FileMaker Server Legacy Discussions

We recently upgraded and have a Toshiba SG20 we are looking to sell cheap. It comes with 2 drives, Wireless card and is preloaded with Fm server 5.5(Legit Copy) along with the Web Browser Admin Interface. Was a great box for us. Anyone needing Fm Server 5.5 I would reccomend this box. If interested please leave a post/pm me here or contact me via email. Cheers, Michael

Help! I may be panicking needlessly; God, I hope so. I thought a file didn't update its date/timestamp (when being served) until the file was closed. I just looked at our file (through Admin). Both services are running (normal). Database status is normal on all. But the date/timestamp says 45 minutes ago and we have NOT stopped serves or closed the databases! I feel my fingers going weak. Please tell I'm wrong and a served file sometimes updates this date/timestamp even when not closed. Please tell me that. It performed a backup at 4pm. The last User signed off at 5:11. The timestamp is 5:15. L

We have Filemaker Server 8.0v4 running on a very fast Windows 2003 machine w/ 2gig of ram. I have 2 primary filemaker files being served on this box which are 600mg & 800mg each. Every 3 hours we backup the data using the Filemaker Server backup schedule. When the backup runs the machine bogs down and runs very slow. Even the FM clients run extremely slow in Filemaker. This lasts about 5-6 minutes before normal speed/operation resumes. Is there anything that we can do about this? I have called Filemaker Support and they didn't have any suggestions. They didn't even provide me with a general idea of how long the backup should take given our file sizes. …

When closing the laptop or when the laptop goes to sleep Filemaker doesn't find it's connection anymore. It works fine on the desktops but the laptops show the error message: "communication with the host was interrupted and could not be re-established. (-3284)". Can you tell me if using Fm server 8 resolves this problem? Other programs like the organizer calendar don't have this connection problem, when you open your laptop the connection is immediately re-established. Thank you.

Hi Guys! I am purchasing Server 8 this week but am looking to run it on XP Pro SP2. My question is regarding concurrent web connections. What is the max count. I know IIS 5.1 on XP Pro is limited to 10, is this going to affect FM Server 8 and limit that to 10. Thanks.

Help! I have just installed FMS 5.5 and copied the database that we want to share to the FMP directory. I opened the database directly and set it to multiuser, closed it, and restarted the FMS service (Windows Server 2003). The database opens fine on the first client (FMP 6.0v4) but I get a "# of licenses exceeded" error when I try to open the DB on additional computers. Any idea what I am doing wrong or leaving out? ~Bruce

Hi, I have a client that just installed a Win 2003 server. They are running FMS 5.0 and now cannot see the files listed in the host dialog box. They are using the Win Active Directory Service but FMS 5.0 has no configuration for this like the FMS 5.5 does. Is there any work around or information you can provide. PLEASE HELP!

Hi, we have a Windows Server 2003 Standard and I have installed FileMaker Server 8v4. I have put a file in the databases folder on the server, started the service and have made sure that the proper ports are open on our router...although this should not matter since our workstations are on the same subnet. But when I try to open the file from our workstation, I can't see the file (clicking on remote, and typing in the ip does not show anything) Yet if I open the file as shared on one of our workstations, I can see it being shared on that machine. The windows server also has FileMaker Server 5.5 installed and working on it. When I stop the FileMaker Serv…

Hi, Im getting a 500 Server error when I try to view the fmi/config and fmi/iwp pages. Is there a reason to this? I am using Fm Server 8 on a G5 iMac using the built in Apache with PHP on. I had it working a few months ago but the server had a 'fit' and it had to be reinstalled and since then I cant get it working again. A quick reply would be helpful as my time is limited. Thanks.

Folks, I'm tasked with migrating data from FM Server 8 to SQL Server 2005. I was trying to use the ODBC driver for FM Server, and the SQL Server 2005 Data Import functionality. I keep having odd and inexplicable OLE and COM errors when trying to move the data (less than 100'000 rows - really not a huge amount). Any ideas? Is there another way to do this efficiently (on about 25 tables or so)? What can I check or tweak to make the import work? I have the same problems when trying to migrate the FM data to MS Access 2003, too. Any help would be highly appreciated !

I'm probably missing something obvious here... FMS 8.0 on Win won't seem to follow shortcuts to open db's. The help file and admin guide says I can put shortcuts to databases in the default Data/Databases folder, and it will open those files. It doesn't. No errors in the log, so it appears to be not even attempting to open them. If I put the same files in that same default folder (the files themselves rather than shortcuts) they open fine. Same thing if I add their current location as the alternate default folder. But I'd rather use the shortcut method if I could get it to work. Thanks for any help...

Okay - I have gotten down to the root of my problem. Can someone tell me if/how I can fix it, please? The problem of the unexpected end of file error seems to be due to a Java incompatibility. I found Win boxes on which identical versions of IE are running. The one using the java plugin 1.5.0_06 works; the one using 1.5.0_09 doesn't. Is there any way to update my servers to gain compatibility with the newer plug-in. I know nothing about how java works.

I am running 5.5 unltd on OS 9.2. I have a Webstar 4.5 (apache) front door that connects to a separate filemaker box via the web connector. For some reason calls to filemaker from browsers have started to produce an end-of-file error. It is intermittent, and possibly fixed by restarting the browser that is being used to access filemaker. May occur more with Firefox. I haven't done anything differently to/with the app or the databases, except that I increased the memory allocated to FM5.5u. Any thoughts?

Apple released a slew of updates yesterday for 10.4.8 -- including a Daylight Savings Time update which I could see being useful, and a Java update which one worries could affect IWP. Anyone tried these and care to report back? thx!

I am running FM7 Server under Windows 2000 Server. This configuration has been working happily for well over 12 months. In the last few days the server has been closing one of the files automatically (overnight). When I open again in the FileMaker Console it works fine. The users have no issue during the day but every morning I have to manually open this particular file?? I have a scheduled backup which runs each morning at 1am and this has been operating since installation. I checked the settings but can't see anything about opening/closing files. I am hosting 4 files and this is only happening to on of them. Can anyone help out? Thanks in advanc…

Our FileMaker Server (5.5v1, on a Maac G4/500 using OS 9.0.3) is not seeing our FileMaker files/databases. The files themselves seem fine. They open up normally with FileMaker Pro, with the exception of one. When I open FM Server, the FM Server window shows no list of our Files, which it usually does, and it indicates 0 Files (which is strange), and 0 Guests (none are logged on to it, however). It's blank. Moreover, the FM Server window and menu bar are frozen. That is, I can't select any of the tabs in the window (i.e., Folders, Files, and Guests). Nor can I go to the FM menu bar and open or close our FM files, to mount them on the FM Server, which of course we can norm…

Hi all Yesterday, during a routine scheduled backup, my filemaker server 5.5 decided to crash - see attached pics. We have a backup schedule that writes backups every hour, and this is rotated between 3 different locations so there will always be 3 backups of the work done in the last 3 hours. This has been working fine until now - for years. Looking through the event logs, I saw that the crash occurred while the server was trying to backup the largest fp5 file which is 270MB in size. Any ideas about why this could have happened ? My sysadmin colleagues assure me that the hardware and network setup are not at fault and are all good quality, although…

I have a windows 2003 Enterprise Server running FM server 5.5 successfully. We are trying to set up our new FM8 files and have a second server in the domain also running 2003 Enterprise Server with FM server 8. Server #1 with FM 5.5 - works perfectly Server #2 with FM 8 - services are started, and databases are sort of accessible in that they can be seen and opened - BUT - upon opening the served files an error comes up [pardon the paraphrasing]: Unable to host filemaker file as the filemaker service is aleady in use. The file functions except the annoying error message AND all container fields "loose" their contents - like all logos were not mapped. FYI all imag…

We have had this happening to our server for a while, but how it happens to the servers at one of our other divisions. when I go into the admin console, either locally or remote, and click through the tabs, I see strange results. (see the attached PDF) On the first image, it show ODBC and JDBC connections set to 0. This should be 50. Web Publishing Connections should be 250, I believe. Under the Minimum idle time allowed... I don't know off the top of my head what this should be, but the time that is in there is the system time when I opened the properties dialog box. The second image is pretty self explanatory. I get the error dialog when I try to…

HOw do I remove FMP 5 Server from a PC running Windows? I recently upgraded to FMP 8 running a 12 file dbase and for each file an error message says I cant share files as someone else on the computer already is. I thought I'd remove the FMP 5 server - someone tried to do it for me but now I have 6 compnents left which I cant delete. Help!

Hello all, I am running FMS 5.5 on Mac OS 10.2. When I go to start the server, I get an error message that reads "Unable to Start Server. Another instance of FileMaker Server is already running. Requested command has not been executed." I guess the best thing to do would be to restore from a backup; however, I was wondering if anybody had any better ideas. Could this error stem from a corrupted file? Thanks in advance for any advice/help. JPM

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this topic in, feel free to move it. We recently moved our filemaker server onto another server but left up the old one, a user wasn't aware of the fact and entered a massive amount of data into the database. Is there an application that can compare the two databases list the changes and update the current database file? I googled it and all that came up was genie update which apparently is dead. Thanks ahead of time :

I have never worked with FM server before, and am trying to move a file that was previously used locally on my computer. I want to have it on the server so it can be accessed by more than one person at a time. I moved the file to the FM 8 Server, and am able to access the file across the network, but I am unable to modify it. When I try to do any modification, I get an error that says "This action cannot be performed because this file is not modifiable." Before moving the file to the server, I created an admin login with full access, and a user login with write only access. This was done on the local file. I get the same error message with either login when …

I am unable to startup FileMaker Server 5.5 ... I get the following error: The IP address is unique (dhcp)... Mac Mini 10.4.8 ( i have the same config deployed elsewhere) Any other ideas? Many thanks Stuart

Hey guys, The tech support guy at Filemaker said to post in this forum cause you guys are the guru's and they don't support server 5 and filemaker pro 5 anymore. I hope you can help me. I have a client that has been running filemaker server and filemaker pro 5 for the last 6 years or so. They have a custom built database that has 18 fp5 files associated with. This company has moved locations 2 times this year, and this is where the problems start. The fm server 5 runs on a windows 2003 server with sp1. The clients run on win xp pro sp2. When they moved the first time, they started everything back up and could not find the database. I was not involved with the move …

I just inherited a Filemaker server version 3.0v4 on Mac OS9 with client Filemaker Pro 4.1 on Windows 2000. I don't know what the administrator's password is. Is there a way to find out the password? Also, I am new to Filemaker, is there resources on these old versions that I can learn, since resources for old versions are hard to find.

Simple as it may seem, I cannot find out which serial code was used for installing the 5.5 server we have in our office. I've tried Help --> About but no luck. Anyone know how I can do this ? Thank you ! Daniel

What is the best system configuration for running FMP Server 8 on a local network, with only internal workstations accessing. Its going to grow into a pretty extensive database, with over 20 tables with about 25,000 records in each. I am currenly using XP Pro, with 1 gig of ram. Does hard drive speed have anything to do with it? Any ideas....

We just upgraded our FM server from version 7 to 8.0v4. Everything seemed to go successfully until it came time to open files. I have 89 files being hosted. 85 of those files open fine. However, I have four that won't open. When I look at the FM Server logs it shows errors for these files stating that they could not be opened because they may be damaged. I have run each file through FM 8 Recover. They still will not open in FM Server 8. They open up fine directly through FM Pro 8 and 8.5. I would appreciate any assistance, especially since one of these is our main database file.

I have a situation: FMP Server 5.5 is hosting 49 databases but for some reason after stopping and starting the server one database is not listed on the available databases anymore. A little background: Earlier I had a corupt database and had to restore from backup. During this time of trying to figure out what was wrong the FMP Server had to be stopped unexpectedly twice. The database that had to be restored is not the same as the one that is not listed. I have already stopped FMP server and rebooted the computer and restarted FMP but still the database is not listed. I am able to open that database as a standalone connection. Any ideas?

I have a Win 2003 box running FM Server 5 with about 20 macs as clients. This setup works fine about 90% of the time. Occasionally, however, the client just hangs when I click on "hosts". Sometimes I can switch to the classic version of FM 5.5 on the clients and they can connect fine, sometimes that doesn't work either. This has never been a problem with the PCs we have as clients, either. Sometimes just one computer has problems connecting, other times none of them can connect until someone else logs off. Some possible problems I have already crossed off the list: restarted the server (had the problem again the next day) changed the switch that the server was co…

Were there any problems running Filemaker Server with IE6 or IE 7? I remember there was a problem running IE5.5 with FMS 5. I'm just making sure that there weren't issues like that. Thanks.

Hello, all Our FMP 5.5 server decides to quit working, so we move the data to a new box with the same IP, but we upgraded the OS to 10.4.8 Apparently, the openers don't work anymore. We just wonder what may cause this behavior? The server has the same IP setting. Thank you for your answer,

I've found a strange pattern of behavior with FMS in that when I stop running the service, FMS deletes any schedules I've set up and any configurations I've set. The identifier for the web publishing engine disappears and I have to re-enter it. This seems really counter to any software I've ever used. Am I missing something? If anyone know why this happens or how to fix it, I'd love to hear it. Thanks for your consideration. Will

Hi, I am charged with setting up a FMS8 on a Win2k3 server on an Active directory. I plan to use external authentication. Clients will access data using version 8.5 published on Citrix. In the guide it says to "disable Access Control Lists and do not use ACL file permissions". So should users not have access to the data and program folders? Is this because the FM services control access? Also, what will be the name of the FM service(s) listed in Windows services? I will post questions regarding external authentication in that forum. Thanks in advance.

Now that FMI has withdrawn most information about pre-7 versions of Filemaker, I can't figure out what was the last version of MacOS Server that was validated as working with Server 5.5. We are not in a position to move our entire solution to 7. However, the rest of the business is running on Tiger while the FM server remains running on OS9. I would like to get FM Server machine running as modern an OS as possible.

Very strange. Only one User received this error and only once ('copy of FM is damaged...'). I am not at work so don't know the specific error wording. Other Users can sign on as her and perform the same task without error. It happened when she performed a search - simple find on standard field (process has been in place and not modified for 2 years). Do you think our file is damaged? Or is it localized to her system? How will I tell? I would be nervous trusting our served copy when I don't understand what is wrong! The error may never happen again but I don't want to dismiss a possible corruption. I told her to reboot her system but I don't know what to do ab…

We've been using the web component with our website now for a couple of years and all was great until today. Today, when users browse to our page, they are suddenly asked for a username and password to view the database... we don't want this... the database is used for our site content management. I checked the settings, and it is set to use the Web Security.fp5 file and it is set with 1 record: All Databases (no master password as it is not needed) Users: All Users Password: (blank) Browse: checked (all other options) blank Any help at all would be great.

Hi, I've tried to do a network install but got into issues. The main problem is that I got Filemaker 8.5 from a download and not a cd. When I want to follow the network install procedure "Create a folder on your networked volume for the FileMaker product installer files. Locate the following files on your installation CD and copy them to the folder you created on your network volume: • Windows: The files folder, which contains the personalization file Assisted Install.txt and other required installation files. After you edit your personalization file and make it and the FileMaker installation files available on the network, users can perform an as…

I'm looking for best practices on setting permissions for partitions (non-boot) containing databases and backups for FMS7 running under 10.4.8, non-server. Listed first are the permission defaults, on the boot drive, in /Library/, for point of reference: ---------- drwxrwxr-x 11 fmserver fmsadmin 374 Dec 27 15:32 FileMaker Server 7 drwxrwxr-x 7 fmserver fmsadmin 238 Dec 29 16:20 Data drwxrwxr-x 2 fmserver fmsadmin 68 Jul 14 2003 Backups drwxrwxr-x 4 fmserver fmsadmin 136 Dec 8 16:07 Databases drwxrwxr-x 3 fmserver fmsadmin 102 Dec 8 16:46 Sample_Configuration -rwxrw-r-- 1 fmserver fmsadmin 524288 Jan 6 2005…

Using a Windows 2003 Server SP1 that meets minimum requirements. I was using FMP Server 7 before with no issues. Now I uninstall Server 7 and install Server 8 and the helper service will not start. I can sucessfully install Server 8 on another 2003 Server with the exact same hardware specs. I can successfully start the Server Service but not the helper serfvice. Any ideas?

I have Filemaker Server 5.5 running on a windows 2003 server. It happens to also be a domain server with active directory running on it. I don't need that server to be an active directory server any more and would like to demote it to completely get rid of that domain and join it to another domain. When I do this, what is this going to do to the filemaker serer installation running on this machine?

We are running Filemaker 5.5 Server and recently have run into a problem. Filemaker was working fine then suddenly it starts with -20 Cummincation errors. Randomly Filemaker client will display a error window saying -20 Commincations error. We have replaced all the network hardware we can, moved Filemaker to a new server, and made sure none of the computers use Sleep mode. We use Filemaker 5.5 Client on Windows 2000 and XP machines. Server is 5.5 on Windows Server 2003. We have kind of run out of ideas if anyone has dealt with this or has an idea it would be appreciated.

Our FMP database is hosted on an iMac, and somehow, it restarted in the middle of the day with users connected to several of the databases. After that, the server never actual run again because it checks the "integrity" and stuck on forever. We able to open each databases individually on the server itself. They check the integrity and open. Is our database corrupt? Our previous FMP Admin set a backup schedule everyday. How difficult is it to restore the data? Is it better to recover or import the data back? Thank you for your advice,

Hi everyone I am quite new to Filemaker and have come across a problem this morning after a non-expected server shutdown. Basically, my client PC's cannot connect to the databases held on the FM Server. The error I get is: File "dbase_name.fp5" could not be opened: a database with that name (or the same initial 31 characters) is already open; please rename one of the files. Obviously dbase_name is a substituation for the actual database name. I have tried stopping and starting the FM server service, rebooting the server etc, as soon as FM Server starts I get the above message and clients cannot connect to the main database. Is there anyway of fi…

I have a small FM solution running on Server 8 at work, and want to see the files on my home FileMaker 8 client by remote access. What firewall and networking settings do I need on the server and at home? Server has a static IP address. Any assist is greatly appreciated. ~Dennis

Hi, Does anyone know if Filemaker 5.5 Server will work properly with MS 2003 Small Business Server? I would be so grateful for some help as we have been told to upgrade from Windows NT 4. Thanks. Roger

This office just ordered a second DSL line just for the FM Server. The reason for this is that the dbs need to be accessed remotely, and the networking guy said that the network performace would be badly affected within the office (when accessed from the outide clients) unless FMS wasn't on a separate DSL line. So ... yesterday I connected the server to the new DSL line and guess what ... performance is terrible! I was expecting some performance cost since now the clients would have to access a static IP that, even though is within the office, it's like accessing a remote db. So the question is: can this second line be connected to the office network (somekind o…

FMS 8v2 running on a W2003 server, go to "open remote > local hosts" from client and the (local) server only appears "sometimes". When the client connects, it disconnects after a few minutes (the "disconnect when iddle" is not checked neither on the priviledge set nor in the server config) I upgraded to v4, same behaviour. On the other hand, if instead of going to "local hosts", the local IP (something like 192.168.1.111) is added to "favorites" (or typed directly), the databases open without problem. I didn't have time to wait and see if the clients get disconnected after a while, although it looks fine. I'm keeping my fingers crossed ... I have to say that …

I am curious what exactly does the backup do?. Does it write the file in a contiguous format or just an exact copy? Does it do any maintenance while writing such as compacting? The reason I am asking is we had a problem file last night that wouldn't open after starting the service. I restored the file from the previous backup and that opened fine. Is it a good practice to restore files from backups periodically or just do the file maintenance on them periodically (compact and optimize)? Is there a difference? Any input would be appreciated.

I have successfully mounted an offsite ftp volume on Mac OS X Server. Now, I am trying to schedule a backup to go to it but the scheduler is not accepting any iterations of the mounted volume pathname. Should it not be ftp:/sysvol/mounted server vol/ ftp:/mounted server vol does not work either It is not validating the path. What am I missing? Thanks, Dick

Problem on windows small business server 03... Can't shut down FMS 8 service. It tries for 10 minutes and then tells me it couldn't be shut down. (I had to do this for an update, normally its resilliance would make me happy The only work around ive found is changing the startup type to disabled and restarting the system. Anyone know what the issue might be, or experiencing it themselves? Cheers, ~Genx

I am on a PC with FM admin connecting to a remote Windows server. I want to be able to close files, copy them off locally to work on, then replace. I believe I read that even if you close the file via Admin, you should ALSO stop the service before doing anything with the files. Is that a must? But CAN I just close then replace files* without stopping the service? PPS I decided to close, stop and replace contents of "live" directory. I left a note for IT to start in AM. It turns out stopping the service hung on "stopping", and although help app was running, the service was hung and inaccessible remotely. Also, IT dept was NOT stopping starting servi…

Hello, i am getting these messages in the log: Oct 31 16:31:22 fmserver INFO: Could not pause file "employee.fp5" because of an outstanding database lock from guest "Some Username". Basically when this happens, it freezes up my whole Server and noone can login anymore. The onyl thing giving relief is rebooting the server, and reverting to an old copy of the database. Any ideas how to help this? My current Filemaker Server Version is 5.5 v4

Hi, In addition to our schedule backup, we use to do do another backup from a workstation by copying the files from the server's shared folder into the workstation's hdd without issue. We needed to reinstall FMS5.5 for some reason. Now we are are getting this error when we do backup from the workstation: "The process can't access the file because another process has locked a portion of a file." Note that there is no active user(s) during the backup. Please help. Thanks in advance, Garry

I have some databases hosted on Server 5.5v4, MacOS 10.3.9. When you click "Stop Server," it never will stop, just says it will take several minutes, but never finishes. Rather than force quit, I restart the Mac (from the menu), but when it comes back, it says the DB's are damaged, even to open them in FM 6.0v4. I always recovered, then imported into a good clone, not using a recovered database. I have formatted the hard drive, installed a new 10.3, upgraded it to 10.3.9, installed a fresh Server, upgraded it to v4, problem persists. Any ideas???

I recently installed OS X Server 10.4 on a G4 933Mhz. 1GB RAM machine, brought it to 10.4.8, installed FMS8v2 and Web publishing. Downloaded 8.0v4 fms & fmsweb updaters. Stopped the Server from FMS Admin (on the local host), ran the server updater, it tells me it is going to do its work on the correct volume, but the updater is "not responding". After this, I cannot connect to the server with FMS Admin: "Connection Failure". Could not connect to FileMaker Server "(localhost)" (127.0.0.1)" .... until reboot. I've rebooted, re-downloaded the installer, etc., many times. I later tried upgrading the WPE (after stopping that service), and that updater worked…

Hi guys A client is using FMS on Windows (not sure of the OS but it is Server of some sort). I only use Windows XP for testing and have not come across the '_MACOSX' folder in the Databases list before. What is this folder, why does it appear and why are all files closed? (screen grab attached). The error log says "Database ._WI_IF.fp7 could not be opened: not a FileMaker Pro database." They also have an issue with a file not opening, but a compacted copy seems to work ok (I've told them not to use a recovered file!) Thanks in advance for any help.

We still use FM 5.5 with our clients, hey if it works.... I just did an upgrade for a client from 4.x to 5.5 because they just went from older iMacs to the snazzy cool pre-intel iMacs. I upgraded them to 5.5 on the workstations (10.4.8?) and server (which is still running 9.2). The problem: They keep getting dumped. The workstations keep getting dropped from the server. When it happened (while I was on-site) I thought that the workstation had gone to sleep and dropped the connection. We went through and set so that the hard drive does not sleep and the TCP/IP connection doesn't drop. I heard that this may be an issue with some versions of tiger. If this is…

I have an out-of-state client running FM Server on 2003 Server. I've been able to open their FM files remotely (me as a FM client) and work on them without a problem until their server froze up a few days ago. Now if I try to open their hosted FM files remotely, I can see them listed under Available Files in the Open Remote dialog, but when I try to open them I get the dialog "FileName.fp7 could not be opened. Either the host is not available, or the file is not available on that host." BTW Users on the client's LAN can open the hosted files without a problem. Tried restarting FM services, and tried rebooting server Does anyone have any idea what's going…

Some issues with OS X 10.4.8 are being reported, and I'm wondering if these affect FileMaker? 1. 4D has found a serious calculation bug: http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?fid/144/tid/181094 2. Folks are reporting other calculation issues. Since 10.4.8 supposedly "Improves the accuracy of Rosetta numerics and addresses Altivec translation issues on Intel-based Macs." it's plausible that something has indeed changed. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304200 Is FileMaker affected? Anyone out there have a self-auditing solution that would catch any math changes?

I need to know how to configure FileMaker Server 7 to shutdown and restart on a weekly schedule. I'm guessing we will have to create a script to do this but I don't know where or how to start. I'm not IT so if you need to you can dumb it down a little. If not we have an IT guy in-house that I can involve.

I am running FMP Server 8.0v1 on an X serve running 10.4.8. When I enable the secure connections option in the FMP Server Admin (and perform the required restart), my databases no longer show up in the server admin or to a FMP8 client. The event log shows that SSL is enabled, and the databases have been opened. These databases all work fine when the secure connections option is not enabled. When I look back at the FMP Server8 Install Log, it references a directory called /Filemaker Server/Tools/fmiCA and some cert files being generated there. The fmiCA directory no longer exists, although I do have a root.pem & server.pem file in the Tools directory. I am…

I have a .bat file stored in the directory C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerDataScripts which activates a trigger.fp7 file in the same location. If i double-click on the .bat file it opens the trigger file. If i however make a scheduled task run the script nothing seems to happen. It runs the schedule with no errors but doesn't seem to activate the .bat file. I have tried various different .bat files and none of them seem to open from within a schedule. Confused...

Easy question ... can FMServer 8 run on FMS on "Windows Server 2003 for small business"? I see from the FM site that would work under "Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition SP1", but not sure if they are both pretty much the same or not ... sorry for the dummy question! Thanks in advanced

I'm running IWP services on an ISP-based FM8 server advanced. My question is about global fields which count visitors to the site and selected pages (these fields are a related side table). The fields are incremented in the scripts used to navigate to pages. Can a large number of simultaneous users ever throw off these counts? Every few weeks one or two of my counts are jumping off by many thousands.

Does anyone have a way to start Server 5.5 on MacOSX after the computer boots? I would like to use Energy Saver to shut down at 1:00am, then start up at 5:00 am, use Login items in Accounts preference panel to start Filemaker Server Config, but then how do I click the "Start Server" button unattended??? I would like to refresh the databases to reset the Today function, as well as having a daily reboot to refresh everything :-).

Have you had stability problems with FM Server and Mac OS X? I had big trouble with OS X 10.4 thru 10.4.2 and FM Server Advanced 7v2 and 7v3. My machine would become unresponsive every 2-3 weeks, requiring me to force-reboot and restore from the latest backup. I've been running OSX 10.4.3 and FMSA7v3 now and have 56 days of uptime without issue. So if you are looking for a stable combination, I'd suggest you try this.

problem... i just imported some new fm 8 files to my server and tried to remote-desktop them from my computer, but the darn things wount show up in fm8!?! it wirks fine with the old files ive got on the server (in the same folder), but the new one are missing. i tried restarting the server but that didn´t help. whats wrong?

I'm playing around with using "robot" users under OS X, and wanted to bounce around some ideas/tips. By "robot user" I mean a filemaker client that is connected to a filemaker server which processes various tasks automatically by staying in a ScriptMaker loop. This is sometimes necessary because many tasks can't be done from the filemaker server itself (such as sending an email via IWP, exporting data to PDFs, etc). Generally, this user has a dedicated mac all to themselves. Here are some ideas/questions I've had: 1. For sending emails, I have found that a robot user works pretty well. Configure apple Mail with the proper settings, etc. One probl…

I have a potential issue and would like some advice. I am installing two duplicate solutions on one network. There are two servers running FileMaker Server 5.5. Currently both server machines (mac mini's) are on the same ip range. I have experienced issues where if a user opens the solution over the network and has a copy on the local machine. FileMaker gets confused and opens some files on the server and the rest on the local machine. My fear is that if i have two identical solutions on two seperate machines on the same network a user may begin opening files on one server and then switch to the other. can anyone advise me if this is a potent…

I have been using FMS 8.04 to host several files just fine until today... today I updated XP to SP2 and after the update FMS starts and shows all files as normal as before but they are no longer visible remotely, it shows the computer name but no files! Tried re-installing FMS and same results, then un-installed FMS and used FMP 8 to host the files and they all show up remotely... What am I doing wrong, shall I re-install windows?

Am using FMS 5.5 Unlimited (not limited to x users). Currently serving about 30 databases (including related files). Suddenly getting the error " cannot be opened because it would exceed the host's capacity. Try again later." I thought this error could only be sprung if the databases were opened via a mounted volume. My users are definitely not opening files in this way. They're all using the Hosts button. And, on my FMS machine, two fmserverd daemons are definitely running. Any ideas why I'm seeing this odd behavior? Thanks very much

Any help sincerely welcome New (first time) installing FM server on a PC running Win2000 Pro. Installation went OK - and the sample files are open and being served across the LAN. So far so good. Then loaded a file developed in 8.5 Adv on a mac which will not be opened by FM Server. It stays "CLOSED". While other files are running fine. The file is set for Multi-user TCPIP sharing turned on. I suspect it may be a permissions problem, but all of the read & write boxes are checked for all users & groups in properties. Any idea what things might be keeping FM server from being able to open this file? Thanks again!!

Hi I'm running FMS 8 on a server loaded with Windows SBS 2003. The server is connected to a Network Address Storage tower and this is where i want the FM 8 database files to sit. Is it possible to change the location that the databases sit in with FMS 8. By default they seem to be located in C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerDataDatabases and I wondered if there was any way of chaning this? If not can any think of another way of mapping the data to the storage tower? I don't mind if other data is mapped there too, besides the FM databases. Nick Lindwall

Hi Guys, Ive got a bizarre thing happening here: I have four files, and I've tried hosting them on my server. 2 out of the 4 files seem to open (i.e hosted), the other two are closed. Whatever I do, I can't seem to turn them on. I've checked the usual suspects, i.e made sure the files are network [on], and cant seem to work out why the other two aren't hosted. My logs folder is empty so I'm not certain how to switch log control on. Any suggestions would be as always much appreciated, Im working on Server Advanced 8.0v4 and I've set minimum files to 5.

I am running Filemaker Pro Server version 5.5 and am looking for a way to open and close individual files. I was hoping to do this using the task scheduler if possible. Is this possible?

I am using Filemaker Server 8 Adv. to server some database file(s) i am currently developing on. This is rather convinient for me so people can already use parts of the System i am developing, and i am sure that my work is correctly backed up based on the schedules i set. But is working (defining fields, accounts, creating layouts etc) via a remote lan client on server hosted files safe to do? are there issues i need to be aware of? thanks for any advice, overrider

Hi I will be looking at upgrading my FMS Mac soon and was looking at a Mac Pro or the soon to be released Intel Xserve. Has anyone had any problems using a Mac Pro to host there FMS DB and if so should I stick to a G5 Tower or Xserve.

"xfile is damaged do you want to continue yes no" I have seen this error on and off over the years and it seems not to be what it says. In fact choosing yes to continue seems to be the right answer. The files invloved are often different and were all "clean room developed" (never crashed- recovered etc). Recovery seems to do nothing to help. FM is generally very clear about a dammaged file and won't let you in untill it thinks it is fixed. Any ideas what this message means?

I'm sorry this is a dumb question for most of you but how do I put databases from my computer, (Windows Professional XP, Filemaker Pro 8 Advanced), on my server, (FileMaker Server 8, Windows XP)? Do I have to create a CD of the databases and go to the server and physically load them? I thought I could do this through the server Admin program on my PC? I'm not seeing that capability or I'm not understanding the instructions. Please help!

I'm just starting the process of upgrading my 60 dbs into FM7/8, but the FMS 7 speed when opening the converted files is concerning. FMS 7 is running on a G5, dual 2GHz and 2Gb RAM but this is significantly slower WHEN OPENING FILES than FMS 5.5 (OS9) on a G4/450 and 512Mb RAM. All the latest upgrades have been applied to both systems. Please understand that I know how to do the conversion so I already corrected the file references (not that these would affect FMS 7), however it takes 5 - 10 minutes to open the files, whereas FMS 5.5 has them (the originals) open in around 30 seconds. I don't have FMS 8 (yet) so can anyone tell me if there is a performance …

Is it possible to use Apache and the Web Publishing engine on a windows 2000 server. Attempting to install FMS 8 and the web publishing engine and it appears to only allow IIS...

Anyone got FileMaker Server 5.5 working on a DUAL G5 satisfactory? Ive got a client that wants to use this machine as a new server, and ditch the old G3, but I know hosting using FileMaker 6 causes all sorts of errors, just wondering what the situation is like with FileMaker Server. Many Thanks

Hi Everyone, I've had this problem with both FM Server 7 and FM Server 8. Using the FM Server Admin tool to connect from within the network is fine. However, connecting from anywhere else does not work. The firewall is set up correctly, allowing communication from anywhere to ports 5003, 50003, and 50006. Connecting to a hosted database from a external network (using Filemaker Developer 8 and Filemaker Developer 7) works without issues. I'm using MacOS X Server 10.4.7. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks very much, Cobra

okay, the IT is out this week and a user needs to be added to the FM Server. he thought he was on but this error message keeps popping up. "the account and password you entered cannot be used to access this file. please try again." it's not the client because other logins work. can anyone help with how to add users to the FM Server? thanks in advance :

I'm writing for the company I work for. The owner needs some help with the server. We have a connection to the FM Server because it is showing the Samples files provided by FM on the server. We can't however, see the main database that we use. It says that the connection is "Closed". If he tries right clicking and Connecting to "All databases" then it says "Checking" for a split second and then goes back to "Closed". He would like to know how to restore the file...just where to begin. Any help? Thanks :(

Can oracle and FMS 8 be run on the same server without and issues?

I know, an odd question but just to be make this clear: Can FMS7 serve FM8 (or 8.5) clients as they use the same file format (fp7)? When purchasing FM8.5 you probably have to upgrade to FMS8 as well. I understand there's no server 8.5 in the frame or is there? Thanks, Stevie

Hi Guys, Tried to do a search on the above error, but the search wasn't working in the forums. Has anyone encountered this error when they try to quit FileMaker server from the console. FileMaker Server just seems to hang when I try stopping the service, I dont know the impact it is having on my files when I continually switch off the server from the mains whilst logged into the operating system. Im using Winsows 2000 SP4 on an Athlon machine with 512MB of RAM. I also have Server Advanced installed, which have both been updated to v4.

Hi there I am having some trouble installing the Server 8.0v4 upgrade on a clients xServe. When the installer is run, it 'searches' for ever. I force quit after an hour of waiting. Am I ok to use 8.0v2, and does anyone have any advice on how I can install this update? --- OK, I've sorted it out now. I hadn't stopped all the FMServer processes. Had to force quit them in Activity Monitor.

Alright so I have gone through the IWP instalation guide on fm's downloads website. The sample database is sharing and works great however, None of my other databases are showing up on the web accessable database list (localhost/fmi/config filemakerserer> publish databases). I cant figure out what I'm doign wrong Please Help!

Hello FMP Gurus, I have an odd issue that hopefully someone here has come across before... We have a server with a boot and data partition. The FMP database files reside on the Data partition. We also have a FW hard drive that is partitioned exactly like the server's hard drive, and receives clones nightly. Our database seems to be just keeping the changes we make in RAM but not flushing its RAM cache to disk like it should. Thus when the server is restarted, all changes since last restart are lost!! Bad news. The modification dates on the FMP DB files do not update. I see its possible to distribute the cache flush over a certain amount of time, and we ha…

Setting up a FM8 Advanced Server on a G5 running OSX Server (not an xServe). I've set up FM8 Server Admin on my local machine, everything runs as I would expect it to. I can open and close files etc. From this same machine, when I launch FM8 Advanced client I can only see some of the files on the remote server. I see the sample file, a test file and a couple of files that were converted over from FM6. There are two others that don't show up in the list. All files do show up in the FM Server Admin list of databases and all are running (i.e. Normal status). We've checked permissions and every file is set the same way. Today I added a file called Clients which…

I am running into a problem with Filemaker 8 server. The problem is that I have roughly about 115 databases being hosted on the server and when I have to close all the databases and reboot the server and rehost all the databases it takes a VERY long time for each database to open so that there hosted for my openers to work. Were running with a 3.6 Zeon with 1gb of ram. Anyone run into this issue?? Thanks!

Hi all, We have FMS 5.5 installed on an OS X machine, with about 15 clients (mostly running OS X, but a few running XP) which connect. The way we normally go in is to click open File -> Open Remote. While this is still working, there is suddenly a tremendous delay in the amount of time it takes to load up the file list. Whereas before it would load in 10 seconds or so, it now takes a minute or more. This just started today. We haven't had any other network issues, and I tried stopping FMS and restarting the machine. The load is also quite low - 0.10 or less. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this delay?

I just installed FMS7A and ran the latest updates. I opened the Admin utility, logged in and changed the password and turned on the secure connections option. Now I can not log back into the server. I tried to log in from both the computer running the server and a remote machine on our LAN but the server is not accepting my password. How can I reset the password?

Hi all, First, let me apologize if I am reposting a previously answered question. I searched, both this site and others, and didnt' find anything that would answer my question. We are currently running FM Server 5.5 on Windows 2003 Server. We are gearing up for moving to Server 8. Assuming that the hardware is capable, is it possible to run 5.5 and 8 on the same server, both from an install/execution space standpoint, and from file serving and potential cross-pollination perspective. Thanks, Kelly

I've a FMP7 server on windows 2003, Use FMP 8v3 client (but also 7 client and its the same) When I am in my solution and quit fmp, it takes ages to quit (40s at least) with heavy network traffic (>900Kb/s). There's no script to do on quit, I'm wondering what's that amount of chat and if there's anything I can do about it

Since updating Filemaker Server 8 with the v4 updater I get the following error whenever I stop the Filemaker Server Service and then restart it. EVENT # 15926 EVENTLOG Application EVENT TYPE : ERROR (1) SOURCE : SLSocket54 EVENT ID : 0 TIME : 7/25/2006 7:10:31 AM MESSAGE : SLSocket54@localhost,ErrorCode=3021,ErrorMessage=Internal error, unable to load the server configuration file %s. It seems to be caused by having "Allow Odbc Connections" enabled. Does anyone know more about this error and why it is occuring and how to rectify it???