FileMaker Server General Discussions
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We recently upgraded and have a Toshiba SG20 we are looking to sell cheap. It comes with 2 drives, Wireless card and is preloaded with Fm server 5.5(Legit Copy) along with the Web Browser Admin Interface. Was a great box for us. Anyone needing Fm Server 5.5 I would reccomend this box. If interested please leave a post/pm me here or contact me via email. Cheers, Michael
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I need to upload PDF files through a web browser into Filemaker and also download PDF files from Filemaker over the web. (The database will be hosted on a Mac using FM Server Advanced) Object: I want to publish a PDF file in Filemaker that a client can view on the web, then make any corrections they need and upload the amended file back into Filemaker (or a folder or however it will work) Many thanks in advance for your help Peter
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Hello, I'm pretty new to Filemaker Pro Adv. 8.5. I would like to setup a basic network so that I can have about 3-4 clients on this network. I'm having trouble figuring out what exactly I need to do to be able to have the computers on the LAN network, along with having my computer at home be able to access the database here at work. (I'm guessing that would be the WAN network) Thanks I'd really appreciate any help.
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MacG5 running 10.4.8, FMS8A v.4, My files appear in IWP, and I can access them via remote client, Blackbelt, and CWP using FX.php. But.... in the WPAC under published databases, nothing appears. Also, when I use the WPAC to change anything, like shutting off IWP, it tells me I have to restart the web server and the administration console. I have turned everything off and restarted the server, FMS8A via the FMS Amin Console, restarted the WPE, and still get this same set of red messages. Anyone have any ideas.
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Help! I may be panicking needlessly; God, I hope so. I thought a file didn't update its date/timestamp (when being served) until the file was closed. I just looked at our file (through Admin). Both services are running (normal). Database status is normal on all. But the date/timestamp says 45 minutes ago and we have NOT stopped serves or closed the databases! I feel my fingers going weak. Please tell I'm wrong and a served file sometimes updates this date/timestamp even when not closed. Please tell me that. It performed a backup at 4pm. The last User signed off at 5:11. The timestamp is 5:15. L
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We have Filemaker Server 8.0v4 running on a very fast Windows 2003 machine w/ 2gig of ram. I have 2 primary filemaker files being served on this box which are 600mg & 800mg each. Every 3 hours we backup the data using the Filemaker Server backup schedule. When the backup runs the machine bogs down and runs very slow. Even the FM clients run extremely slow in Filemaker. This lasts about 5-6 minutes before normal speed/operation resumes. Is there anything that we can do about this? I have called Filemaker Support and they didn't have any suggestions. They didn't even provide me with a general idea of how long the backup should take given our file sizes. …
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Everyone, I'm quite proficient at Filemaker but I'm new to the world of VPN. What I've got (on a Mac) is FileMaker Server 8, a software-based VPN (VPN Tracker Server) running behind a hardware Firewall (Watchguard). On the Firewall, only IPSec ports are opened. There is NO specific rule for ports 5003 (TCP/UDP) because my assumption is that once I'm connected with the VPN, all the traffic will go through the IPSec tunnel. The result is that from the remote location I can "see" my hosted files (I had to add a "favorite server" for that) BUT, I cannot open them. When trying to open a file, FileMaker asks for my username/password (so it IS actu…
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When closing the laptop or when the laptop goes to sleep Filemaker doesn't find it's connection anymore. It works fine on the desktops but the laptops show the error message: "communication with the host was interrupted and could not be re-established. (-3284)". Can you tell me if using Fm server 8 resolves this problem? Other programs like the organizer calendar don't have this connection problem, when you open your laptop the connection is immediately re-established. Thank you.
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I'm completely new to peer to peer sharing... is there a way to automate the process of opening and hosting the file (or opening as a client) that would make it transparent to the user? Here's what I have in mind: I have only two users on two PCs in a peer to peer network. Assume both PCs are always up and running. I'd like either one of them to be able to run the solution without knowing or caring whether they are hosting or using as client. In other words: it just works. Looked at some script steps but it appears that they only open dialogs that then require user input... and it looks like the user would have to know whether to host it or try to use it…
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Hi Guys! I am purchasing Server 8 this week but am looking to run it on XP Pro SP2. My question is regarding concurrent web connections. What is the max count. I know IIS 5.1 on XP Pro is limited to 10, is this going to affect FM Server 8 and limit that to 10. Thanks.
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Help! I have just installed FMS 5.5 and copied the database that we want to share to the FMP directory. I opened the database directly and set it to multiuser, closed it, and restarted the FMS service (Windows Server 2003). The database opens fine on the first client (FMP 6.0v4) but I get a "# of licenses exceeded" error when I try to open the DB on additional computers. Any idea what I am doing wrong or leaving out? ~Bruce
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I have five FM files on FMS7. One is an opener file so to speak (it is on the server, not on clients) with checkboxes for each of the other four. The opener file sets a global field based on the user's login name. After selecting which of the other four files a user wants to open, s/he clicks "OK" and those files open. The login name is then used in all the other, newly opened files, for entry in certain fields. To ensure that the login name is used in each of the other four databases, I want to circumvent the user from opening these files directly (Open Remote and Open Recent). I realize I could consolidate all the files into one, and there may be a way to have the …
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Hi - I'm trying to implement a filemaker setup which shares data between two offices connected via a WAN VPN. In initial testing, it's become obvious that we need to upgrade the bandwidth of one of the offices. Currently, one office has a 768/768 connection, while the other is 384/384. However, I haven't been able to find any specs on what is actually required to do this. I have seen posts that show that other people have been able to successfully share a database over a WAN, but haven't found any details. SO, my question is: 1) What is the minimum amount of upload and download bandwidth needed to share a Filemaker database (using the FM client, not the web client) …
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Hello: Haven't done this in awhile, but when i try to host a database (Pro7) on Server 8 advanced, I cannot change the status to Normal in server Admin. Right now, the file status is closed...i right click to open and it goes right back to closed....I know i am forgetting something simple. any ideas? thanks! rICK
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I've FM7 and works fine when open/host it on the server and the 2nd user can open it via server/client network, (not peer to peer). It then doesn't work any more after I reformat and reinstall OS (2K and XP) on both computers. It then alsway only allowed one user at a time. Is there anybody know why it works at first time and then didn't work on sharing after reinstall OS ? :P
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Hi, I have a client that just installed a Win 2003 server. They are running FMS 5.0 and now cannot see the files listed in the host dialog box. They are using the Win Active Directory Service but FMS 5.0 has no configuration for this like the FMS 5.5 does. Is there any work around or information you can provide. PLEASE HELP!
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I want to aggregate selected content from a large number of web sites that are maintained by a variety of groups in my organization, for the purpose of producing a portal or master catalog. One possible approach is to supply appropriate XML tags to be inserted into individual sites, then crawl the sites to pull the content into FileMaker Server. Someone has suggested to me that the FileMaker Web Viewer functionality might be part of the solution, but I did not get clarity on precisely how that would work. I would be interested in hearing about alternative approaches. Thanks in advance.
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I haven't found a way to open a database residing on a Windows XP 2003 server (FM Server is not installed on any of the computers) from client computers (Windows XP, FM 8.5 Pro/5 users) without additional user input. There is only one destination and only one database on the machine. Is there a way to automate this? Thanks.
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Can't seem to find clear answers at FM website... and I'm completely new to this situation. I've got a solution that is currently a one user at a time runtime. Alas, new customer wants two user ability on two peer to peer connected PCs. I've figured out already that the runtime can't do that. So... Is it possible to have Pro on one PC and runtime on the other? If not (which is my guess), I need two 8.5 licenses... do I have to actually buy two boxed copies or can I just buy licenses.. same price? If I bought and installed Server, would users be able to use runtimes or just have to run two copies of Pro on the two machines? One last one: if …
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Something happened to the computer we're running FileMaker Server Advanced on and now I can't get the web part of it to work. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing the web publishing software, but I can't even get into the administration console at http://localhost/fmi/config - this produces an internal server error from Apache (error 500 - see for yourself at http://medlem.venstre.no ). The log (web_server_module_log.txt) says [Wed Feb 21 18:06:33 2007] [jk_ajp_common.c (1198)] Error connecting to tomcat. Tomcat is probably not started or is listenning on the wrong port. Failed errno = 61 The Tomcat server.log says 2007-02-21 15:22:20,828 WARN [o…
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I am new to FMS8A (switching from FMU5 set up). I've installed FMS8A. I can access files from a remote client if I type the address in "fmnet:/...." but the remote server (which is even on my subnet here at work) does not appear. Also, my desktop copy of filemaker server admin can't see the FMS8A machine or respond to the LDAP address. Any ideas?
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I've move a series of files to FM Server 8 Advanced but can no longer export from one to the other. I can import and see the option to define a remote file to import from, but not to export. Not always the brightest bulb in the chandelier and would appreciate guidance.
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A weird problem cropped up: When users log onto my Mac OS server, they get a "no access" message, but when I log in from the same client machines (happen to be Windows machines) using my administrator password, I can log in. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jason
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Can't seem to get this working. In the server (8.0v4) auto update folder I have added zippscript which I know isn't on any of the clients. Also on the client tab on the server console I have the auto update selected. On the client machine I tested using 8.5v1 Advanced I connected to one of the databases hosted (with Auto update plugin ticked) and was hoping for it to look on the server and see that there was a new plug-in and download it but nothing? Is there something else I need to do? Some help would be most excellent! Thanks
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I am working with a small non-profit. We usually have 2 concurrent users on a development/fundraising db, rarely up to 4 concurrent users. We own 7 licenses, but recently the library db has moved to the web view method and that seems to satisfy that group. That db was used primarily in a read only mode, so the web viewer is ideal for that. Lately we have added a bunch of tables to the more intensively used database and more and more I seet the coffee cup or get weird results, like being moved to a layout I was not using. I am wondering if this meeans time to try to get FMP Server? Is there something I should read on this? This is an all windows environmen…
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Hi, we have a Windows Server 2003 Standard and I have installed FileMaker Server 8v4. I have put a file in the databases folder on the server, started the service and have made sure that the proper ports are open on our router...although this should not matter since our workstations are on the same subnet. But when I try to open the file from our workstation, I can't see the file (clicking on remote, and typing in the ip does not show anything) Yet if I open the file as shared on one of our workstations, I can see it being shared on that machine. The windows server also has FileMaker Server 5.5 installed and working on it. When I stop the FileMaker Serv…
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Is there any reason why a runtime solution could not be stored on a PC in a peer to peer network and used on various PCs in the network but never simultaneously? It looks like I have some folks who want to use it that way, but I want to make sure there are no showstoppers before I move in that direction.
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Hi Everyone : Good News for Windows users that want to use FileMaker Server Advanced, Apache and Windows. While developing our new product "BlackBelt" http://fmwebschool.com/frm/index.php?topic=836.0 (allows you to run CDML on FileMaker 7-8.5) we needed to test in multiple server environments. We discovered by simply adding a line of code to the Apache httpd file and a couple lines of code to a couple other files we were able to run FMSA on Windows. Up until now, only IIS was the supported server to run the FileMaker Server Advanced Web Publishing Engine. However, Apache is a very popular web server for both Windows and Mac platforms and includes a lot o…
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Hi, I wondered how many open databases you can have running on any one server? Or does it just serve one database? Cheers, Dan :
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Hi, I have been approached to build a database for a small library operation, that journals can be borrowed from etc. The client has asked for it to be accessible from the web (outside our intranet), what Filemaker software do I need to get to do this - I was thinking Filemaker 8.5 Advanced to do the development in, and then Advanced Server to roll it out on... do I need a special computer to run it off - or can it run on a web server? Cheers, Dan :(
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Hi, Im getting a 500 Server error when I try to view the fmi/config and fmi/iwp pages. Is there a reason to this? I am using Fm Server 8 on a G5 iMac using the built in Apache with PHP on. I had it working a few months ago but the server had a 'fit' and it had to be reinstalled and since then I cant get it working again. A quick reply would be helpful as my time is limited. Thanks.
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Folks, I'm tasked with migrating data from FM Server 8 to SQL Server 2005. I was trying to use the ODBC driver for FM Server, and the SQL Server 2005 Data Import functionality. I keep having odd and inexplicable OLE and COM errors when trying to move the data (less than 100'000 rows - really not a huge amount). Any ideas? Is there another way to do this efficiently (on about 25 tables or so)? What can I check or tweak to make the import work? I have the same problems when trying to migrate the FM data to MS Access 2003, too. Any help would be highly appreciated !
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Due to questionable performance of our server I want to update our Server 7v2 to 7v4. Clients are running FM pro 7v2 and unfortunately I can't update them to 7v3 (not a license issue, a technical one). The readme file on Server 7v4 says it only supports Pro v3. If the 7v2 clients are only be hosted and not changing the database why wouldn't server v4 host them? Ron
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I have an FMP server here in San Francisco and want to host the same database on a server in Tokyo for speed and accessibility issues. Is it possible to use a product like EMC Replistor to keep the files current on both servers and have the SF users access the SF server and the Japanese users to access the Tokyo server? Would anyone have a suggestion as to how this would be accomplished. Does anyone know of a situation like this that exists? HELP!!! Thanks, Kenny
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I'm probably missing something obvious here... FMS 8.0 on Win won't seem to follow shortcuts to open db's. The help file and admin guide says I can put shortcuts to databases in the default Data/Databases folder, and it will open those files. It doesn't. No errors in the log, so it appears to be not even attempting to open them. If I put the same files in that same default folder (the files themselves rather than shortcuts) they open fine. Same thing if I add their current location as the alternate default folder. But I'd rather use the shortcut method if I could get it to work. Thanks for any help...
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Okay - I have gotten down to the root of my problem. Can someone tell me if/how I can fix it, please? The problem of the unexpected end of file error seems to be due to a Java incompatibility. I found Win boxes on which identical versions of IE are running. The one using the java plugin 1.5.0_06 works; the one using 1.5.0_09 doesn't. Is there any way to update my servers to gain compatibility with the newer plug-in. I know nothing about how java works.
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I am new to FMP. I have been working with a client that has FMP 5.5. The files are being hosted on a Mac and the clients are Windows XP. The previous tech did all the installs. I am learning as I go. I have scheduled daily backups of all database and that is working great. My questions is how do I restore a database from backup? I have looked through all the help files and searched online but only could find information about the recovery of a corupt database. If anybody can provide assistance I would greatly apperciate it. Customer needs to have a database restored due to accidentally deleting records. Thanks
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Hello, I've installed the WPE on the same machine than the FMServer (8.04 - Intel MacPro); we mainly use CWP. This machine is "queried" by our web server. Recently I realized that IWP could be usefull. I 've set up another web server. The issue I have is that each time I login to the IWP; the WPE gives me the following message: "The specified FileMaker Server is not licensed for additional Publishing Engine connections. Check the FileMaker Server license or click here to specify an alternate server." Can anybody help? Many thanks, Guy
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I am running 5.5 unltd on OS 9.2. I have a Webstar 4.5 (apache) front door that connects to a separate filemaker box via the web connector. For some reason calls to filemaker from browsers have started to produce an end-of-file error. It is intermittent, and possibly fixed by restarting the browser that is being used to access filemaker. May occur more with Firefox. I haven't done anything differently to/with the app or the databases, except that I increased the memory allocated to FM5.5u. Any thoughts?
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One of my files uses scripts to create & delete user accounts. This works fine in general. However, a few months ago, I tried to use this feature while connected to a flakey wireless connection. My connection dropped in the midst of processing, and I was left with a "ghost account" -- the account had no name or password, and could not be edited, deleted, or disabled. The file worked fine, in spite of this. HOWEVER -- it turns out the file was hopelessly corrupted. The automated backups were corrupted, and in fact, once I closed the file in FM Server, it would never open again. (See http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?fid/46/tid/184609 for a discussi…
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Hi! I lost my ODBC-connection. Very confusing. The ODBC-client driver SequeLink says error 2306 "TCP/IP Error, connection refused" (on localhost, port 2399). Found a suggestion in the DataDirect-helpfiles to run netstat -a to see if the server is listening on port 2399, its not. Is it the xDBC plugin that has stopped to work? ODBC is allowed in FMSA admin. Everything else works fine, including WPE. ODBC has been running fine on our Win2000Server for months until last friday when we had to take the PDC (Win2003SBS) offline a short while to make more space on the system partition (for that reason we moved the mailserver-files to another partition). Cannot see…
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Apple released a slew of updates yesterday for 10.4.8 -- including a Daylight Savings Time update which I could see being useful, and a Java update which one worries could affect IWP. Anyone tried these and care to report back? thx!
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Hi, I am new to both MACs and FileMaker (although I am familiar with databases). I would like to automate the opening of FileMaker (Pro 8 Vn 1 - not a Sever version) and two databases on a MAC server (OS Tiger) so that they are available via IWP. Obviously I can open the files manually from the server using a suitable account and password and they will then be visible via the web (IWP). However, I would like this to be done automatically - I assume via an automated process on the MAC server. I appreciate that this may be more of a MAC OS related question. So my question is can FilaMaker Pro be loaded and the databases opened automtically - presumably by runni…
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I am running FM7 Server under Windows 2000 Server. This configuration has been working happily for well over 12 months. In the last few days the server has been closing one of the files automatically (overnight). When I open again in the FileMaker Console it works fine. The users have no issue during the day but every morning I have to manually open this particular file?? I have a scheduled backup which runs each morning at 1am and this has been operating since installation. I checked the settings but can't see anything about opening/closing files. I am hosting 4 files and this is only happening to on of them. Can anyone help out? Thanks in advanc…
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Our FileMaker Server (5.5v1, on a Maac G4/500 using OS 9.0.3) is not seeing our FileMaker files/databases. The files themselves seem fine. They open up normally with FileMaker Pro, with the exception of one. When I open FM Server, the FM Server window shows no list of our Files, which it usually does, and it indicates 0 Files (which is strange), and 0 Guests (none are logged on to it, however). It's blank. Moreover, the FM Server window and menu bar are frozen. That is, I can't select any of the tabs in the window (i.e., Folders, Files, and Guests). Nor can I go to the FM menu bar and open or close our FM files, to mount them on the FM Server, which of course we can norm…
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If FMSA is the only thing we are using our server for, is there any need to buy the unlimited Apple OSX Server license, or will the 10-client version do the trick? We are authenticating against Open Directory on the same box, and have more than 10 users in OD. However, there are only 3 local accounts on the Apple server. Thanks for any info.
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What am I missing? I have a file that I have the Network Sharing On for All Users. IWP on for all users. The file has 59 tables. When I go into my FMSA and try to open it, it won't open. I do have other files currently open that aren't related to the file and haven't exceeded the number of files allowed open at once. Any help would be appreciated. This should be simple. Thanks
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After running the fmsweb_8v4_osx_updater, I tried to verify the results through the admin console overview page. There it said "The Publishing Engine is not responding. If the Publishing Engine has not yet been configured, click here to continue." So I did, and then it asked for the WPE Admin User name and password. This I had recorded in my copy of the manual, but upon entering these, the response was "The Publishing Engine user name or password is not valid". (Meanwhile, the server happily continues to publish the databases.) Is it possible to retrieve what the system thinks the WPE admin username/password is, or re-establish the original entry?
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I have created a multiple database program that requires a user name and password. I then created an additional database for human resources, that requires the user enter their password for this data base. The problem is with this second layer of security, I can access the file and go into layout mode with the "Full Access" password but cannot change anything I get he message "action cannot be performed because file is not modifiable" Any suggestions?
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Hi, Here is something I have been fighting all day at work. I had a db on the FM Server 8, I made a copy and took it home to make some changes (just some layout changes and one custom function which I have done before)…I took the file back and placed it on the server but it would not open. The server would automatically close the file, when I selected open all DB’s. I messed around with it most of the day to no avail, then I just did a clone and placed it on the server and it opened it right up for use. (of course when I say open up, I mean open and available for users to access over our network) Anyone ever seen anything like this before? A…
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This is embarrassing, but somehow the password that we had recorded as the Admin Server Password is not working. We are not able to log onto the Admin Server anymore. Is there anyway around this problem? Believe it or not we keep our passwords in a filemake database, but it appears somebody didn't update the database.
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I have one rather large and complex company database. From this one db, I intend on hosting 2 secured sites (meaning user name and password protected using Filemaker's internal security and CWP) and also augmenting another portion of the website with non-sensitive, non protected data. Obviously, the non-sensitive stuff need not have the user enter a user name and password. Those web visitors should be completely free to view the information represented on those pages unencumbered. So to this effect, I have created all the user names and passwords for the 2 "secured" sites and I am left only to set privileges for the non secure site. But when I turn on "Gues…
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Has anyone heard if an update will be needed to accomodiate the changes to Daylight Savings Time that are coming next month? I know MS has updates coming for XP and Server 20003, but I was woundering if FM Server 8 Advanced needs an update also. Thanks, Scott
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Hi, I have never done a script for a server. The thing that I know is that the script needs to be copied in DataScripts folder... I would like to send a message to all the user and 5 minutes after close all the files. How can I do that? Thank you
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Hi all Yesterday, during a routine scheduled backup, my filemaker server 5.5 decided to crash - see attached pics. We have a backup schedule that writes backups every hour, and this is rotated between 3 different locations so there will always be 3 backups of the work done in the last 3 hours. This has been working fine until now - for years. Looking through the event logs, I saw that the crash occurred while the server was trying to backup the largest fp5 file which is 270MB in size. Any ideas about why this could have happened ? My sysadmin colleagues assure me that the hardware and network setup are not at fault and are all good quality, although…
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Hi, We have FM Server 8 running on Win2003, Dual Xeon 3GHz, 4GB DDR2, 3x73 SCSI RAID 5. We have about 20 clients each sharing 2 files thus the server is currently serving 40 files over WAN on a dedicated 100Mbit/s pipe. Performance optimization in this scenario is critical. Average latency from a home network (cable/dsl) in NY to our server in TX is about 60ms. Most clients are in NY. What would be the best optimal performance setting for the server? Enable or Disable SSL? Amount of cache? and the cache flush distribution? What should be the minimal latency and bandwidth? Certain customers seem to have performance issues even though they are on the high bandwidt…
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Now this is a really big problem, I am unable to open a database that crashed a few days ago after a power failure. I have tried to restore the batabase for tape up to a week prior to the crash. here is the message i'm receiveing __________________________ The access privlidges in the file have been damaged or possible tampered with. Please contact Filemker Technical Support if the Problem can not be resolved. __________________________ Any advice would be appreciated very much Thank you all in advance foryou help pryjda
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I have a customer that is using a single user version of FMP 8 on a network. When more than one user tries to access the same file he gets the error "...is currently in use and could not be opened. If the file is shared, you can use the Open Remote command to open the file on the network. Should he get FMP network version. Thanks, Dout T.
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When trying to launch a particular database on 8 server. I open the database and it goes into "checking" then immediatly back to "closed". Now if I go into the file permissions and change them to read only it opens without problem. This would be fine except the database isnt modifiable of course. Im hoping someone has ran into this problem before and can provide some insight?
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I have a windows 2003 Enterprise Server running FM server 5.5 successfully. We are trying to set up our new FM8 files and have a second server in the domain also running 2003 Enterprise Server with FM server 8. Server #1 with FM 5.5 - works perfectly Server #2 with FM 8 - services are started, and databases are sort of accessible in that they can be seen and opened - BUT - upon opening the served files an error comes up [pardon the paraphrasing]: Unable to host filemaker file as the filemaker service is aleady in use. The file functions except the annoying error message AND all container fields "loose" their contents - like all logos were not mapped. FYI all imag…
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We have had this happening to our server for a while, but how it happens to the servers at one of our other divisions. when I go into the admin console, either locally or remote, and click through the tabs, I see strange results. (see the attached PDF) On the first image, it show ODBC and JDBC connections set to 0. This should be 50. Web Publishing Connections should be 250, I believe. Under the Minimum idle time allowed... I don't know off the top of my head what this should be, but the time that is in there is the system time when I opened the properties dialog box. The second image is pretty self explanatory. I get the error dialog when I try to…
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HOw do I remove FMP 5 Server from a PC running Windows? I recently upgraded to FMP 8 running a 12 file dbase and for each file an error message says I cant share files as someone else on the computer already is. I thought I'd remove the FMP 5 server - someone tried to do it for me but now I have 6 compnents left which I cant delete. Help!
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Hi everyone, I'm real green with instant web publishing. I'm using FileMaker Pro 8 I can get it to work great on another Mac Computer (Safari - web brower) within my own home. However, how can I get my mother-in-law who lives hundreds of miles away to help me with data entry? I have a Static IP Address from BellSouth (my internet provider) - Do I need this Static IP Address? When I switch my FM database Instant Web Publishing to "On", the URL is just very short (example: http://11.1.1.1/). The short URL works great within my own home, but not outside my local network. I'm not sure if this means anything, but - when I type my Static IP Address…
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A clients' databases have full access in FMP, but when they are hosted on Server 8 Adv the same user does not have access to ScriptMaker, Accts & Privileges, and other admin tasks. This is the first large set of db's I have hosted with any FM8 app/svr. I have deleted the user created by the upgrade process from FM6, and created a new user from scratch. Everything in the Svr Admin looks correct. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
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Hello all, I am running FMS 5.5 on Mac OS 10.2. When I go to start the server, I get an error message that reads "Unable to Start Server. Another instance of FileMaker Server is already running. Requested command has not been executed." I guess the best thing to do would be to restore from a backup; however, I was wondering if anybody had any better ideas. Could this error stem from a corrupted file? Thanks in advance for any advice/help. JPM
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I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this topic in, feel free to move it. We recently moved our filemaker server onto another server but left up the old one, a user wasn't aware of the fact and entered a massive amount of data into the database. Is there an application that can compare the two databases list the changes and update the current database file? I googled it and all that came up was genie update which apparently is dead. Thanks ahead of time :
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I have never worked with FM server before, and am trying to move a file that was previously used locally on my computer. I want to have it on the server so it can be accessed by more than one person at a time. I moved the file to the FM 8 Server, and am able to access the file across the network, but I am unable to modify it. When I try to do any modification, I get an error that says "This action cannot be performed because this file is not modifiable." Before moving the file to the server, I created an admin login with full access, and a user login with write only access. This was done on the local file. I get the same error message with either login when …
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I am unable to startup FileMaker Server 5.5 ... I get the following error: The IP address is unique (dhcp)... Mac Mini 10.4.8 ( i have the same config deployed elsewhere) Any other ideas? Many thanks Stuart
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Hey guys, The tech support guy at Filemaker said to post in this forum cause you guys are the guru's and they don't support server 5 and filemaker pro 5 anymore. I hope you can help me. I have a client that has been running filemaker server and filemaker pro 5 for the last 6 years or so. They have a custom built database that has 18 fp5 files associated with. This company has moved locations 2 times this year, and this is where the problems start. The fm server 5 runs on a windows 2003 server with sp1. The clients run on win xp pro sp2. When they moved the first time, they started everything back up and could not find the database. I was not involved with the move …
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I have built a nice server based time clock solution. The only problem is that someone figured out that by changing the time on their computer, they can clock in at any time they want to. Short of locking the System Prefs on everyones computers, or firing someone for forging their timecards, is there a way to fix this? Is there a way I could use the time on a remote computer for my timestamps? I have a computer that I can dedicate to the cause. TIA, .sly
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I just inherited a Filemaker server version 3.0v4 on Mac OS9 with client Filemaker Pro 4.1 on Windows 2000. I don't know what the administrator's password is. Is there a way to find out the password? Also, I am new to Filemaker, is there resources on these old versions that I can learn, since resources for old versions are hard to find.
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Simple as it may seem, I cannot find out which serial code was used for installing the 5.5 server we have in our office. I've tried Help --> About but no luck. Anyone know how I can do this ? Thank you ! Daniel
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We have a client runing Filemaker Server on Windows and there web sites are deployed on Apache Servers running on Unix. They would like to publish filemaker databases on their web server but are not interested in using IIS for security reasons, but might consider Apache on OS X. Can WPE be installed on Windows and the Web Server Module and Admin Console on Apache on OS X. is there some other solution that might work in this situation? Or can I present info that would alleviate their security concerns on IIS? Any advice appreciated. Werner
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Hi, I'm having a problem with the company database. We are using FM Server 8 and some FMP8, FMP8.5 and FMP8A. All of them have their own license. Now we cannot work anybody!! As soon as we open the main file, the server says that the maximum number of licensed users have been reach blablabla... I tested with only my license and the same message appears. It seems that FMServer is too dumb to figure out that I'm connecting with the same computer. Does someone has a solution? Thanx
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I'm converting a sizeable FM6 system to FM8 and am attempting to get best performance with respect to file references. At the moment I am making all file references the same format as follows: fmnet:/12.34.56.78/filename fmnet:/*/filename file:/filename This is as optimised as I can think for a server which is at 12.34.56.78. The "*" option is superfluous, however it gives me the opportunity to switch ip addresses on the server without too much impact in a live system. Originally I just had the "file" method, but there is a performance increase when you target the server using "fmnet" Any one think of anything better?
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What is the best system configuration for running FMP Server 8 on a local network, with only internal workstations accessing. Its going to grow into a pretty extensive database, with over 20 tables with about 25,000 records in each. I am currenly using XP Pro, with 1 gig of ram. Does hard drive speed have anything to do with it? Any ideas....
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I have created a hire tracking and quotation solution using FMpro 8/8.5 which has seperate data and interface files. The interface files are stored locally and on launch open the data file by first looking up a local IP address and if that fails, looking up our external IP address (port 5003 open). Only needing a few clients, we opted for a 5 license pack of FMpro. The host is a Powermac G4, 867MHz with 1Gb RAM running 10.4.7 and the other clients are 2x MacBook Pro, 1x Quad G5 and 1x Mac Mini (all running 10.4.7). Can anyone suggest how the system might be optimised? Having added calculations into the stock table of the data file (to evaluate available stock fo…
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I am a novice user on FM, but I have been given the job of setting up/converting an existing FM6 database to a multiuser(Peer to Peer)DB. All the info I have resd says this can be done[color:red] BUT none of them give any steps to follow to accomplish this? Can anyone help! Point me in the right direction? [color:green]PS. Only the Host needs full Access, all others are read only.
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Hi, I have a client that is getting ready to upgrade their existing FM (7) solution and they are asking for some advice. They design/print stickers. So, there are graphics files involved here. At the moment, I have them talked into having a stand alone machine to run Server 8.0v4 (with Mac OSX Server as operating system). We are trying now to decide about the best performance options for storing (or holding references) to the graphics. I essentially outlined two options for them: 1 - Hold the graphics (max 72 dpi) in the FM database container fields. But they'd have to save them as well on another drive where the art guy would access them and edit them as necess…
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Hi this is the first datbase I have developed which is based around project management and billing. I have a query regarding synchronising records. The database will be set up on the server, which will communicate with office based computers as well as laptops. scenerio: If a laptop is used in an outside meeting (no links to the server) and the person has made changes to the records, on return and logging in with the server, is filemaker automatically updated? However does it override anything that may have been added while that person was out of the office, or will/ could it validate changes? or does this sort of set up require scripts, plug ins etc. Please help as I…
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Hi, I am having some problems using the FieldNames ( fileName ; layoutName ) on FM 8 Advanced. When I host my database using the following calculation: [color:red]FieldNames (Get ( FileName ) ; Get ( LayoutName ) ) it returns all the field names on the current layout, as expected. When I then host this same file on FM Server that same calculation returns ?. The only possible difference I can see is the window name when I host the database is [color:red]Filemaker Pro Advanced - [myDatabase] but when hosted on FM Server displays as [color:red]Filemaker Pro Advanced - [myDatabase (FM Database Server)] I have tried concatanating the (FM Dat…
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Just wondering as I have never put anything into web publishing. Can filemaer host web pages for a website that can be viewed by a browser only? Would the user feel that they are looking at filemaker? Is there anything I can look at to see how it would work look?
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We just upgraded our FM server from version 7 to 8.0v4. Everything seemed to go successfully until it came time to open files. I have 89 files being hosted. 85 of those files open fine. However, I have four that won't open. When I look at the FM Server logs it shows errors for these files stating that they could not be opened because they may be damaged. I have run each file through FM 8 Recover. They still will not open in FM Server 8. They open up fine directly through FM Pro 8 and 8.5. I would appreciate any assistance, especially since one of these is our main database file.
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I would think that this was asked a million times already, but I can't find a good response. Our university has a dependency on Apache 2.2 (apache2 for the searchbots) for the purposes of web-based authentication. We are using FM Server 8 Advanced and can't seem to get the mod_jk_fm.so to load. Apache 2 says it's "garbled" and we think that it might be only good to work with Apache 1.3. Which would stink. The httpd.conf file syntax is fine otherwise, except when that module is called. Calling FM, they gave me the standard line, "It's only supported on Apache 1.3" but... that can't be, right? Has anyone any resources for deploying Apache 2.2 with …
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I have a situation: FMP Server 5.5 is hosting 49 databases but for some reason after stopping and starting the server one database is not listed on the available databases anymore. A little background: Earlier I had a corupt database and had to restore from backup. During this time of trying to figure out what was wrong the FMP Server had to be stopped unexpectedly twice. The database that had to be restored is not the same as the one that is not listed. I have already stopped FMP server and rebooted the computer and restarted FMP but still the database is not listed. I am able to open that database as a standalone connection. Any ideas?
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I have a Win 2003 box running FM Server 5 with about 20 macs as clients. This setup works fine about 90% of the time. Occasionally, however, the client just hangs when I click on "hosts". Sometimes I can switch to the classic version of FM 5.5 on the clients and they can connect fine, sometimes that doesn't work either. This has never been a problem with the PCs we have as clients, either. Sometimes just one computer has problems connecting, other times none of them can connect until someone else logs off. Some possible problems I have already crossed off the list: restarted the server (had the problem again the next day) changed the switch that the server was co…
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General question about FMP and FMP Server. I have a general DB file on temp server 1 (FMP server running). Move this file to another folder on a permanent server because the temp was decomissioned. During this movement, the file seemed to lock me out as the admin. Message: Can't modify pops up. How can I get back into file options to change/address this problem? I do not have FMP server training so I don't know the concepts behind the potential problem (reason for asking). I just want my group to be able to use this file and understand why the file changes it's options by moving between folders and servers?
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We would like to use FM Server 8 Advanced for its web publishing capabilities. However, our company runs novell networking instead of Windows AD. I couldn't find anything on FM's website and the FM pre-sales tech folks suggested I come here and post since they had no answer. Any idea if novell can coexist with Novell? TIA!
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I'm looking for a way to have a FileMaker Server 8 Advanced host act as a mail server, with mail triggered on both a schedule and certain trigger events in the hosted database (ie: a specific button on a layout is clicked). Users will access the hosted databased via both FileMaker Pro clients and via a web interface. Anyone have any suggestions?
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I need to change to default filepath that holds databases on filemaker server. The wonderfull IT department has chosen to make E:/ drive the storage area so I need to hold my databases in E: drive. How can I change this?? As you may see on the attachment.. I have added an additional path but I can't seem to open the databases that I have put in the E: drive location... Any Ideas??
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Were there any problems running Filemaker Server with IE6 or IE 7? I remember there was a problem running IE5.5 with FMS 5. I'm just making sure that there weren't issues like that. Thanks.
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I've got Filemaker 8.5 and Filemaker Server 8, but what I'm interested in here is ordinary Filemaker Pro 8.5 at the moment because I use it for testing. The advertising blurb says that you can connect via JDBC to ordinary Filemaker Pro 8.5 from the same machine, not from another machine. Fine, but I've been trying for a whole day to connect to the port they say is waiting for jdbc connections which is 2399. There's a TestJdbc programme that I've installed and have been using, but although the driver is alive and well it can't get anything other than Connection Refused out of the 2399 port. I've got all the necessary permissions done, the user I'm trying t…
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Hello, I am trying to set up a peer to peer network with FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advance in Windows XP. I know that this version is limited to 5 clients. On the host, I have granted full access in privileges for filemaker network and also enabled sharing with TCP/IP also given network access to "All users". When I goto a client computer and try to access through "Open Remote" and type in the IP and file name, I get an error message: "File Name" could not be opened. The host's capacity was exceeded, try again later. This is while NO one or clients are accessing the file, just the host has it opened on his computer. I cannot figure out why? Please help me. …
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I would like to change the default DB location on my FM Server and can not find how to do it. I have added the path to where I wish to have my file but I still want to know how to change the default location. The current location is C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerDataDatabases
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Hello, all Our FMP 5.5 server decides to quit working, so we move the data to a new box with the same IP, but we upgraded the OS to 10.4.8 Apparently, the openers don't work anymore. We just wonder what may cause this behavior? The server has the same IP setting. Thank you for your answer,
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I've found a strange pattern of behavior with FMS in that when I stop running the service, FMS deletes any schedules I've set up and any configurations I've set. The identifier for the web publishing engine disappears and I have to re-enter it. This seems really counter to any software I've ever used. Am I missing something? If anyone know why this happens or how to fix it, I'd love to hear it. Thanks for your consideration. Will
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I'm using Filemaker Server Advanced 8 on Mac OS X Tiger Server. Trying to use a custom homepage (iwp_home.html) but the graphics on the page won't display. All text and formatting appears but no images. Weird. I've messed with permissions for those files etc and nothing seems to clear this up. Images are in the same folder (IWP) as the iwp_home.html page. I used the same custom html page with simple IWP on Filemaker and that worked fine, but under server advanced it doesn't work. Anybody know what's going on here? Thank you for your consideration. Will
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hi all, I got a standalone database running on a dozen of laptop or desktop boxes (mac & pc). From time to time, I need to sync one field, stored locally, with a FMP server file. is there any simple way to do this ? SyncDek is not cost effective for me. thank's, Fab.
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Hello, I am having problems hosting the FM solution "Work Requests". It seems that FMPro clients see an incomplete UI; there are missing file placeholders, no labels on buttons, etc. It seems the functionality is still there, it's just that one has to have memorized the UI completely. In web version (hosted through CWP in Server 8 Advanced) certain graphic elements are also missing. My feeling is that these two issues are related, but I am at a loss to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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After overnight maintenance (?) with TechTool pro 4 (Mac OSX 10.4.8), two processes keep interfering with starting up my FMP files (with the error message that another file is already hosted on this computer): - fmserverd - fmserver_helperd Also as soon as I start up FMP, I see FM Web Publishin with the Activity Monitor Despite turning all settings for this off; - sharing options, - removed all sample databases from root/Library/FileMakerServer/data/databases - disabled web publishing from SystemPrefs I get tired of killing the above processes with Terminal or the Activity Monitor. More importantly, I would like to understand what is causing th…
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