FileMaker Server General Discussions
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Hi, This may sound stupid but I've been looking for this for 3 hours now. I'm hosting about 30 different files, but when my client goes go file open remote, it only sees home. Now I'd like to add some files to that "remote" list on Filemaker Server 8.5 on the Mac, but I can't get it to work. Can anyone please guide me in the right direction? Robin
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Hi, I created an online ordering system using FMPro 6 unlimited and FMP server 5.5 with IIS. Somehow, internal users can place orders online, but outside customers cannot. If anyone knows what the problem is, please let me know since I've been working with this for awhile and still can't make it work right. Thank you.
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I'm a physician, and part-time hobbyist-programmer. the institute that i work for asked me to set up a DB to analyze QA data from our clinics in the field. I need to allow access to 3 other people on our network, including myself. I have set up the accounts and privileges (2 with full access, 2 with data entry access), and i opened the file on my computer (running Windows XP) with sharing enabled for the specified users. However, when they select "Open Remote" from the file menu, they do not see my computer listed as a local host. I have checked my settings, and my firewall is set to allow Filemaker pro users to get through. can someone tell me what am i …
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Hello! I use Web Publishing with FMS9, and I have a few issues regarding its integration with Apache. My primary concern is that it insists on including its own server-status config into httpd.conf, which in turn has an AddDefaultCharset directive. This turns on the charset header globally, which interferes with the sites hosted on the same server. Is this absolutely unavoidable? Why is it so important for FMS to have Apache serve pages with an UTF-8 header added? I tried adding an "AddDefaultCharset off" line after the FMS Includes, which solved my problem temporarily, while I could access my databases too. Too bad anytime I update the deployment opti…
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System: Mac OSX Tiger Filemaker Pro: 6 (upgrade from 5.5) Problem: I had installed about 10 filemakers and only one is giving me problems. This one is not willing to open files remotely due to 'can't find host on network'. So i had checked the 'Filemaker Pro > Preferences > Application' under 'Network Protocol' I should be able to select 'TCP/IP' but it's not listed and the only thing that is listed is ''. I had deleted preferences files, reinstalled under different username administrator, root and etc.. all the posibilites that could alter the network preferences on FileMaker Pro. Thank you.
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Hi. Has anyone had any experience getting data in/out between MS Exchange and Filemaker? I need scheduling, resources and such. Possibly email too. I know there are some possibilities using Outlook and plugins, but I would prefer to be able to integrate this at the FM server level directly with the Exchange server. I don't know what is possible with Exchange, ie. ODBC, XML or what... Anyone have any ideas on this? Cheers, Andreas
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The updater is now available on the FMI web site on the downloads page. Steven
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Hello all, I hope there's some one who can help in the next two hours out there I explain better my problem: today we were trying to set up a second instance of filemaker server database, so we installed it in two machines (as we need a backup server and in the first one it seems to be not properly configured - even if service was running -). Filemaker server remains running on three machines at the same time for hours. I've tried later to enter the admin console of the first (and primary) filemaker server. After clicking on the fms adm. icon on my desktop and after splash windows close, I've been not asked to login by the applet and the consolle didn't start as…
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I just downloaded the trail version of Server 9. I uploaded my database and it works fine being hosted. However, unlike the sample file in the databases section of server, my database does not have all the little check-marks for what options are available. There are check-marks for Pro, IWP, and ODBC/JDBC but not XSLT, XML, or PHP. I really want to practice using the PHP site assistant before I invest in the full software. Do I have adjust my database file to enable these items? The sample server file works fine with the PHP site assistant. Any ideas?
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Hi everyone, We have two servers listed as favorites in Open Remote. Both servers have their own licensed copy of FMS9. One server (called Development) is currently housing our files (while being designed) and they reside in Databases. They are being served. The other server (called Production) USED to have files in it which were served. That was unserved and the files removed. But still ... when I open FM9 and select REMOTE, both servers show in my favorites list (all good) but ... if I click that second server 'Production', it still lists those files there! And I can select them. Of course it then says they aren't there but why are they showing at all? …
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Hi, I'm trying to use a JDBC client to connect to FM9Srv. I have a table "test" with a PK "id" (auto-increment). I need, from the JDBC connection, BEFORE insert a record, to know the next usable ID value. If this isn't possibile, there is any way to know it after the INSERT without execute a select? TIA
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I have a Windows 2003 Server SP2 installed with Apache 2.2.6 and PHP 5.2.4 working. How can I configure the Filemaker server web publishing feature to use Apache and PHP5 on my Windows box? The server deployment's enable web publishing does not detect the Apache web server. The error message "Could not get a list of web servers from the specified worker machine" appears. We do not want to IIS as our web server option. Any manual configuration instructions would be appreciated to have FM9SRVADV work with Apache and PHP5 instead of defaulting to the only option, which is IIS. Thanks in advance.
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I have a some clients who have FMS 8 installed, and I do remote administration for them. Now a client has bought FMS 9. I was hoping to have both flavor on my machine to do the administration, but it appears that I must unistall FMS 8 before installing FMS 9. Question: will I still be able to remotely administer my FMS 8 servers? Thanks, mvreade
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Hi everybody. I installed some days ago the FMSadv 9 developper licence. When i'll try to install the web publishing on it, at the screen to choose the webserve, there's nothing. But i have already installed on my machine (Vista) a package (called wamp) that had installed apache 2.24, PHP 5 and mysql 5. I can find the server apache, use php with msql. I probably forget to configure some file. But wich one? I'm new in web publishing. Every help is more than welcome. Thanks for reading my post. Jean-Philippe
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Hi! We have a rather strange problem. We are using XML to insert and edit our Filemaker database. We use commands like: "http://admin:[email protected].*/fmi/xsl/login.xsl?-grammar=fmresultset&-encoding=ISO-8859-1&-db=Johner&-lay=Image_Searchword(W)&Archivenr=557024&Id=281&Searchword_priority=50&-new" But after a while with inserts and edits the commands goes slower and slower and finally the WPE "dies" more or less. Then If I reboot it it workes fine again for a while. Anyone have any idéas about this problem? Regards Joakim
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Is there an option in Filemaker server 8 to host files even if file sharing is turned off? If there is where can I find it?
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Hello- Having some trouble with FileMaker Server 8 Advanced. I wanted to use CWP with FX.php to display some catalog and inventory database, but all my FX.php pages (including the samples) were getting "No action taken" errors. I made some discreet inquiries, and came to conclusion that my FX.php scripts are failing to see/find my databases. As I investigated this issue, I discovered something stranger still. When I go to the web config for the WPE, and click on "Published Databases" under "FileMaker Server," nothing is shown. The menu header for the config interface is there, but there's no list of databases, not column headers. Now you may think that I d…
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Hi! The get( systemIPaddress )is supposed to get a list of all the machines connected, but I get only my computer's IP in our office network. ¿Does anybody else has happened the same, or it is just my case? Thanks in advance for any help.
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We have a 2 machine setup. Our Database server is a windows machine(Server 2003), and our web server is an Xserve. Each machine has 2 network cards. On the web server 1 goes out the the internet where all our requests come from, and the other is a crossover cable to the FM server. The FM server has 1 that goes out to our internal network, and one is the other end of that crossover cable from the web server. the two NICS on the crossover cable are configured to be their own network. This works great and we have had no problems until now. We had to change some IP addresses,and reconfigure our network. thanks to our internet provider and our network ad…
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Hi! I tried to upgrade from 8.02 to 8.04 It worked great but the server stoped responding to ODBC. I have found some issues and solutions here on the forum but none of them worked. I tryed reinstalling etc but nothing worked. (I tryed installing 8.02 and then 8.04 patch) Anyone have any ideas??? Regards Jocke
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Is there a way to automatically add a "Favorite Host" IP address when installing a client in FileMaker 9? I remember back in FileMaker Pro 5/6, there was a text file in the user preferences folder that would store specific hosts that had been added manually. But I couldn't find a similar file for FileMaker 9. Just trying to see if there is a way around having to go to each FileMaker install and add a favorite host IP address by hand. It would be really nice if we could just add the IP address to the "assisted install" file and have FileMaker add it during the install process. Install Info: FileMaker Pro 9 Windows XP SP2 Thanks, Joe Gonzalez …
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Hi, Anyone have experience multihoming FM8 server? I've added another network card to our server to allow vpn access through another network. Is there something I need to do in FM server admin to utilize this card? The error message I get when trying to connect to our database on the additional card is "CGE Master.fp7 could not be opened. Either the host name is not available or the file is not available on that host". Any help greatly appreciated. Jason
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Hi, I have a problem that just came up today - before that everything was running OK. I have a database which I run from FMS9 on OS X 10.4.10 and when I´m opening the database with the FileMaker Client FMS9 I can´t add or change a thing. When I try to open the same database direclty with FMP9 I can type in it and everything works - so I would think that the problem should come from the server and the administration passswords or something. I didn´t changed anything and have my system and an administrator account which should be able to have full possibilities with the database. Are there any settings inside FMS9 that I may have overlooked? Would be very thankful fo…
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When defining the 1st task with the Task Scheduling Assistant I got this: "Error occurred while getting the databases size." This on a Windows Server 2003, with VM Ware. I went on to define more within the scheduler itself, with no problem. Resulting backups seem healthy. FMI tech didn't know what that error meant, but thought if the convert into fp7 format without problems, then they are fine. Any one see this before? Could it just be a VM Ware oddity? [replacement post, btw, I think the other was eaten by the server glitch.]
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Hi, Hope Im in the right forum. I recently completed a 20 file solution in 8.5 for a client running Terminal server (windows server 2000). To cut a long story short the files look like *******. The colours are not rendering correctly, the resolution looks extremely low. Has anyone had problems with this issue, is there a way to upgrade the terminal server to a higher res, any ideas, they look great from the server console, its only when the files are viewed thru terminal.
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I can log in perfectly to the file on my desktop, but as soon as I mount it on the server and make it available with the server admin tool, I get this message, "Your access privileges do not allow you to perform that action." file sharing is turned on. what gives?
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Hello! We have had this configuration for awhile now: - Mac OS X server 1: Runs Filemaker 8.02 Adv Server - Mac OS X server 2: Runs WPE 8.02 This has worked fine for along time now. But suddenly when our load had whent up the WPE is getting deadly slow. Or it seams that its getting slower and slower until it stoppes. Is this a known problem? Is there anything I can do about it? Regards Jocke
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I created a medical database and a case management database. The case management database needs to access information stored on the medical database. I created the relationship between the 2 databases but when we open up the case management database, the following occurs: The feilds with shared info read . If we go to the manage external data sources screen, double click on the medical database and then hit "ok", it tehn says we need to open the medical database remotely. We do this and the shared information is then visible. If someone else in the office opens the case management database, they have to do the same thing but everyone else then gets booted off the medical …
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I have a solution that I will be needing to share it's data with a SQL database on the same server. I've been able to do this on a stand alone copy of FM Pro, but now I will need to do this on the Server. I'm running FM Pro Server and I'm assuming that all I need to do is install the ODBC drivers (DataDirect 5.5) that come with FMS 9.0 to have SQL connect the same as I did on the stand alone. I see that FMS comes with ODBC connection, but I believe thats only for FMS Advanced since it's ghosted out. Whats the purpose of the ODBC in FMS, Do we need to have FMS Advanced in order to connect to another data source (such as SQL?). FMP 9.0 does that as a stand alone, I can't se…
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I am very very [color:green]green at this but: I am using FM server 9, it was working great, users were able to see and modify files remotely, blah blah blah. Then, I needed to open the admin console, but could NOT remember the password. So I uninstalled, then reinstalled FM server 9 to create a new password (my last resort). Now, I can't modify any files remotely and there isn't any fmsadmin group listed to redefine. I can, however modify files on the server--I also have fm 9 client installed there. I'm using os x server too, is the problem in my os x or in my fm 9 server?? Also, the upload assistant says "cannot create folder volumes/...(etc). HELP!
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After working for quite a while on a solution (interface and data seperate), I moved the files into the shared location on my machine to start implementing it via FMS 8 Advanced. After restarting the system, it seems that all my file references are broken. I've tried to move the files back after shutting down, repair, optimize, and nothing seems to help. I've restated the file references a bunch of times, but the interface files don't seem to respond to this. I have a backup, but now I'm nervous.
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Hi, Ever since upgrading to FileMaker Server 9 and Pro 9, performance is very slow on some larger databases. Lowest spec PC here is an Athlon 3400+ with 512MB RAM. Network is 100MB Full Duplex with 2-3 clients at any one time. The databases (7 in total) were upgraded from v5, and read somewhere about old file/ip references - How do I check these? Before the upgrade, the files were hosted on a client pc, as opposed to a dedicated server. Thanks/...
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Hello! We have had some problems with webpublish eninge and we desided to upgrade the publishengine to 8.04 (the Server is still on 8.02 Advanced). All works fine but now it only uses ASCII for XSLT pages. We tryed to change to different charsets in the webpublish adminconsole but nothing worked. What could be the problem? Regards Joakim
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I am running FM Server 9 on a Dual 2.0 Xeon Win2003 R2 server with 4GB of RAM. I have a script that seems to be losing records. It was not doing this when server was 8.04. It looks as though the FM Pro clients are processing the script faster than the server can handle it (even on slower PCs), because by adding a simple 2 second pause or a flush cache to disc to the script corrects the problem. The issue is that now the head of research says he can't trust any of our hundreds of scripts until the flush cache part is added to each script. Has anyone else been having issues with Filemaker Server 9 performance lagging way behind Filemaker Pro?
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As part of our nightly back up routine our company runs several win batch scripts. One of the scripts (stopFM)is set to open the server admin console and take down filemaker services, back up the databases, then bring the server back up. With the new remote admin client the script is asked to authenticate (no authentication was needed before). The machine running the script is a member of the fmsadmin group in our active directory. Is there a way to bypass the authentication? Shouldn't AD take care of that? Any help would be appreciated
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Hello, first post. Question: Is there any way to tell FileMaker Pro 5 which local network connection to use for sharing? Problem description: We're using a copy of File Maker Pro 5 to share a couple of databases. FM5 is run (first) on the server so it will share the file with other computers. Worked fine until we installed a VPN on the server, so the server now has 2 LAN interfaces. It is apparently attaching to the VPN interface and ignoring the physical network interface. If I disable the VPN interface it works. So can I tell it to ignore the VPN interface and use only the "real" one? The VPN is hamachi with 5.x.x.x address. The physical interface has a …
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I need a quick (but thorough) lesson on setting up IWP. I have a small database that will act as a quick fix until I can finish developing and deploy a more robust php/sql solution that will reside on the companies web site hosted externally with 1and1.com. Independant contractors (field reps) need to access a daily tracking database. Currently there are 10 reps all with their own computers, next week there could be more or less. I do not want to and can not provide FMP licenses to for all reps, so the best way to share the database is with IWP? For local reps this is not a problem, they simply come into the office and plugin to the network. I need to know how t…
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This is on a windows 2003 server with VMware, configuring a new server set up. When using the Task Scheduling Assistant, I get this error: "Error occurred while getting the databases sizes". It works anyway, and editing schedules directly behave well and run fine. According to FMI tier 1 support, although he had no information on this error, he surmised that if the backed up files are convertable to FM8+ (as a test of health) then they are probably fine. Any comments?
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Hi, I have been tasked with moving from fm 5.5 to server 8 and client 8.5 The migration appears to run ok. The 5.5 server is windows 2000 and a 800MHz dual machine. The new server is a quad core 1.8Ghz machine running windows server 2003. The mac clients connect and start the files ok approx 40 seconds, but the windows clients take upto 30 mins. Both load equally quick from the old machine (around 40 seconds) I have tried tweaking the server settings, but there appears to be not much to tune and on the client side even less, I have fiddled with the cache etc. The clients calls a menu file, which is small and loads almost instantly on both systems, but if you …
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09/12/07 06:16 PM - Post#266390 We had to reinstall FileMaker 5.5 server this summer. Now the server is only showing the first 50 files. We want the server to show 80 files. Where do we change the settings on the server to show more files on the users screen when they log on to the HOST?
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Hello All, How to I get back to my admin window? It just brings me to this 'server starting page' (that does nothing) or if I type http://:16000 - which also brings me nowhere. I can't see the obvious here. Need help. gsunglao
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I have purchased the upgrade to FMSA 9, but unfortunately I have lost the disks to v8 so I cannot conduct an uninstall of v8 prior to installing v9. (We moved offices and the CD didn't come for the trip.) So, my questions are: 1. Is there a way to uninstall FMSA 8 without the original CD? 2. If not, will an v9 install not work without getting rid of v8? Thanks so much. I really appreciate any help you can offer.
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I have a Student database with Calculation fields that will indicate whether a student in the Youngest in the family at a particular school. The Field is marked either "Y" or "N". When the database is stand alone on my desktop, I can do a search on Youngest and the School and it works. When I put the database on my FP8SA, it doesn't work at all (No Records Found). I have no clue why this would be. The Calculation is based on several fields Birth_Date [Date] Self Relationship "Y" on the table Address+school name == Address+school name Birth_Date_D [GetAsDate(Birth_Date)] Born_Last [Max(Y::Birth_Date_D)] Youngest [iF(GetAsNu…
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I'm just trying to get familiar with FMSA's technologies. I see that the server deplyment assistant won't let me enable the XML component if I won't choose a web server it can detect. I'm wondering if it's possible to enable and use XML without a supported web server. For example, using Apache on Windows. In my particular case, I just want to get familiar with the DB access interfaces FMSA can provide, and I'd like to contact them from simple PHP and/or other scripts run by the command-line interpreter, without using any web server whatsoever. So, actually I want to enable the XML and/or PHP API component without any web server. Is it possible?
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I'm trying to install FM 9 Advanced on the D: partition, since that's where we have our apps installed and have plenty of space, but I can't seem to get passed the "User Name", "Organization", "Licensey Key" screen. I click "Next" and it doesn't do anything. I called FM tech support and they confirmed that FM 9 Advanced is supported only when installed on C: but that I might be able to modify an .ini file to install it on a different partition. I've looked at setup.ini but I can't find where the installation path is specified. Can someone please shed some light? TIA
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Okay, so I've got a solution from heck here at the office and it's running on a paltry Apple G5 XServe Single Proc 2.0 Ghz with 3Gb RAM... Needless to say the application performance is way under par here. I'm rebuilding the IT Infrastructure for the building and as part of that, I'm replacing the primary FMS. I've got to come up with a server which will be reliable, fast, FAST, **FAST**, and stable. Currently looking at a dual-core Xeon with a ton of RAM, Hardware Raid on the HDD subsystem, and dual NIC's for the internal/external subnets. (assuming that I can get that hack working with FMS) Question is: Is this overkill. I know that FMS has a cache limi…
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Unclear on this: I'm setting up Filemaker Server 9 on Windows Server 2003, ONLY for access by filemaker clients over a WAN (ie no web-based access at all). In the server, if I want to use higher security by checking "Secure connections to FileMaker Server", do I need to purchase an SSL certificate? Or is the latter only necessary for web-based connections? Thanks in advance for any help! James Reed Soho Solutions
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I have recently converted to FMServer 9 and wanted to start upgrading my clients likewise. The clients that I have switched to 9 work fine except for one problem. Some of my custom graphics on my layouts in FM9 are missing. As you can see in the image below, it's not all of the custom graphics (the tabs and the small circles in the upper right are still there). If you need a closer view, right-click and select 'View Image' to get the full size. I believe the problem lies somewhere in the FM9 client, rather than the server. I run a completely MacOS network and have FM Server 9 running my database (Mac OSX Server -- 10.4.10) with Mac OSX clients: some with FM…
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Hi All, I have an end user who ordered Windows Vista Business which will have IE7. In our environment all our client installs have FM8.03. Will there be any issues with this version working with Windows Vista or IE7? Thanks in advance!
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created an internet shortcut as fmp7://192.168.1.1/FMPFILE.fp7 In some instances it works and in some it doesn't i've checked the firewall setting etc., and can't seem to figure out why... Ron
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Hello to all, When I open a file remotely fm crashes. Osx version of FM9adv, airport wifi network. Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong? Please help. Thanks, Mark
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I'm sure this has been covered somewhere but I can't find it. How do I access the filemaker server offsite? Do I need a static IP? We want to be able to use a laptop at a location and access the filemaker database server to do entry real-time. There are also others in office working at the same time. I want the outside person at the shows to be able to login and also enter/chaneg data. We are using Filemaker 8. I would greatly appreciate any info on what we need to do to make this happen. I'm sure it's easy and I'm sure the answer is online somewhere but I can't find a straight answer. Thanks!
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I have read a couple of post here about the new admin tool not launching in FMS 9. So far the fixes I have seen include; - Repair disk permissions - Clear all caches with Cocktail - Make sure ports 16000 to 16018 are open - Changing the Mac Open command to 'Java Cache Viewer.app 11.5.0' - Reboot after doing the above All of these have been tried on my install, and I still can't get the admin client to launch. Is there something I missed? Any help would be appreciated. Mac OS X 10.4.10
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Hi, Does FM Server 9/Pro 9 have an Offline Files feature that allows you to open remote databases when disconnected from the network. I have set this up for Windows shares in Vista and not having FM do the same is the only thing stopping me from having a complete offline solution. Thanks/...
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hello all, I've recently installed full filemaker 9 platform in my company local network, which means that that I updated clients and server to filemaker 9. I'm now trying to schedule the backup procedures (please see the attachement to this post), but none of them run properly. In fact, no backup schedule runs. I've created 2 folders and related subfolders on backup partition of my server (dell machine with Windows 2003 server standard edition). back up program should weekly save the copy of databases into the subfolders (at 11 PM in '11' directiry, at 5 PM in '05' directory etc..). Even if the procedure seems to be completed, back up files are not been crea…
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I have tried to perform scheduled scripts on our server that will trigger scripts from other files, but I don't get this to work. The event log says error 100, can't find file. Script is performed with an account and password that exist on both files. Filereference tried are file:filename, fmnet:127.0.0.1/filename, filewin:/D:/path/filename Any clue about this someone?
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I see that FMP Server 9 requires Windows Server 2003. Does this include Small Business Server 2003?
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I would like to query a table (select * from table) with MS Excel over the DataDirect-ODBC-driver from my FMS9Adv. It worked a few days on several Databases, but since today ALL clients get an error when they try to get the query result in Excel. It says "SQL Parse error". Restarting the machines did no effect. We also tried another JDBC query to the same Server and this works currently without any errors. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
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In our current environment we are running 8.5 advanced clients with 8 server advanced. Id really like to move to 9 ASAP to take advantage of the new features, however due to time constraints I wont be able to upgrade our server to 9 for a few months. Is it ok to move the clients to 9 advanced while still running 8 server? any possible got yahs with this set up? (If i remember correctly there were some issues running 8 client with 7 server but i don't remember the specifics) Is this an acceptable practice? I haven't been able to find much information on this. Any help would be appreciated.
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Server 8 has 3 other databases open, and all is well with those. This 4th database will not open. It is located in the same shared folder as the other 3 databases, and has the same permissions. Sharing is turned on in the database (I have tried it both ways). I brought the file over on a flash drive to mitigate permisions issues. I also tried matching permissions with a file that works. When I start up the server, that file shows CLOSED, and when I try to open it, it blinks, stays closed. I can't figure out anything else to do!! What am I missing???
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I've a db with 45 data files (this was originally written in fm3, upgraded to fm5 then migrated to fm7) Two of my files will have their "Network access to file" changed from All Users to No Users and then fall off the network. Closing the file, opening it in FM and resetting it to All Users and then re-opening in Server gets the file back online. I can't figure out why this is happening. We did the migration to 7 weeks ago, and this problem is just showing up. Thanks for any help.
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This morning, I needed to make some configuration changes using FileMaker Server 9's Server Admin Tool. When I tried to open the tool, it went to a screen that showed the tool was checking for updates. It does not get past this screen. It has worked fine previously, and no changes have taken place that would affect the tool. Files are continuing to be hosted, just not able to be managed with the admin tool. Any thoughts? Hardware: Xserver running OSX Server 10.4.10
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When I upgraded from FM8.5 to FM9 the LDAP settings were removed. Is there any way of preserving these settings, incorporating them in the 'assisted install' file or any other way of accomplishing this? I have several hundred upgrades to do and I don't want to have to do this manually.
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I am learning Filemaker Server and am liking it. I would like to schedule a backup off my mac and onto a network share (in case electronic failure of my server). my issue is I can not seem to figure out the backup path to put into Filemaker Server. Current default path is: filemac:/Macintosh HD/Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Backups/ How would I put the path to a network share? I tried to put filemac:/Volumes/USB/ More specifics is I am using the USB Disk Share on my Airport Extreme Base Station so my share shows as USB on my macbook pro. When I look in pathfinder it shows in terminal as /Volumes/USB/ Any idea's would be greatly a…
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I noticed that the FMS Admin Console application was showing the server date and time 90 seconds in the future. Any one seen similar, or account for it?
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We recently upgraded both (we have 2) FileMaker Servers & FileMaker Web Server to the new FileMaker v9 Advanced. Our setup is as follows: 10.0.0.2 - FileMaker Database Server (UK server) 10.0.3.20 - FileMaker Database Server (USA Server) 10.0.0.3 - Web Server / Web Publishing Engine (UK Based Server) When running on FileMaker v8.5 we were able to extract data via php from 10.0.3.20 using a relationship hosted on 10.0.0.2. But since we upgraded to v9 this has not been possible. Data is being published successfully from 10.0.0.2. No coding has changed on the web pages, and all the privileges seem to be the same as in v8.5 but still we canno…
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Hi, I know FM server 8 runs scheduled backups but does it also run scheduled scripts. I have to create records overnight and when it does not I have to do it with ZippScript. Henk
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We have two drives on our FMS machine (Mac OSX). FMS is on the first drive. We want to use the second drive for our back-ups. We have created folders on the second internal drive, but they will not validate. Yes, I have the trailing slash. Why is it now working?
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From my time here at this forum, I've learned that the fastest way to make a FileMaker expert faint is to tell them that you have a database stored on a server and each user is opening it individually. So I won't admit that it happens here in my office. : But IF it were, I'd be repentant and want to change. Our (hypothetical) challenge is that our file server runs Linux. So installing a copy of FileMaker there that other people can open remotely from doesn't appear to be an option. Half of the other computers in the office are laptops, so the files can't be served from there as they go in and out of the office. The others are used very regularly, and I'…
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I've installed FMS9 and accepted all the defaults that the installation procedure requires - including using the FM supplied PHP. When I run the test page I only see the code that is produced in my browser (Safari). I was expecting to see the similar results that you get in IWP and XML test pages. Any help appreciated.
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any help would be great,.. thanks,.. ! Using FMP 9 and FMS 9 over a T1 line moving a max of about 140KB/s I have 3 tables (and or) files - table 1 has 15,000 records with 100 fields (11-MB) - table 2 has 15,000 records with 8 container fields and a key that relate to table 1 (3-GB) - table 3 has 120,000 records with 15 fields that relate to table 1 (28-MB) table 2 holds up to four 6KB thumbnail images and up to four 40 KB images there is a scanning plugin that aquires the images into table two I have done extensive network throughput testing -- and have constructed various designs where, with no records, the total Bytes transfered from c…
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I am trying to collect data using IWP. I will have hundreds of participants and it is not practical to create an account for each participant. Is there a way to create one account "participant" but limit each participant to viewing his/her record only? Please advise! Thank you
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We are currently running FM Server 8 on a Windows 2003 server. Windows 2003 (32bit) has a limit of 2GB for page file size. From what I can tell, FM Server is still 32 bit, so even if I upgraded to a 64bit server, I would still be looking at the 2GB page file limit. Unfortunately, our install of FM server is getting pretty close to maxing out the page file. Is the MacOS version of FM Server also a 32 bit program, or would it be able to fully utilize the MacOS 64 bit capabilities? Are there limits to virtual memory on an XServe vs a Windows 2003 Server? I would appreciate any advice I can get.
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"FileMaker cannot share or be a client of a file because the networking stack could not be initialized." It seems to hapen when a batch script written this way: START C:MyFilesMySolution.fp7 ...is executed. Shouldn't be so that the documents postfix would appeal to relevant application. Here a single client version with server'ish tasks to perfrom in a small peer2peer environment? --sd
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Is anyone serving from FMS8 or 9 on a 10bT network? (I'm not, but a client might.) If successfully, could you describe the specs of the server and clients (speed, essentially)? Thanks.
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Our technical chaps say that Windows XP Pro drops connections if there are more than about 10 concurrent users- how does this affect FileMaker Pro 9 guests of FileMaker Server 9. Would it be better to use Windows Server 2003? We are going to need about 30 users. Should we also disable FileSharing on the server? (some Container fields will hold references to Excel docs on another server on the Network)... best advice gratefully received
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I have FMS 9 on a computer running Windows XP. Whenever I try to configure automatic backups, on the last "Summary" step, I get a pop-up saying "Admin Server Connection Error: An Unknown Error Has Occurred" and when I click OK it exits the FileMaker Server Admin Console. I have tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling the server software, but I still get the same error. Any help would be great!
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Let me start by saying I know absolutely nothing about FileMaker. boohoo I work in the IT dept and I have one user that has FileMaker. This is the first in the 8 years I've worked here that he's had a problem with it. The issue is...he cannot open files that are stored on our server. It is not a "FM server" (we are not using server/client setup), just a windows server. What supposed to happen is that when he opens the project it prompts for a password. IT will not do this. It will open FM, but hangs and never prompts for password. Actually ends up killing the ssytem and I have to power off. However, I copied the files from the server to his hard drive…
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Does anyone know of a review or at least a list of the various companies who offer FMP Server hosting (I know there are some who advertise on this site)? I tried a couple of google combinations, but I didn't find anything. Thanks, dan
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Has anyone had any luck running a Virtual Server such as VMWare? We are evaluating all possibilites and was considering it as a possible route.
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Hi All, I have a client that has Server 8 advanced installed on a windows box (I failed to note whether XP or server version OS), and uses windows administration sharing to get at the drive remotely. This did allow dragging down files to a local client machine, which with no OS sharing turned off, that I am familiar with, would allow. Now windows is not my (preferred) environment. I understand the requirements about system level sharing not being allowed, and have underlined that from the start. The IT person was of the opinion, that admin sharing was different to ordinary system sharing; but they are not FileMaker savvy. Can anyone illuminate me on thi…
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If global field values in a shared file situation are only saved on the host computer, how do I save a global field value when the file is being hosted by FM Server? Thanks.
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Hi, I have searched in forum but i can not found an answer. The databases published on the web is updated every day. Update process is more than half hour. So during the update my visitors can not see right contents. I want to stop web publishing engine before starting to update and stops after update. (Update process is done automaticly by a script) Stopping and starting can be done automatically? And can I forward to "Site is updating" page during the update process? Thanks in advance Regards Osman
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Drop-down calendars work great in the FMP client. But for portal rows in IWP, it only works if the combo box ("include arrow to show/hide list") is not selected. Anyone else run into this issue? How did you address it? Am I stuck with not using the combo box ? TIA!
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Hi, I am currently working on Instant Web Publishing(IWP) using FM7. I first created a layout in a database in a local developement machine and did a IWP and it worked fine. Then I tried uploading it into the server and tried the same. I tried to enable the IWP option of the DB in the server and it gave me a error saying "Filemaker could not share this over the web because instant web publishing could not be started". Please can someone help to solve this and do a IWP on the FM7 Server Advanced. Thanks and regards, Sudharsan
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Today I moved our database files to the new server running FMSA 9, our files were previously on a FMSA 8 system. We have a few scripts in a few places that create records in the database via XML/XSLT/Custom Web Publishing/Whatever and they don't seem to work. Here's an example: http://OLD.IPA.DDR.ESS/fmi/xml/fmresultset.xml?-db=CartSales&-lay=Orders&BillingFirstName=Wes&BillingLastName=Plate&BillingCompany=Duck&BillingAddress1=TEST&BillingAddress2=TEST&BillingCity=TEST&BillingState=TEST&BillingZip=TEST&BillingCountry=TEST&BillingPhone=TEST&BillingEmail=TEST&ShippingFirstName=TEST&ShippingLastName=TEST…
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Does anyone know what Activation Error 103 is, from FMI's activation server? This is what I get when I try to activate a copy of FMPA 9 on a client's server running Terminal Services? FYI I'm using the same license code on my main, local workstation, and I have deactivated the copy that was activated on my laptop. I think this should satisfy FMI's requirements. Anyone know any differently?
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Hello all, Could someone point an example to me where I could learn how to time-control a db file? What I wanted to do is... 1) A user opens up the db, do some editing... 2) Left the DB open for x-number of minutes... -> What I want to accomplish is to have the timer to start counting when there is no activity on the system (ex: mouse movement for example). I was looking at pause/resume script but the best I could do is to assign a value and that's it. It starts ticking regardless whether theres a system activity or not... I wanted to leave a message on the screen informing the user that the db has been disconnected because of lack of activities. …
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Can anyone test this to see Thanks in advance http://121.221.3.87/fmi/iwp
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One thing that really intrigues us about FM9 is the use of PHP. This would be a great help to us immediately. My question is: What kind of compatibility issues are there if we were to update the server to 9, but leave the clients at 8.5?
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Hello, we've finally begun our transition from FileMaker 4 to FM8 with FM8 Server (yes, version 8 - owned for year and never deployed ). It has been decided by the higher ups that the first phase will be converting all existing files to fp7 and continue to use as flat files while the new relational databases are being built. My question is about opener files. What is/are current practice(s) in this regard? Currently, with FM4, the files are hosted on a server, and the first to open the file becomes host. All the files have shortcuts on every client's machine (about 8 clients). I'm trying to make things cleaner and easier for the end-user (many are not too comp…
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I have FileMaker pro 8.5 and get a timeout when I go online to see my test application on the web at another site. I publish and can see it from my browser at http://10.0.0.1:591/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=Task%20Management&-loadframes I have a DSL modem, no internal network, OS X Any suggestions apreciated
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I am looking for more details on the 'Server-side scripts' in FMP 9 Server/Server Advanced. Can they be triggered or only scheduled? I'd like to trigger a script to run on the server from a small FMP file offsite or via the internet. I can run the script remotely, from 8.5 client. But a script that takes 5 minutes to run onsite takes about 45 minutes to run offsite. I'd like to trigger it offsite to run onsite, on the server. Can this be done with FMP 9 Server's 'Server-side scripts'? Can someone clue me in or point me to the documentation? I am currently using Server 8 and am thinking about upgrading to Server 9 or Server 9 Advanced. Th…
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We've just purchased FM Server 9 and I'm really excited about our commitment to FileMaker Pro for future development. My newbie question is: Is it OK to continue development on a database hosted by FM Server while it is "open" on the server and others are using it? Up to this point all development has been on my local copy of a db, and when new functionality was needed I was the only person in the file making updates. Once I was done, I deployed the solution again to our staff with the new functionality. I'm concerned about data corruption or some kind of conflicts. For example: staff member 1 is in layout "Main". Staff member 2 is in layout "Other"…
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Hi friends, I'm a long term FileMaker user, but now I need to use a new feature that I never did before: CWP (php). I'd like to develop a big website to be used by thousands of people. I am aware that FileMaker Server 9 and its php support can handle something like 500 connections at the same time. It's a lot, but what if I need 3.000? Is it scalable? I've notice that I can install the server in multiples machines. Does it do the trick? I mean, if I install it in more MACs will it serve more connections? I've heard that MySql is a strong database server, but the easiness of doing the hard work in FileMaker is fantastic, so I'd like to take advantage o…
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I know what the problem is but I don't know how to fix it. Everything is running just fine except that when I try to configure IIS with FMSA it says it can't find the web server. The reason for this is because when I configured my site in IIS I actually disabled the default site and created a new one. Take a look at this screenshot to see what I mean: http://www.angelleye.com/temp/iis.jpg If I disable the angelleye.com site here and enable the Default Web Site, then the FMSA configuration finds it successfully. The problem is I already have the SSL configured for this current site and don't want to mess with changing all of that. How can I make Fil…
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Helo I hope somebody can help me with this tricky one: I try to find a way so that i can store a file that is in a container field on the host server. Example script: Go to field [select/perform; PDFkart::PDFkart] Set variable [$SavepathOnServer; Value:"filemac:/85.196.85.67/ServerDisk/Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Databases/" & Get ( ActiveFieldContents )] Export Field Contents [PDF::PDFkart; "$SavepathOnServer"] This does not work. I have also tried Set variable [$SavepathOnServer; Value:"file:/" & Get ( ActiveFieldContents )] in hope that it should be stored on the host server, but the file i stored on the client machine in the Filemaker app…
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I've read that new in FMS 9 is "Server-side searches and calculations provide faster access to results" So I need to do anything special to enable searching by the server? We've had some horrendous query times with FileMaker 8.0 clients on our FMSA 8 server and I'm hoping to see these times drop with 9. I just wonder if I have to do something special/different in order to benefit.
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Has anyone tinkered with the feature in FM9 to configure directory services? If so, what are the potential benefits of this feature? I am more than sure Steven will chime in at one point. : pg. 64-66 http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/pdf/fms9_help_en.pdf
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When installing FM WPE on the FMSA 8.04: -Windows 2000 Server Server installs ok, and WPE appears to install ok, but when I go to http://localhost/fmi/conf some strange things happen. 1. I create a username and password - fine 2. I check FMS is on same machine - fine 3. I create a username and password for WPE - fine 4. I go to connect to FM server with ID and passcode (checked and I am entering the correct info). 5. After clicking commit the web browser says "an unexpected error occurred" 6. I go back and try to do this again and I login to window 1 ok, but then when I want to configure the WPE and try to enter my Username and password, which I know…
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