker Server Console". Now I want to open FM databases, but I don't find any option to open databases. Question: Where do I find the option open database? Greetings Jukkie

I have a newbie question. Right now running FM Server 5.5v4 on OS 10.2.8. We want to upgrade to FM Server 5.5v4 on OS 10.3.3 Server. Has anyone had or heard about any problems with FM Server being on a Panther server machine? Thanks in advance, Salazar

Hi, This is how this system looks like: FileMaker Server 5.5 v1 running on a G3 in OS 9.2. Accessed by 25 users running FM6 under OS X : They are changing the server to Panther, so I guess it's the right time to move FM Server to a G4 (OS X ver 10.3.3, 500Mhz processor, 512 MB SDRam). According to the FMServer 5.5 Administrator's Guide of FMS 5.5, it can run under OSX, but it wouldn't be able to open FM6 databases (only FMP 5.x) ... does that mean that we have no option but to upgrade to FM Server 6? Thanks a lot in advance! :

Anyone else experience panther FREEZE and give you the multi-language dimmed "Restart your machine" message? Other than going to OS 9 (I am not sure even if this machine boots in 9) Need a remedy. Workers will be in at 6am and the phone calls will start :crazy:

on server 5.5 I have tried the what was described on the techinfo and on macoxhints. any other ideas? FileMaker Version: Dev 7 Platform: Mac OS X Panther

I have some experience developing and deploying filemaker solutions but yesterday I found an strange fail when I try to server different filemaker files in a Mac OS X 10.2.8 server with FileMaker server 5.5v2 to clients using Filemaker pro 6v3 running over a MacOS X 10.2.8 too. When we have opened different filemaker files from Filemaker pro client side, every calculation field were empty and has no calculation was done (nor seen on screen). It happends in every layout and in every filemaker file. No calculation was done in client side, but if we try to server those databases using a Filemaker pro 6 instead filemaker server, no problem was found, and customers …

Hi, I am running FMPro Server 5.5 on a Windows 2000 machine. I want to be able to access the database remotely via the web. I set up the server and it is currently running under services. I had it working to the point where when I typed the servers ip and port 81, it came up, but without the database that was created. Now, after resetting it up, it doesn't come up at all. Any ideas? Or know of any tutorials that could help me out? All help is appreciated! Thank You, Ryan FileMaker Version: 5 Platform: Windows 2000

Can i have FM server 5 on windows 2000 professional. Will it be stable. I dont see any updates also on the website. I have installed but it is not running properly. ANy suggestions are really appreciated. thanks, naveen.

My setup is as follows: FMP Server v5.5 running on OS X v10.3.3 (G4 tower) FMP Client v6 running on OS X v10.3.3 (2 iBooks and 1 iMac) My problem: When trying to open a file with FMP Client v6 being served by FMP Server v5.5, I get unexpected quits. The crashlog file generated says that a "EXC_BAD_ADDRESS" AND "KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE" has occurred. If I open this same file directly with FMP Client v6, it opens properly. If anyone has any insight into this problem, it would be appreciated. FileMaker Version: 6 Platform: Mac OS X Panther

I've been serving a multiuser file in-house with 6 users for years now. No problems. As we upgrade to FMP 7, I'm wondering if I should invest in FMP 7.0 Server, but don't know the advantages. We're not publishing the files. I guess my question is - what is the difference in a mult-user file and a served file? tks Version: v6.x Platform: Mac OS X Jaguar

I have setup a Windows 2000 Server and installed FMServer 5. I have a Linksys Wireless-B access point hanging off the W2k server and two Windows Desktop PC's with Linksys Wireless-B USB Network Adapters. The desktops and the W2k server see each other. I can ping and share files/printers. I have FileMaker Pro 5.5 installed on the desktops. When I try to access the server files by clicking Host the files don't apprear. I have tried entering the IP address of the server but get the same results. Both the desktop computers have NIC's. The onboard NIC's are attached to a Netopia DSL modem for Internet access. I have the Internet connection and the wireless connection on differ…

I have a g4 that acts as the host for our fm files. There are three other G4's all on 10.3 and an IBM running XP The IBM is always connected and there is no problem. The macs are all cut off after idle time. I shut off the disconnect button at one time and now I can not find which preferences I found it at. I need that information but also right after I had shut that option off it seemed better but still disconnected the macs. Is there a setting on the host computer or all of the guest computers that I can change to keep them always connected? Version: v6.x Platform: Mac OS X Panther

I am about to install a server that uses Windows Small Business Server 2003 as an OS. This is a donated server, and I am not Windows smart (Macuser since 1985.) I have a copy of Filemaker Server 5.0 that I want to install on the server. There will be eight computers, running various Windows software (ME, XP, 98 and 2000). Can anyone tell me if I am going to have a compatability issue here? TIA Version: v5.x

This is my first post, so I appologize if I am doing something wrong. I just need help with a situation. We are developers of FM solutions. I am doing an install for a government faciltiy. They have very tight security. They have two major concerns. 1. They say it is a major security breach to install FM Server to the root of C. Is there any ay around this? 2. Thay also say it is a major security breach to pass the client password in open text over the network to the data files on the Server. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Jeff Hardesty Version: Server v5 Platform: Windows 2000

This might seem like a stupid question but ... I just signed up for a dedicated server to host my files. Is it possible to run filemaker pro6 on it as a server or do I have to get filemaker server? I have no idea what to do next. there would only be two computers accessing it. Any help would be great. Thanks. Version: v6.x Platform: Windows XP

We've FM server 5.5 V2 Running on Xservev Mac OS x 10.2.4 We are desperate over the issue of FM server 5.5v2, updated to 5.5v4 not running. We have followed all the necessary steps as guided. We stopped 111 databases one by one. We removed all the databases of first level to an outside folder after stopping the server. We ran the updater v4 Restarted the computer Checked the version of the updated FM application and is correct. 5.5v4 Double clicked but nothing happens. Finally we had to reinstall the previous version again We have frequent closing of some databases and we understand that v4 will fix these problems Please send us a favorable r…

All of a sudden my FM Server 5.5 has stopped serving my main database. All the other databases open automatically as the main one used to, but this one won't, on startup, or through manual selection. I checked the log file, which instructs me to open it in FileMaker Pro first. I have done this, both on the server and from another computer on the LAN (which is running Mac OS 9), but still server won't open this file. I have also run a recover on the file and server won't open the recovered file either. Any suggestions anyone? Version: Server v5 Platform: Mac OS X Panther

I have a small group of computers networked together using ethernet. We have used FM with the fastest computer as the host and the rest connected and it has worked great. Yesterday we installed DSL for internet. If I configure the host computer using DHCP it will get on internet fine but none of the other computers can see FM files. You can open a FM file that is on the host computer but if the host has it already open you can not connect. If I configure host using "DHCP with manual IP address" (Address never changes) FM works great but then you can not connect to the internet. One or the other but not both. At all times and with either configuration all the computers…

Is anyone successully running FM Server 5 on Windows 2003 Server? Thanks. Will

Just last week I noticed that the server wasnt working I tried repairing, and restarting the server but to no avail (filemaker server 5.5 is on a win 2000 server machine) when I try opening a file on the server itself I get that a 10048 error code network error (which i didnt get b4). I have shortcuts to the files in the fmserver.exe folder so I can't understand why they aren't being hosted it was working a treat? When I try to open the files from the clients I get you are about to become a host blah blah. I can open the files with Filemaker pro 6 on the server machine and they are hosted on the client machines fine (multi user - once I stop the…

We recently had a prolonged power outage and the server's backup battery ran out and the machine, running OSX, powered down while the server was still running. Obviously those files opened could not be used and we went backwards to our backup, which luckily was only 8 minutes old. Not much data was lost but if the next power outtage happens at the wrong time, we could lose as much as an hour of data. In OS 9, I was able to have an applescript that would trigger the Server to shut down at the power outage prior to losing battery backup power, thus saving all the data. In OSX this is just not possible, as best I can tell. The server is not scriptable and even with r…

Hello, I am running fm 6.0v4 on a mac on OS X. The fm program won't open. I see the splash screen and then it closes. It used to open ok under OS X. I have re-installed fm. I have removed the fonts from the library. Any suggestions? Lori Lee

I'm currently hosting 5 files using FM Sever for OS X. So far things are going fine with the exception that for some reason one of the files is not being served. I looked at some of the possible reasons as to why one of the files is not being served such as 1. File permissions 2. The file is set to single user 3. The amount of files that FM Server can host. and all of them are set properly and I have checked all of them numerous times. The FM server automatically shuts down at a specified time to perform some maintenance backups and updates and when the FM Server automatically starts back up, one of the files is not being served. I thought that mayb…

Hello, I am running FileMaker Server 5 on a Windows NT. The console does not work. The display comes up with all the options but nothing happens when I try the link. I believe I heard this was a know problem but I would like to verify this. If the console doesn't work directly is there an indirect method of running it. I would like to set up a backup schedule if nothing else. Thanks. Mike

Hi, Could anyone tell me if it is possible to call up server-based FMP files from an icon on a networked PC rather than having to let users pick a file from the Remote administration? Many thanks, Roger

I am having a problem with my version of FileMaker Server 5.5v4. It's running on Mac OS X 10.1.5 right now on a quicksilver G4. It seems that when I try to access the Remote Administration system, it tells me that my password is incorrect. I have tried time and again retyping passwords in both the server and the client, and restarting the server app as well as the whole machine. I cannot get into the Remote Admin. Any ideas? Thanks! Shawn

I have a 19 file solution that I have been running successfully for 10 years, till now. Two of the files open very slowly (15 seconds), and even more slowly the further away from the server the terminal machine resides (10 minutes). The two files are the largest files in size, but not records, and both have many PICTS in containers. The server is a G4 733 OSX running FMS 5.5 v4. To make sure it was not a problem with the machine I moved the files to our backup server, G4 500DP OSX and same result with FMS 5.5 v1 and v4. The fact that the opening was much longer at machines further away made me wonder if due to our firewall, but the slow opening has been seen with our…

I am looking for books or other good reference materials for handling Server and OS X. FM Bible doesn't have SQUAT (less than 1 page) and there is a derth of other books at the local Borders/Barnes & Noble to see if they have anything. If ANYONE has any good suggestions, please let me know. I've been running into server issues lately and it falls on me to have the answers.

Thanks, Riley. You are basically suggesting that I automate what I ended up having to do manually. While this would work, it bothers me that it seems like it wouldn't be very flexible. The way I'm envisioning it, I would have to predefine the funding source categories from the Service file in my find operation in the Clients file, so that whenever we added a new funding source, I'd have to reprogram the find scripts. I'm sure there's a more elegant solution, I'm just not coming up with it yet. Eric

I'm looking for a way to make my Filemaker Server 5.5 on Windows 2000 Server listen on the 2 ip's in that box. Is there any way our workaround to achieve this ?

I created a new tiny file in FMP 6 on a Mac OS X machine. The file is multi-user and has an .fp5 extension. I then moved the file to the FMP Server folder. From my Win 2000 PC workstation from which I administer the server I attempted to open the file. The server showed the file as available to be opened, but when I attempted to open it I got the message "Error occurred; unable to open file." I thought there might have been something strange with creating the file on the Mac, so I recreated it on a PC and copied it to the Mac. Same result. I saw a similar post from earlier this month, but that problem was resolved "spontaneously" without explanation. A…

Hi all: This is a repeat of a post lost in the hacking fiasco. I've got a client running FM Server 5.5v2 (I've just told him to upgrade to v4) on OS X Server. I've heard all sorts of horror stories, but wondered if anyone could give me a simple lowdown on what exactly the problems are. Thanks -Stanley

Hi, I have an ongoing issue that I would like some advice upon. Firstly, I have nothing to do with the network administration that we run our Filemaker server on so have limited knowledge about our network. I think we are running FMP server 5.5 on a Win2k server, though is not exactly optimal due to its age and size. My databases are setup to run via TCP/IP in a multi-user hidden environment. When I am conducting design changes while at work, ie. I am on a LAN though the server is on a different network thus still accessed via TCP/IP, everything runs well. When I implement design changes from hom, ADSL type dial-up, by changes I mean creating new calculated fiel…

Hello Folks, Does anyone have detailed instructions for configuring FMS 5.5 on a Win2k Server with "Active Directory". The documentation is a bit ambiguous. Thanks! complete-db

Hi all New to FM Server (5.5) and have just got it setup and seems to be working fine. Once question though, the Server will open all files in Directory 0 and 1, but no further is there any way to configure it to open files automatically in deeper directories? e.g. I have; root 2 files -->Directory 1 11 files -->Directory 2 7 files ---->Subdirectory 1 3 files It opens all files in root and directory 1 and 2 but not subdirectory 1 Any ideas Greg

I am attempting to host a file on a Windows 2000 FileMaker Server. The file was previously available on a Mac OS9 computer. When I attempt to host the file I am getting the error "Error occurred; unable to open file." There was a start up script that was calling another database that was not present. I disabled that script but it is still not working. Any idea on how I can resolve this problem. I forgot to mention that the file is working if I access it directly with FileMaker and do not host it on a FileMaker Server.

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Hi all, and happy holidays: I'm working on a solution for a client who had an intern building his FM Server solution, and the intern has left the company, so I was called in to finish the job. This is the first time I've had to finish someone else's job, having previously done everything myself from scratch. Before I turned up, it seems that the intern was allowing users to access the databases using file sharing, and the files were being corrupted on a fairly regular basis. Now, I am working on them at my office, and in the meantime the customer will not be using the system at all, so the install will be clean, so far as what comes off my computers. The problem…

I'm looking to max out performance of Windows 2000 Server, Filemaker Pro 5.5 and 50+ terminal services users at any given time. If anyone has this configuration running speedily, with 23+ databases open at a time, suggestions are welcome as to configuration choices. I have already consulted he best practices paper, and we are encountering the following issues. Note: FM Pro server 5.5 and term services are on different servers. 1. Terminal Services displays a blank blue screen after user remote login. Probably term services, but may be due to lots of pre-existing instances of Filemaker Client up and running. 2. 2 CPU machine always maxxed. This is a dual Xenon…

Hello I am a novice and my employer would like to have our filemaker files speeded up. We are now using 17 macs on OS 9 with version 4.1 of Filemaker We want to use panther and go to Filemaker 6 and we want to run all our computers together using filemaker on TCP/IP What will Filemaker Server do for us. Do we just use FM server and all is automatic? Is there a speed increase or do we have to use a Hardware Apple server as well Thanks, Dave

one more question if we must install fm server on different machine i need to reuse an old server (PIII 533MHz 256MB ram) which part of server is stressed if i use FMServer with 10 clients who hardly works with one only database (Ram, Cpu, Disk, Lan...)? Which part i need to improve? Bests mark

I need to install on the same server (win 2k) FMserver and the terminal services to deploy my application to 10 client (old hardware with win 98). Has anybody some experience with this configuration? excuse me for my english. hi mark

I am experienced with FileMaker Development, but this is my first personal experience with installing a server. The server is currently running Windows NT and was the same server we were using for development using FileMaker Server v3. I know where the files are supposed to go (in the FileMaker Server's Program directory or one level below it), but it there a way to have FileMaker Server v5.5 control and automatically open database files in a different directory. We don't want to move the files off the server, but we do want to have them exist on a different logical drive. Part of the issue is for backups. But an equally large issue is the need for separation f…

I have FileMaker Pro 6.0v4. I used the FileMaker Server 5.5 CD to install the Server Administration X plug-in, which appears in my FileMaker extensions folder. Whenever I connect to my server, the admin window notes on the bottom that I do not have the administration plug-in installed. I shared the same problem many users had trying to update the server to the latest release. The updater sucked and someone at FileMaker should be fired. Anyhoo, I had to do a clean-install of the server program in order to update it. I was hoping this would resolve my administration problem, but it did not. I tried installing the admin plug-in on another machine but got the s…

Has anyone run into this situtaion: Occasionally while using the remote admin plugin feature for my 6.0 FM server (plug in is in my FM developer 5.5)and accessing the server (maybe to close a file) the server system crashes? The server is about 3 years old and has been very reliable. But something is "axe"ing the server and causing a crash. I can't determine if the problem is related to the admin, developer,server or the system. I have all new up dates in all systems (W2K) and app's. The server event log doesn't provide any clue. Any thooughts?

FM Server 5.5 installed on windows 2000 server as USER_X on windows 2000 client machines only USER_X can edit tables on windows 2000 client machines USER_Y can see remote tables on server but cannot edit. Any suggestions how to solve this? Thanks !

System: NT Server/XP Clients/Filemaker 5... When launching a file while off the server, access privileges are fine... When operating ON the Server, full access privileges are not available-- even with the full access password. Has anyone experienced this? Is there a solution or am I doing something wrong?

The filemaker server administration plugin adds some external script steps to filemaker server, which all start with the prefix "FMA..." Since these are meant for the Server Admistration plugin Filemaker does not provide documentation for them. I'm wondering if anyone knows how to use the the "FMA-GetGuestDetails..." status function? It would be nice if identifying information could be gleaned about a user to help customize the content that they are served.

I need to serve databases to FM clients as well as via the Web Companion. This used to work fine under OS9. I now have all the databases on an OSX machine (10.2.6) running FM Server 5.5. FMP6 clients reach them OK. According to the Server Admin Guide, I should be able to publish these files to the web with FMP. So I install FMP6 on the same machine. Fire it up, "Open Remote.." to the Server files and enable the Web Companion. This does not work however. In fact, using some simple test files, I found that enabling web sharing on a non-FM Server hosted file prevents other FMP6 clients from seeing that file. Is this a problem with FM Server and FMP being on the sam…

Hi we're going to move to Xservers and I'm aware that FMS should run as the only serverapp on any machine - but it seems that Xservers have way too much capacity for just FMS. Will running Apache and maybe a mailserver affect the speed of FMS? We are currently running FMS on a G4, but are replacing al G4's with Xservers. Any input on this?

on fm server on mac os 9 (below) their is a GUI version where you can see a lot of info on users and files connecting but on os x i couldt see anythin? just an icon that saids filemaker server is running.

Hello, I am in the process of configuring a new network for a client. I had planned to buy an IBM server with Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition. However after checking with FMI they don't support SBS 2003 (how lame). I really hate having to dish out $1000 for an outdated Filemaker Pro 5.5 Server and then having to dish out another $1000 for W2k Server(SBS 2003 is only $600). I only have 5 users sharing about 15 files. Would I be better off going with a WinXP Pro box with Filemaker Client? Also would hosting Qbooks Pro Files on the same box really hurt my performance? Thanks, PSC

I have a client who is running FM server over a WAN. Guests are opening the files via the "Host" button. Their network tends to drop out periodically and it seems to be causing files to corrupt. At this point it is a daily occurrence. Anyone know why this is happening?

Is there any way to detect if the TCP/IP has been selected? I know it does occur on clients because I have seen the error come up. On one app I have seen it bring up a window asking you to select a communication protocol from a drop down list. But how can I do this? Am I just missing the error code for it?

I have posted this before, but can't find if this issue has been resolved... I am using FM server on Win2K. I have a single database which is access by approx 5 users - all of which are NT4 users. In general, all is fine... howevewr, approx once per month, a user will attempt to perform a task (which we have not identified as a single task) and a date field will change so that every record will have this same date.. This is a db file in which usually only one of the five users will acess this date field. This field is either filled manually or by selecting via a button on a calendar. This user has mentioned that the screen will redraw and record by record (in list …

After reading through lots of documentation I am hoping someone here can help... I am trying to successfully make a large upgrade jump from FM 3 to FM 6 in an office of about 12 users. We have been sharing databases over our network via FM 3, running in MAC OS 9, until now. As we have moved everything over to OS X, FM is the next thing to bring up to speed. All the new bells & whistles in FM 6 and FMS are making the transition a bit more confusing than I had expected. I have installed FM Server 5.5v2 on an iMac. It's not a workstation and will only be used to serve FM databases. I can start the server running using the FileMaker Server Config applicat…

Hello, we are running FMServer 5.5 on Windows 2000 Server. The FMserver service was using Administrator to start up. We changed this by creating a "fmserver" user and giving it all necessary rights (we think) to start the service. However, since this change, we keep getting the following in our backup log (We use Backup Exec 9): WARNING: "C:Documents and SettingsfilemakerLocal SettingsTempFMSERVER.TMP" is a corrupt file. This file cannot verify. WARNING: "C:Documents and SettingsfilemakerLocal SettingsTempRemote Administrationfmserver_Admin" is a corrupt file. This file cannot verify. WARNING: "C:Documents and SettingsfilemakerLocal SettingsTem…

We have been having instability problems with FM Server 5.5v3 on Mac OS X 10.2. We switched from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X about four weeks ago and we were not having these problems until recently. Symptoms

Hi all, I got FMS 5 running on Windows 2000 Professional. Generally it's behaving well with small databases. I have one file that exceeds 16000 records, and FMS is breathtakingly slow with that one. I tried to increase FMS process priority in Task Manager, but it did not allow the access. I'm logged in as admin of the machine. Any thoughts? :confused:

Greetings all, I have been asked to build a new FMP Server box to replace our aging current server. I have read the FMP Server best practice PDF offered on filemaker.com but sill would like to have your hands-on-based opinions: Keep in mind that our organization has about 10 users requiring local FMP access, 20 users requiring access through Terminal Service (almost equivalent to local access). We also serve part of our database system for public access (only search access, no editing) through Custom Web Publishing but we only get a couple hundreds of database hits a day. We currently own FMP Server 5.0, FileMaker Pro 5.0 Unlimited and FileMaker Pro 5.0 and woul…

I am in the process of setting up a FileMaker DB to replace our ancient ACT contact management system. I was hoping to use the FileMaker Solution Framework as a starting point. I opened the Sol. Framework in FMP6 to make the files multi-user. I also modified the 'File Options' in the framework to allow sharing of the files. Once these changes were made, I moved the files to the FMS5.5 installation folder and started the FMS service. From the remote system, I opened the 'Menu.FP5' file served from the FMS host. However, when I tried click the links to the other files from the menu file, a pop-up error appeared with the following text: ADMINISTRATOR: You must have…

Hi. I have Filemaker Server version 5.5 hosting 15 related databases to 12 users, and at times it runs annoying slow, especially when switching from 1 database to another. Its hosted on a Windows Small Business Server 2000, Hardware is 1GHz Pentium III with 512Mb RAM. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Mark :smirk:

I've got three clients who are using OS X and FileMaker Server 5.5 and who are all experiencing crashes and data loss. Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Help!