FileMaker Server 13

Hello, Currently I am having an issue displaying remote container fields with interactive content (PDFs) on an FMS 13 Server box. JPEGS/PNG display just fine. To describe the issue in detail: A local database will display the interactive PDFs in a remote container field. When the the database is hosted with FMS 13 the container field displays an IIS error message. IIS (v7) hosts a website that is unrelated to this database I have stopped the websites hosted with IIS without any success. Has anybody encountered anything like this is before? I will gladly describe in more detail if the information is insufficient. -B

Hi I've made a filemaker 13 database which all works ok with container fields set to ext storage and you can see the pdf's when looking at the fields all ok, but after I upload it to a filemaker server on a windows 2012 server I can no longer see the pdf's in the fields. only by exporting the content and showing it a viewer. Any ideas why it isn't showing in filemaker now it's on server. Thanks in advance Clive

Frankly I did know in which section to post my question. It's related to fm server, fm go, scripting, etc. I currently have an update system for my fm go solution that works like this. 1. User syncs his data . 2. User downloads an (almost) empty version of the database that is stored in a container field of an another hosted database. 3. User syncs to get his data. This works well except that the full sync process at step 3 can take too much time since the user will have thousands of personalized records across many tables. What I would like to do is to replace the database that is stored in the container field by a version of the full database that w…

Has anyone gotten a 'lock conflicts' before?  This morning and again this evening, FileMaker has quit responding and then I get 'connection lost' message.  Here is what shows in Admin Console (attached).  Prior to today, I never had an issue accessing this remote host.  They just began implementing frequent incremental backups every 10 minutes (because of my remote work using weak connection).  Could there be a connection (LOL)?  I am on 10.9.5 13.0v3 and server is on latest updater. I suppose it is because I've never worked this way before; it would make sense that, if it must pause the database that I can't be in the middle of a schema change, right?  B…

In the mid 90's our city got burned by a proprietary digital scaning/storage system, and we have 2 years of data that is all but unreadable. We are a bit gunshy on moving to full digital, but it looks like we are "pulling" the trigger, and FM containers have won the confidence of our end-users and administration. I'm responsible for implementing this system, and I want to take the best long-range approach I can. I'm confident on the longevity of FM (we've been using it since the early 90's) - but I do need to plan for a worst case scenario. There certainly may come a day when I need access to these documents, not through Filemaker. So - the question is - should…

Hello, Â I'm trying to create a schedule script that will run every 20 min, but I can't get it working. Actually, I created the schedule, if I run it, it's working, but it wont run every 20min. Â Please, see attached file to see how I did my setup, as you can see, blue underlined script named "Update running campaign status" should run every 20min, but if you check the "Next Run" state, it will run only once next day. Â Â Am I missing something? Â Â Thanks for your help. Â Â PS : Of corse I tried to wait to see if this was just a display related issue, but the script will really not run until the next day.

Hey group, I have a DB running my office. It's working great. I would like to run a particular script on a specific day and time of the week. Anyone know how? Sorry o should have mentioned the DB is running on FileMaker server.

We are a team of 5 working on a hosted database solution locally via FM Pro 11, we just upgraded to FMS 13 and now we need to set it up on a new server. At present we run a 2009 Mac mini with 8GB and we are considering to buy a new 2.6Ghz, 8GB mini running OS X Yosemite. As a second option I would get a Windows PC with a similar spec. Which OS do you think it performs better with FMS 13? If a Mac mini does the job, which setup should I choose: CPU, drive (hard? Fusion? flash?) Thanks,

Interesting case: - FMS 13 on windows Server 2008 - Occasionally (apparently near same time a back up runs (not progressive) FMS goes unresponsive, unable to open files, unable to access via XML CWP and WD also. - FMS is accessed via Clients, WebDirect and XML CWP at the same time. - Windows logs do not show any funky activity - I have seen It 'Appears' when a script is running (previously scheduled) and a backup run at the same time FMS hangs. Restarting fmsServer and AdminServer fixes the issue. Has anyone encountered an issue like this? Charles Delfs

Hi, I'am installing filemaker server 13 on turkish windows. Admin console remain in the first step and will not proceed. But when installing filemaker server 13 on english windows, admin console is running and can go to the next step. Is there a solution for installation on Turkish windows ? Thanks.

Hello, I have a known power outage coming tomorrow. I don't think it should impact my server, however I want to be safe. Will turning FileMaker Server 13 off cause any issues when I turn it back on after the outage? I know the machine itself will auto-restart once power is reconnected at which point I'll go back in and restart FMServer, but I don't want any of the files themselves to be damaged when I know of this possibility in advance.

Hello, When trying to Perform Script on Server I get the following error dialog box, on the client that triggered the script: "The account name and password you entered does not match those for any Filemaker account" As a test, I setup a Server-Side Script with the same Full Access credentials as the user trying to run the PSOS. This Server-Side Script executed successfully. Also, there is no problems logging into the database, for any of the users. I can only Perform a Script on Server, if I log into the file as a 'Guest'. Setup 1 single database on FMS 13.0.5 on Mac OS X Mavericks (not OS X Server) FMP 13.0.5 client on Windows 7 I need …

I use FileMaker Pro 13 on a server at our main location. All 20 computers at that location work fine. I have 4 other locations within a 400 mile radius and these have serious speed problems while connected thru a vpn. We have about 1,400 products and one photo of each product in our database. When the remote locations view our computer catalog, they have to wait for the photos to load. Most photos are jpeg or gif and under 15k, and on the server. I tried hosting our files on 2 different web hosts, but there was no speed improvement for our remote locations and our main location suffered tremendous speed loss. We are back to hosting at our main location, but I want…

Hi Using a remote console i don't seem to be able to get the file download action to occur. It spins a few gears but nothing ever arrives. Connection on a local machine does work though. I'm currently connected to the server network via VPN and have tried both the local IP and the domain to connect to the console. thanks

Hi All, I am reaching a crossroads where I need WebDirect and need to move from my shared host. Ideally I would like a VPS solution. I am an MSDN subscriber and was wondering if I can use a Azure VM to host my FM server and WebDirect environment? Has anyone done this with any success? If not what are the best options for me? Many thanks

Hi Board! I have Server 13 and a client that keeps dropping the connection over wifi. I can't put a cable there and run directly over ethernet. Well, I could, but It's not really an option. Is there a way to get the client to reconnect when the connection is dropped? Harry

Hi, I have a question concerning Separate File Format and extended privileges, hosted on a FM Server. Where should I put the account information and the privileges? In the script file or the database file? When the user installs a new version of the script file, I don't want him to have to redefine all the extended privileges. Any solutions? Thanks!

Hi there, I have a client who is using windows server 2008 and running thin clients for all users. ie. each user logs in to the server using their own profile. I need to setup FMS for a couple of specific reasons - external access from ipads, scheduled scripts, multiple users connecting at the same time. I've read that FMS and FM Pro should NOT be on the same machine. I have very little experience with FMS (only used it as a hosted solution previously) so I'm not clear on if this setup will work. If FM server is running on the server, can the users (who are accessing the server through thin clients) run FM pro to access the served files? eg. through op…

I have just one database amongst quite a few on our server that provokes the error "The maximum number of licensed users are currently using this copy of FileMaker Pro" every time some one tries to open it. This of course makes the Filemaker client close down completely and makes opening the file from the server impossible. Filemaker support told me that it was undoubtedly because there was an external data source that was referencing an IP address outside of the local network (even if the IP address is on the local network) and that when the signal comes back to the client, Filemaker mistakes it for another client with the same serial number. I have been through all t…

I know how to manually install plugins on FileMaker Server 13 but I am struggling to find clear and concise step-by-step instructions that explain how to install server plugins using the new scripted install method. The official FileMaker Server 13 documentation is extremely lacking in details. It explains how to enable the feature to allow plugins to run on the server but where are the instructions for installing them via a script? Does anyone have a good resource for learning how to do this? Also...where do you enter the license information for server plugins? Thanks.

Ok. Long time user. In house developer. We ran FMS 7-9 reliably with a fixed cost. Now between the poor user experience managing and installing FMS 11-13 and the very much greater cost associated with FMS 13 we are NOT pleased. Go ahead. Convince me to continue using FMS.

I install the 13 trial of server on my mom's macbook. She said it was ok. It gave me a icon with the admin console but I have a file I want to put in it and when I select the file and want to upload to server, it asks for information I do not know wants address. nothing I try works and I can't find anywhere there is information about how to start if someone doesn't know what they are doing. How do I start please and where is information on it? How do I find what to enter in the address?

My solution has a Home layout dashboard with buttons that are conditionally formatted to monitor the addition of records into certain tables. When records are added to the tables, the button turns red. Populating the tables with data from outside my environment is being done every 30 min via a FileMaker Server 13 scheduled script. As I monitor the Home layout, the server-run script cannot refresh my objects so that I can see them turn red in real time. Does anyone know of a work-around that would allow the script to trigger refreshes where appropriate? Or perhaps you've pursued another strategy to make this concept work? Thanks!! Scott

I'm trying to move the backup path from one NAS to another on our Windows domain. The existing path is simply filewin://<servername>/corp/FMS-backup/ (corp/ is a share on that server, and yes, even with the extra slash after "filewin" the path still validates. The new path is filewin:/<differentservername>/services/backups/fms-backup/ (services/ is a share on the new server). This path will not validate, either with or without the extra slash after filewin. We've tried mapping <differentserver>/services/ to a driveletter, but that won't validate, either. In fact, no path to any machine on our network other than the server where backups currently are,…

Hi All, My account on the web console only has "status", "activity" and "schedules". No one here knows of a master password that has any privileges above this account. I cannot seem to do anything other than view. What I am trying to do is setup a new schedule. Is there a standard master password that is set by default with FM server that I can try? Many thanks

The scenario is Local mac with plugin base element. Server mac fms server13 with plugin base element. ------------------------------------------ The server side script job is: List the backup folders Select the last backup and set $$folderPath Set the $$SourceFolderFilePath Set theDestination $$FolderFileRenamedPath /*The Job*/ Duplicate and rename the file on the server backup folder to my "service" folder ------------------------------------------ This doesn't work: a local file call a server side script of my job This doesn't work. This it work: Open the file on the server were there is the script of my job. Lunch the script as server side scr…

My question is is there anything other than a bad login attempt (i.e. mistyped Username and/or Password) that can trigger a “authentication failed on database” error in a FM 13 Server log? I have a client who every once in a while seems to have login problems where users on the system (A Windows Server 12 LAN) can’t log on and typing too fast or sloppy is the only thing I can think of that could be causing them that problem. Is there anything else I should consider or look for?

Hi, i was running FMS13 on windows 8.1 pro but I am upgrading the network so I have built a new server thats running server 2012 R2. Ive installed FMS13 with all of the updates but the IP address that is displayed in the admin console is different to the systems IP address. The machine is setup to be the domain controller and hosts all of the profiles and is the file server for the network. The machine thats running 8.1 at the moment is then going to be upgrade to Server 2012 R2 and run the website and exchange server. Can anybody offer any advice? if you need to know anymore information just ask. Thanks Edit. Forgot to say the machine has 3 network cards setup as a N…

Hi Guys, Been butting my head all morning trying to figure out what was going on. The DB I maintain handles a lot of stuff, including invoices and payments (and customers of course). Invoices can be paid immediately and on a plan (ie, a weekly, fortnighly or monthly payment, either via a direct bank debit or CC debit). This of course makes life a lot more complex than simpel instant payment of invoices with just a single payment. The DB of course has heaps of master tables and TO's. This morning I was working on a forecasting report of products that are to be made in the next few weeks. The idea is that our production manager can run it over any period needed. That p…

Hello, I have not managed an FM server before and just need to make this one work a bit longer until we can retire it. It seems the previous administrator who recently left used his own account for certain tasks with FM and that we've reset the account it keeps getting locked out by the FM 13 server. I do not see any services set to start as his AD user account, nor any scheduled tasks in Windows. I've browsed through the web admin console, but don't see anything that is clearly tied to his account. Is there somewhere in this console I should be able to see things like that? Thanks, tim

So . . . It's clear at this point that FMS will not run a on a machine running Yosemite. What about client machines running Yosemite accessing FMS on a machine NIT running Yosemite? I'm assuming this is fine but wanted to check with others before updating my client machines.

From what I've seen in other threads it's not considered best practice to run FM Pro and FM Server on the same server. I currently run FM Pro Advanced on a FM Server for doing my own updates to a master copy of my application. This copy is not accessed by anyone else but me when I am making updates. I have never had any issues with file corruption doing this. I currently run two separate servers for my users. They use Remote Desktop to connect to a multi-user copy of FM Pro on one server and then do a Open Remote to open their particular application on the other server (which is of course running FM Pro). My understanding is that it would work fine to run the…

I'm about to jump on a plane so I can't test much before posting, but Web Server and Web publishing are turned on and show as active (green) but php, Xml and web direct are show as disabled even though they are checked on. Any thoughts. Cheers.

Hi Although my console is accessible I can't make changes to a number of things anymore such as closing a database. Some items are greyed out such as changing the custom folder for database storage and if I turn off the database server it is still "on" when I relog into the console. I seem to be able to make some changes to general settings. I thought it might be a permissions thing but as I cannot disconnect a user either the issue is not directly database related. I have also tried the console both on the local machine and remotely. Im on version 13 v5

Hi All, I'm not sure the best place to post it so we'll go here first. This has happened twice now and it is starting to scare me: I've had two different customers using similar but different FM databases on my FM server report the same issue. On one of the job records as the user was entering data on FM Go, the screen flashed and the job disappeared. Another user went on to FM Pro to look at the record and saw the job, but when he clicked on it, it did the same thing. Now when I look, there is a blank record in the database. No questions marks, just all blanks. When I perform a find on the job using the information that we know about it, that record comes up, but no…

I'm currently working on a solution that has a fairly complex client-side export that takes place multiple times per day by multiple users. Users are able to create their own custom exports using an interface with a list of available fields and then export to a formatted spreadsheet with custom header rows for readability. Some of the fields that they are exporting contain large un-stored calculations that need to be calculated on the fly, so larger exports (in my case, 800ish records with many, many sub-records) can take in excess of 10 minutes to process. I was hoping to speed up that process by offloading the export to the server however I've found that for my ex…

I have installed FMS13 in Windows Server 2012 R2, after I deployed my databases manually, in the activity section in the web admin console, it shows all my database are closed in the status column and could not find a way to start them, any idea? thank you. Regards

I am attempting to build a set of found records and then Import them into another table using the Import Records script step inside of a script that is being performed on the server. When I call the PSoS script, I am current getting an error 100: The file cannot be found when I try to call the Import Records script step and use the name of the Filemaker File. According to the tech docs @ Filemaker, this Script Step should be supported by PSoS with 2 notable exceptions; File, where the garget for the import is 'New Table' or 'Import - Folder'. (Unless I'm incredible obtuse and 'New Table' doesn't actually mean "new table" but instead "any table you did not start the …

Comparing 2009 xserve to mac mini for hosting. Maybe it’s an anachronism to go with Xserve at the moment, and certainly the ports leave much to be desired, but I can find the 2009 2.26 four core zeon at $999, wich seems like a great price. Is there anyone that would opt for the xserve as opposed to a mac mini for a 50 strong company db with 5-6 concurrent connections? Thanks.

I've been tasked with setting up FM SERVER 13 at our office. We already have a Mac Mini running 10.9.5 Server with the following services: Calendar (8008, 8443) Contacts (8800, 8843) File Sharing (548) Time Machine VPN (various ports) I've been told that I must use a separate machine to run FM Server 13. We happen to have a good Mac Mini i5 for the job so this is not a problem. So I'm going to install it on that. My question comes down to the ports FMS needs to use which are 80 and 443. Do I need to be concerned with port forwarding of these ports? Do they both need to be forwarded to the FMS box? If so won't that affect other services on the OS X Server? …

Hello im planing to install fm server on windows server 2012 that is used to run an exchange server . Is this recomended or i will get problems on future? My server solution will serve 10 users . And actually the exchange server is managing about 15 email accounts. Please let me know your recomendations i will aprecciate Thank you

We have released version 2 of our Virtual Host Guide and tool, which supports FileMaker Server 13.0v5 and Yosemite, as well as the Mavericks and Mountain Lion, which is the supported versions by FMI. News in this version: The new guide will work with FileMaker Server 13.0v5 and Yosemite, as well as other supported versions. There are several new tips and tricks included in the “goodies” section. The new tool is now completely unlocked and does not use plugin anymore. Also new in this version is support for SSL. You can read more and download from here: http://www.datamanix.com/news/files/FMS-virtualhost-guide-tool-v2.html Feedback is very appreciated.

I'm having a FMS13 server install issue. I've uninstalled and installed FMSE about 5 times. I cannot get my plugins and or web server to connect. I've used the uninstall app and removed all folders and prefs from the Library folder. I install version 1 then apply the updates, v3, v4 then v5. Nothing. Running 10.10.1 and running java 7. Anyone have any ideas before I completely wipe my MacMini server? I have the Yosemite server app, but all services are off.

We have two FileMaker servers on our LAN. One is running FMS12 and the other one is running FMS13. How can I control which server WAN users are routed to? We have users accessing the servers from (Desktop, FMGO, and Web Publishing). Thanks.

I have a Mac Mini running Yosemite with Java 8 update 25. I downloaded Filemaker server 13.0.520 and it will not install. It says I have a invalid version of java. Does anyone know how to get it to work?? thanks

For some time now, we have been seeing crashes of FileMaker Server 13 when using container fields that are being populated with PDF files. The crashes are infrequent, random, and quite frustrating. I am posting again to see if anyone has any input into this, had any success in resolving this issue, etc. FileMaker's support has been unsuccessful in resolving the issue to-date. I do know numerous other folks are experiencing the same issue. What we're running: OS X Server 10.8 (supported OS as per FileMaker's web site) FileMaker Server 13v4 What happens: FileMaker Server occasionally crashes when PDFs are being inserted into container fields Suspicions: …

I have a scripted import of a found count (about 500 records) to another table. It works well locally. However, in FileMaker Server 13...no luck. My process: 1. Find the records 2. Change layout to new table 3. Import the found records in 1. In server something is failing. I think it might be the import path. Can anyone provide some advice? Thank you. The literature is often discussing imports of excel files, etc. thanks Todd

I was a bit surprised to notice that I can not check 'Minimum version allowed' to 13 in a file while it is being served. I just wanted to verify that others experience same thing. My thinking is that, since we are IN the file, and if anyone is in the file, FileMaker can not test & prohibit a User from opening the file so instead it just disallows the action across the board. I would think FM would be capable of testing that currently there are no 12 served Users in itself and would allow the checkmark.

Greetings all, My company has a remote virtual Windows Server 2012 instance set up with an installation of FileMaker Server 13. One issue we are seeing in the logs and have experienced ourselves is that occasionally a FileMaker client is getting kicked off the server even though the user is actively using a hosted file. The error is as follows: 'Client "Fake Person" no longer responding; connection closed. (10)'. I have tried to research what might cause this error. My understanding is that FileMaker Server will periodically ping connected clients to verify the connection. If the ping fails, the user is disconnected. In that case, the previously mentioned error will s…

Hi all We have recently installed a new instance of FileMaker 13 server to replace our version 10. An issue we're having is that because 13 server seems to install its own instance of Apache we need have this run scripts in cgi-bin Has anyone done this? or configured 13 server to use another version of Apache rather than its own installed version? In previous versions you just used OS X server version of Apache and it was easy ... not now. Can anyone help or offer any advice? Many thanks Marc

I've got my FileMaker Server all set up and the web publishing turned on. The issue i'm having is that when i go to my address i get the following I'm wanting to access the server and make the changes to the database but unsure how to. I've tried looking into the user guides and haven't really found it helpful. There might be a bug or something if someone could help me out. Â I've got the web publishing on and the server turned on. Â Also when i add /fmi/iwp/ to the end i get the folowing I've followed the user guides the best i can but still getting these errors. Â Please help

Late 2013mac pro 12 core 2.7gHz  OS = 10.9.5  FMS = 13.0v4  Attached graphic shows elapsed wait time on the same piece of hardware and databases with similar number of clients doing simliar day to day work.  Day 1 with 64 gig of RAM ( half to FMS ), and Day 2 with 16 gig of RAM ( half to fms )  All performance metrics look to have improved with less memory. This of course defies my logic.  Does anyone have any insights?  Thank you, Drew

Hey there, I'm currently building a web interface that interacts with our filemaker solution (FM Server 13) and have run into some performance issues. We have a table which has 161,000 records, and I am exposing 6 of its fields via a layout. When I run a filemaker find command via the API, looking for specific values in 3 of these fields, it takes extremely long for the results to be returned (up to a minute sometimes). The result is usually 1 or 2 records. For what its worth, I have another table with 73,000 records that does not have performance issues. I've tried to use xdebug to profile my PHP code, and the majority of the response time is this one findCommand…

Hello, I currently have 3 databases running on filemaker server through a dedicated server. I understand form the filemaker server settings we can set the maximum amount of users that are allowed to be connected to the server. However, is there a way to set the amount of maximum users allowed to connect to a specific database? In one of the databases I would only like to to allow 1 user to connect to the database at a time. Giving priority to the first connection. Is this possible?

Hello, I have been using FMS to host my databases for quite some time and I have had relatively no issues. Recently, we have had a bunch of employees adding records and data. As the database gets larger it seems that we are having problems. Right now the server is running on a dedicated machine with 4 VCPU cores, 4 Gb Ram, and windows server 2008 R2. The data is transferred via the hospital network that the database is hosted in, which is relatively fast. The problem I am having is so bizarre. All of my scripts run slow except when they have the script step "New Record request". Even clicking the button "New record" causes the database to load for a good 3 mi…

We setup FMS 13 Trial and it works exactly as expected. And although FileMaker does make an effort to make deployment easy, in actual practice it's not really easy for casual users like me. I spent quite a bit of time online figuring things out that were actually simple. Now it works, but we are using the trial, which runs out in a few weeks. I'm looking at our options. Our situation: We need shared access to our database between two users and we need it for two years at the most. My co-author and I are collecting data for a forthcoming book. We are physically separated by about 30 miles. I am a very long-term user of FileMaker Pro so I set up a database that we could…

Anyone ever gotten FMS 13 to install alongside WAMP (Apache on Windows) instead of using IIS? Is there a way to reconfigure WAMP, after FMS13 installs and configures IIS, but then turning off IIS, so that it works nicely with FMS 13?

FileMaker, Inc. released a new updater for FIleMaker® Server 13 that addresses a significant number of issues and has a number of enhancements as well: http://thefmkb.com/13886 Please read the Release Notes carefully before installing the updater. Steven

Just talked to FM tech support, they currently have no guidance on this. Anyone have any comment on if/how this affects the server? I just read this post on the FM company forum: Eliminating the POODLE Vulnerability in FMS 13 on OS X Forum post posted October 21, 2014 by JohnDCCIU, last edited October 21, 2014 47 Views Title: Eliminating the POODLE Vulnerability in FMS 13 on OS X Your post: I did a little playing around to see if I could eliminate the POODLE vulnerability in FMS 13 running on OS X. FMS 13 installs its own version of Apache, it doesn't use the version from Apple as it did in previous versions. Out of the box, FMS 13 is vulnerable to P…

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Hi All, I've mainly used Mac Servers for the majority of my databases, so apologies in advance for my lack of knowledge of Windows IIS. Currently running Windows Server 2008 R2 for one of my clients servers. Previous to upgrading to FMS13 the default IIS web site worked along side Instant Web Publishing. When I upgraded earlier in the year to FMS13 it wouldn't allow both the default web site and web direct to run at the same time (due to port conflict), so it disabled the default web site in IIS and created a FMWebSite site. This was fine at the time as the server is only used for FileMaker, and web direct was working fine. The client has now bought a domain na…

From time to time, I'm asked to restore a backup of a single fmp12 file on my Filemaker Server 13 installation. Up until now, I've been going into FMS Web Control Panel, closing the file, downloading the current file, downloading the latest backup file (every two hours, a backup is done), deleting the current file, and reuploading the backed up file using the "Share" button in Filemaker Pro 13 on my Mac at the office. This procedure isn't very sophisticated, and is really just for occasional use. I've been thinking about how the same result can be achieved by logging onto the FMS Server's Mac command line via SSH, something I can already do from my iPad. This would…

I have a solution hosted on FMS. Latest version. I access the files from a Mac desktop running Lion and a laptop running Yosemite. Using the desktop I've gotten into the habit of using the Data Viewer as a place to experiment and learn, mostly about Execute SQL. Accessed from the desktop machine, these calculations are always available when selecting the Watch tab. On the laptop (Yosemite) machine, around half the calculations are missing. Same server, same file. Suggestions?

I downloaded and installed FMS Server 13 Trial on an iMac running 10.9.5 (Mavericks) . Nothing else is running. I believe the deployment was successful- in fact, it is very straightforward. It's on one machine. There is one problem: Clicking on Activity/Databases, I see the databases that I uploaded, including FMServer_sample. The problem? When I select one of the uploaded files, then click on the icon on the upper right (looks like a folder), I select 'Open', but nothing happens; the file stays closed. This might explain why I can't see any of the server files from client machines running FMA 13 in Yosemite. They do see the server (at 192.168.1.105), but the…

We have recently moved our FM13 server to a remote location, and are experiencing rather long first file startup times. The odd thing is, the slowest file to open is by no means the largest or most complicated file. I have FM13 advanced - but do not know how to use many of the advanced features. Is there a way to "look under the hood" as a file starts up, to see what is slowing things down?

I have been having some installation difficulty with getting my FMS 13 onto our Windows 2012 R2 box. When it installs, it gives me the well known dialog about ports 80 & 443 being required. It says port 443 is in use. When I called Filemaker, they walked me through a netstat -ab | more command. That command showed that 443 was listening but line #2 said: "Can not obtain ownership information" So, now I don't know what part of the 2012 Windows OS to address to clear that port. I also don't know *precisely* how to set up the firewall (or if it needs to be set up) so that may be a problem as well. Any ideas would be of great help! Thanks! …

When I try to create (or edit) a new side server scheduled script with FMS I get the following prompt when entering user full access credentials to select a script from one my hosted files: "No scripts are available for the specified account" If I have recently restarted the server, in spite of the warning I can still click the Next button and continue with the configuration of the scheduled event. After leaving the script running by itself for a little while, the script will abort due to authentication errors and when I try to re-edit the event, this time I won't be allowed to pass the "No scripts are available for the specified account" Very frustrat…

I have my Filemaker Server installed on Maverick and my client on Yosemite. I can't see the DSN I created to access my MySQL database. It is simply empty. I am aware of the minor issues for FM13 on Yosemite but couldn't find anything about not being able to connect to the ODBC/see the ODBC connection. Hope it's clear Thanks

FMServer 13.03 on WIN Server 2008 r2. Applied 13.04.400 update. Immediately after reboot could not open hosted files from client desktop shortcuts. Also tried to open by browsing using remote dialog, can see the host but no file, tried typing server ip and host name gets me error message saying the host could not be found or database is not hosted. Moved database to different server ( WIN Server 1012 r2) with clean FMServer install and only 13.03 update. Same results. Can open files from FMPro installed on server using open remote dialog. Freaky and frustrating. Any suggestions?

I'm working to update an older solution that is hosted on FMS 13. It includes a container field for scanned copies of paper contracts. The container field data is stored externally. Which I close the database on FMS and then download it to my machine for updates, FMS downloads both the FM file and the folder containing the external files. The scans are rapidly adding up, so downloading everything really slows things down. Is there any way for me to download just the FM file? Nothing in my update will ever touch the external files, so it's ok if they're not accessible to me during the updates. Thanks in advance.

I installed the latest fms 13 on my new dedicated server (windows server 2012) From the admin console , I 'm unable to download the database. I close it first and then select the download database menu but nothing happens. No error message, just nothing. In the log section it appears the database has been downloaded. No error message there either. Also is it possible to remove and upload the database from the admin console ? Thanks

We have a MacMini 16 GB / 500 HD + 120 SSD acting as a FM server for 12 local machines, 6 remote and 20 ipads, the fact is that from time to time the server stops responding smoothly as ever an starts dropping connections, ping into another machine decrease the problem but still remains. We suspect first at the beginning of a network problem, but if we ping the FMServer and a printer from a 3rd machine, the packets going to the FMS drops frecuently (20-40% loss) and the packets to the printer are 100% clean. The FMS its a fresh installed 10.9.2 updated to 10.9.5 no server no FileSharing, no remote session, Spotlight disabled, running at 1% acording to TOP and activity m…

Hello - I have FMS 13 installed on a Mountain Lion Server, everything works fine except I received a notification from our vulnerability scanner about openssl - the website banner for my server reads: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:56:13 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.26 OpenSSL/0.9.8y Last-Modified: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:02:37 GMT As you can see it is using openssl 0.9.8y. It was my understanding that the version 3 update included openssl 1.0.1h Any ideas why it is still using 0.9.8y? The latest version in that line is 0.9.8zb which would not trigger an alert, and I am able to update the MAC OS installed version but not the FMS versi…

I have FMS13 on my MacBook Pro 10.9.5. FMs is up to date in version but I can not look now because I can not open it the console. I type this http://localhost:16001/admin-console and it has always opened the admin console before but not after my update and restart and I had closed it before upgrading and now I can not find the exe file to open it again. It says the webpage can not be found. Huh? It is bookmarked. On Mac, where is the icon to double-click and start FMS? It says to double-click the admin console shortcut on desktop but I must have deleted mine. How do I turn FileMaker Server on? What mac extension like exe file do I look for please? and…

I work in education and have been using FM 12 for our databases and with that IWP to share with the people involved. I would love to upgrade to FM sever 13 so that we can use Webdirect. However, the computer we are using it on also host web related things using the ports FM requests to use. (see as follows). Ensure that no existing websites on the master or worker machines use port 80 or 443. These ports are used by FileMaker Server on both machines. If the FileMaker Server installer detects an existing website using these ports, the installer prompts you to let it disable that website. It is not my own personal server and the gentleman who runs our IT depar…

Am just setting up new X-Serve as a dedicated Filemaker Server. It has a flash drive with the OS on it, and a 3x1TB RAID5 set, which I'm just formatting/striping. Now, I have to decide how to use the RAID set. My first thought was to mount it somewhere like /Library/FileMaker Server/ but I'd be interested in any other comments. Also, not sure if Mac OS X mounts volumes in quite the same way a Linux, perhaps a symbolic link is the way to go, something like (as root): mkdir /Volumes/Macintosh RAID/FileMaker Server ln -s /Volumes/Macintosh RAID/FileMaker Server /Library The essence is to keep frequently changing files off the main drive which is an …

Hi Folks, I am a sysadmin but a new user of FMP13 server and at our university we use InCommon SSL certs (they are free to us), which are widely accepted and have worked well for websites, etc. However, at first glance it does not appear to be possible to use an InCommon cert with FMP13 Server -- am I correct about this? It appears Filemaker only supports these certs: http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11413/ Please let me know if I'm correct or incorrect about this...and if there are any workarounds! Thanks, Dan

Hi When I set up FM Server 13 on one machine, and install a SQL Server External Data Source, referencing a SQL Server installation on a second PC, my ESS connections from the client PCs work perfectly. But when I install FMS 13 on the same machine as the SQL Server (the client's preference) and set up an ODBC connection there, my External Data Source is not seen by the client PCs. The SQL Server I'm told has been installed as a virtual server (this stuff not my forte). Is this a known issue? You can't have SQL Server and FM Server and ESS all onthe same machine? Or must I be doing something else wrong? As a test, I did the non-recommeded thing of installin…

when I open remote it shows a local host I did not put there. I think someone is trying to sneak into my network thing but I do not know how to stop it. It looks like this fmnet:/[fd00::126a:ddff:fe51:3f8a]/ I had some trouble originally getting server installed. Did I break something or is someone sneaking in please?

FileMaker Server uses Apache on OS X, and edits the configuration file ( /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf ) and enables apache. This means that if one is running filemaker server, one is (usually) running apache. The new 'shellshock' bug would seem to be a concern in this situation. I'm running a few OS X servers that have FM Server and Apache running. I've decided to stop apache this morning until I understand the risks. Background on shellshock : http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-6271

Has anyone had any luck with connecting the filemaker 13 databases with databases on FileMaker 11 using fmnet in external data sources? I tried to edit the existing references by adding .fp7 to the end of the filename and tried to create a new data source. However, when adding the remote server, it does not display any databases (as they are not compatible) and I unfortunately cannot convert them at this time.

FMS 3.0.4.400 MacBook Pro 10.9.5 I have served files which have never crashed. I do not restart if it improperly closes and logs show no issues. This solution has worked fine for weeks. I have no virus scan – I follow all the proper procedures and I still have this problem which appeared this morning: When I try to modify schema as full access (confirmed in data viewer), nothing happens. I get no message as to why – it jumps indicating it recognizes the 'delete' click but it does not delete the field. If I try to modify a layout, it tells me the file is not modifiable. I have closed the files, stopped server and reopened and even restarted the FMS box and th…

I was a foolish boy to assume that using a local relative path would easily translate when moving a file from a local context to the server. The script now returns error 800. If I hardwire a path location in the script can I save the PDF to the server?

I have a client insisting on hosting my database on an external SSD connected to an iMac via an external USB 2 port. I've tried to tell him that it's a bad idea...that access speeds and latency with USB 2 will seriously hurt server performance! Maybe if I can send him a few other thoughts from other seasoned pros he will listen to me. Am I exaggerating the performance zap or is this a horrible idea?

I have hunted everywhere in FMS admin honestly I have. I have served my files and I have been changing them and now I want to zip a set so I closed the files or should I get the backup? I know I must be careful. There should be a button in FMS admin which when I select a file, it closes it nicely and presents a download dialog. Yes I am backing up also but I have iPad files and I want to keep them together as a set. I do see that I can email a file to myself but is that safe? I thought they should be zipped before emailing files.

I believe pre v13, you could edit the favorite host preference file. I just migrated my mac to a new machine and my favs are gone. In the past I would just replace the current local file from the backup, but it does not seem possible now. I even tried to modify the file with a text editor but that failed as well. Any suggestions, or do I have to manually enter again. file /Users/me/Library/preferences/com.filemaker.client.advanced12.plist

Hello:  Can someone tell me what a half filled circle ( see enclosed screen shot ) under GO/PRO column in the FM 13 Admin Console means?  I've looked through the documentation and can't find it anywhere.  Thanks.  Dom  Â

Hi, not sure this is the correct forum we have a calc field for our Invoice total ... Sum(inv_invitm_InvoiceID::Total Sell Price) + (Amount Imported/1.1) ... which is the sum of all the invoice items records + the value of the invoice total for all the old invoices imported prior to starting with FM Our file is hosted in Brisbane with nightly backups to my office in Sydney So all works fine then one day doing a find on the cacl field only finds those records where the search value = Amount Imported .. it won't find any invoices where the Sum of the invoice items = the search value However, the Find still works correctly on the overnight backup files !! …

Hey all, I just upgraded from filemaker 13.0v1 to 13.0v3 the problem is prior to the update the admin console was working now it is not. the server event viewer keeps giving me an error code of 701(admin server process has terminated abnormally). Java is running. Before the update i was able to telnet into port 16001 now I am unable to. any help would appreciatied.

I want a calculation which tells me the url I think of the server so the file knows where it is being served. I want the server name I think and I went clear through all functions and no luck yet. This request would be for version 13 I am working in but we will not publish until next future version, number unknown.

I am running filemaker server on my Mac just to try it. I now want to stop it but cannot see how to download my database file from the admin console. I can't even find the server in my library on the hard drive

I've got a .xls file(s) that are being imported through the server from a PSOS process. Most of the time, it works great! On occasion, the import process will stay stuck at the Import script step. It doesn't execute it, and it throws no errors. I know it's stuck there because I'm placed some sendmail command pre and post, and I never receive the post message. The virtual user server creates just hangs there and never logs out. It doesn't show as using any system resources through the statisics screen, but other real user notice a slowdown when this happens. I also tried the same thing through a server-side schedule, with the same results. The same file will import …

I was checking to see if I create a script if there is a way that it will still add the attachements when I set the scheduler? I notice when I switch my script to "Server" the line to save to PDF is greyed out.

HI. I seem to have an ongoing problem with Administrator Groups disappearing from my Filemaker Server 13 control panel. I'm using 13.0.4.400 Anyone else had this?

Hi there, I have a bit of a challenging issue. A few days ago all server side scripts stopped working in our file. We have about half a dozen user triggered server side scripts and they all suddenly stopped working. When they are executed the scripts hangs and I have to restart filemaker. Here is what I have tested so far: Created a new table, with 1 field: timestamp created a new server side script that does the following: Goes to the layout Creates a new record set field timestamp with the current timestamp Commits the record the result of running this is that FM13 hangs - no new record created. The Next thing I did was to create …

A couple of questions... I have two tables Customers, and Customer Employees. Customers is the parent table to Customer Employees. On a layout based on Customers there is a portal of Customer Employees on the right hand side, and fields which contain more details about a given Customer Employee on the left hand side of the layout. By clicking on a Customer Employee in the portal, a global field in the Customers table is set to the primary key of the Customer Employee which creates the relationship that displays the details about that Customer Employee. When creating a new Customer Employee record, a set of global fields are passed to the server through the scri…

Hi all I need to compact our database. Is it OK to simply Close it in FMS console, then retrieve the database from C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerDataDatabases, compact it, put it back, and then Open it in the console? Thanks

Hi all, is anybody able to use a different path in FMS 13? I tried to use an external drive to put a container field content, but it's not working. this is the path, but i can't validate it. filemac:/Volumes/Tam Tam Drive Sounds/TTS_Catalogue/ how it works? seems to be too strange for a "new feature server" claimed. regards

We're a university administration group currently running FMS 11 with FMP 11 desktop clients for our office users and a mixture of custom and IWP for people coming in over the campus network. It's time to upgrade to FMP 13 and we'd like to keep the local FMP 13 clients authenticating via the server's (running Windows Server 2012) Users/Groups but authenticate our web users via the campus' Shibboleth service. Has anybody any experience with Shibboleth and FMS 13, and can it be run alongside local Users/Groups authentication? Any information would be really appreciated. Thanks. Colin Hunter

I have a solution that has been working great in testing. Went to move it to the FMS Server (WinServer2012R2) and none of the external data sources are available. Confirmed that the ODBC 32-bit System DSNs are the same on development machine vs. Server but still no love. Anyone have some hints where I went wrong?