FileMaker Server General Discussions
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I have posted this before, but can't find if this issue has been resolved... I am using FM server on Win2K. I have a single database which is access by approx 5 users - all of which are NT4 users. In general, all is fine... howevewr, approx once per month, a user will attempt to perform a task (which we have not identified as a single task) and a date field will change so that every record will have this same date.. This is a db file in which usually only one of the five users will acess this date field. This field is either filled manually or by selecting via a button on a calendar. This user has mentioned that the screen will redraw and record by record (in list …
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What are the limitations on # of records / file size with FM5 Server? We are currently running 2 NT 3.0 Servers and have files that are getting close to the 250MB limit of FM4. We are considering upgrading 80 seats and the servers soon, but need much more storage capacity for some future projects.
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After reading through lots of documentation I am hoping someone here can help... I am trying to successfully make a large upgrade jump from FM 3 to FM 6 in an office of about 12 users. We have been sharing databases over our network via FM 3, running in MAC OS 9, until now. As we have moved everything over to OS X, FM is the next thing to bring up to speed. All the new bells & whistles in FM 6 and FMS are making the transition a bit more confusing than I had expected. I have installed FM Server 5.5v2 on an iMac. It's not a workstation and will only be used to serve FM databases. I can start the server running using the FileMaker Server Config applicat…
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Hello I have a G4 running os 10.2 and file maker 5.5 server...we had an outside vendor create the filemaker database that tracks student progress...to tell the truth it runs great with very little admin work needed....In each class room i have an iMac running os 9.2. and the teachers log into the file maker with password...at least once a month a teacher will log in and create a new record and enter info about the student...exit and when they log in again the record is no where to be found....the vendor has blamed every thing under the sun... switches to old replaced the 3com with cisco...replaced the cat5 running from the server to the switch...its not the same person…
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I am wondering if anyone can point me to a white paper or something similar that lays out all the various aspects of FM that change when a file is being served? I currently know of two: 1. Global fields are no longer truly "global" when a file moves to a server. These fields now become different for each user. 2. Export paths can get confused. I export small text files for use in our DOS network. I have recently learned the hard way that if I set up a new export script directly in a file being served, then the path of that script becomes variable depending on the user. I had to pull a copy off the server, open it locally, rememorize the path, then reinsta…
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Ive got errors in the event log continuously, more specified these two types: Event Id (2003) The description for event (2003) on source Filemaker server) cannot be found The local computer may not have the necessary regisitry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: . event id (1008) The open procedure for service "Filemkaer server" in DLL "C:program filesfilemakerfile maker server 5.5fmsperf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. Status code returned is data DWORD 0. I
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Hello, we are running FMServer 5.5 on Windows 2000 Server. The FMserver service was using Administrator to start up. We changed this by creating a "fmserver" user and giving it all necessary rights (we think) to start the service. However, since this change, we keep getting the following in our backup log (We use Backup Exec 9): WARNING: "C:Documents and SettingsfilemakerLocal SettingsTempFMSERVER.TMP" is a corrupt file. This file cannot verify. WARNING: "C:Documents and SettingsfilemakerLocal SettingsTempRemote Administrationfmserver_Admin" is a corrupt file. This file cannot verify. WARNING: "C:Documents and SettingsfilemakerLocal SettingsTem…
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I must admit up front I have been programming in FM for 8 years but only recently have my customers forced me into the world of Servers! After reading most of the posts in the Server Performance Statistics thread, I am hopelessly confused. I have a customer using FMP Server 5.5 and Citrix with over 300 users. They are networked over fiber optic lines over a county. There are approximately 8,000 records in the database (4 related FM files). I know there are issues with Citrix but I have no control over that. (When the system was first setup and the customer had trouble printing, the tech said, "You didn't tell me you wanted to print!" OAY!!) The lady who is i…
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I have 4 copies of FMP 4, and want to put them on a network with FMP Server as custodian. Will FMP Server 3 work for this, or do I need FMP Server 4? TIA
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We have been having instability problems with FM Server 5.5v3 on Mac OS X 10.2. We switched from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X about four weeks ago and we were not having these problems until recently. Symptoms
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I am looking at a copy of FMP Server 3 for Windows NT on Ebay. I have a small office network that has Windows XP on two computers, Windows 2000 on another and Windows 98 on a fourth. Does anyone know if this software will work with this mix? Thanks,
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I am running FMServer 5.5 on a Dell 2ghz machine with windows 2000. I am work in a large organization whose IT department has encountered numerous security problems especially in recent months(not the fault of my computer). There has been a major push that all machines have Zenworks(Novell)administrative software installed on them. I have been able to fight off these IT guys, but it appears now they are closing in on our FM machine. They tell me the need to install this Zenworks on my machine and to gain Windows administrative rights on it. The sole purpose of this machine is that it serve Filemaker files for our workgroup and for another computer running Filemaker unlimi…
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The server running FM Server shuts down due to a power outage. 1) When FM S is restarted, it performs consistency check. (right?? correct me if I'm wrong!!) 2) An alert message is placed in the server event log, right ? 3) Does the user accessing remotely the files via FMP see anything about the databases did't close properly ? 4) Is it possible to see if a file didn't close properly anytime in the past ? 5) Could someone explain me the server event log/last log/excess log behaviour ? Thanks in advance for any help!
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Hi all, I got FMS 5 running on Windows 2000 Professional. Generally it's behaving well with small databases. I have one file that exceeds 16000 records, and FMS is breathtakingly slow with that one. I tried to increase FMS process priority in Task Manager, but it did not allow the access. I'm logged in as admin of the machine. Any thoughts? :confused:
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Greetings all, I have been asked to build a new FMP Server box to replace our aging current server. I have read the FMP Server best practice PDF offered on filemaker.com but sill would like to have your hands-on-based opinions: Keep in mind that our organization has about 10 users requiring local FMP access, 20 users requiring access through Terminal Service (almost equivalent to local access). We also serve part of our database system for public access (only search access, no editing) through Custom Web Publishing but we only get a couple hundreds of database hits a day. We currently own FMP Server 5.0, FileMaker Pro 5.0 Unlimited and FileMaker Pro 5.0 and woul…
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I am in the process of setting up a FileMaker DB to replace our ancient ACT contact management system. I was hoping to use the FileMaker Solution Framework as a starting point. I opened the Sol. Framework in FMP6 to make the files multi-user. I also modified the 'File Options' in the framework to allow sharing of the files. Once these changes were made, I moved the files to the FMS5.5 installation folder and started the FMS service. From the remote system, I opened the 'Menu.FP5' file served from the FMS host. However, when I tried click the links to the other files from the menu file, a pop-up error appeared with the following text: ADMINISTRATOR: You must have…
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Hi. I have Filemaker Server version 5.5 hosting 15 related databases to 12 users, and at times it runs annoying slow, especially when switching from 1 database to another. Its hosted on a Windows Small Business Server 2000, Hardware is 1GHz Pentium III with 512Mb RAM. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Mark :smirk:
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A followup to my prior question: Can a powerbook running as a client go "off-line" and continue to run the database and collect data when not within airport range, and then synchronize its new data with the server when back "on-line"?
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Can I run a multiuser database from an Apple G5 Dual 2.0 using Airport Extreme and Powerbooks?
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I'm wondering if somebody has ever tried running multiple instances of Filemaker server on one machine, a bit like running several web sites on one machine. I could imagine that this could be possible, given a high bandwidth network connection, fast hard drives and processor and an OS of the *nix flavor. Reason to do this would be to offer affordable Filemaker Server services to third parties, since using a separate machine for every client would be considerably more expensive. Anybody any ideas about this? Regards, Ernst.
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I've got three clients who are using OS X and FileMaker Server 5.5 and who are all experiencing crashes and data loss. Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Help!
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hi I have a windows 2000 server machine that only has a five user licence ie i can only have 5 pc's connected to it at a time does this mean if I put fm server on it I could only connect five filemaker clients to it help please
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Just curious -- how many concurrent users access your databases? I looked through the server statistics thread and the largest number of guests I saw was 73. My curiosity is sparked, in part, by a thread I read on another forum that had many people saying MS Access only handles up to 5 concurrent users before its performance tanks. So I'm wondering how many users FM can handle, realistically. M.
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Hello everybody! We have two servers: - Server A runs FileMaker Server 5.5 on Mac OS X - Server B runs a Terminal Server on Windows Server 2003 FileMaker Pro 6.0 is installed on the Terminal Server for the users. Both servers have fix IPs (81...) so they can be accessed from the Internet. Up to now, users had to connect from their local computers using FileMaker Pro to FileMaker Server to use the databases. Now we'd like to migrate some of them to the Terminal Server. We have linked the two servers using a gigabit-ethernet directly (both servers have two network-cards). This link uses internal IP-addresses (192.168.*.*). This way the traffic between th…
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I'm fairly new to FM. I've installed FM Pro 6 on the client and FM Server 5.5 on the server. Both are Mac machines. I think the server is in a good state (up and running). When I get on the client, I go "file, open remote". An empty box opens up - no choices. Does anyone have an idea where I should look for the problem? Thanks. [color:"green"]
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I am a FMP newbie and am having trouble understanding the FMP server/client relationship. Are the files on FMP server generally open all the time or is it okay to have a script run on the client side which opens the files? If this is the case, once the db is open on the server (because someone is logged into it) if someone else goes to log in, does it "open" the files again or does this user log onto an open file already, since another user is using it? I am probably not making any sense, but if someone understands my ? and can help me I will be eternally gratfeful. Thanks [color:"blue"]
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Hi, I have created db's using FMP 6.0 and was wondering what is the lowest version of FMP server that will work with FMP 6.0. Thanks color:purple]
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I am running Filemaker Server 5.5 and hosting a number of DB's. I have 4 clients attaching to the server. My problem is after a user omits a record and then closes down his/her copy of Filemaker on the client side, then reopens Filemaker and logs into the DB all the records are showing including the ones that have been omited. Not sure why this is happening. Can any suggest something to fix this? Thanks
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Heather McCue posted a possible solution to the problem of file corruption when using the OS X version of Filemaker Server. Basically it was a timing issue, were closing the database or stopping the service does not immediately release the files, although it might appear that way to the user. Waiting for several minutes before doing anything with the files seemed to solve the problem.
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I hate this error. Using Remote Server Administration (RSA) I closed a folder containing 8 hosted files for maintenance. I then opened one of the files and copied the file as a "clone with no records" to another folder on the server. The files in the target folder were being hosetd at the time I created the new file in the target folder. Anyway, when I started the RSA again and tried to reopen the original 8 files only a couple of them would open. The rest gave me the message Error occurred; unable to open file. The file I opened and made a copy of is one of the files that won't open. What in the )!(&@*$!^((*^*@ is going on with this? I opened and closed the files in…
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Does anyone have a detailed set of instructions for how to actually use data from an active directory within filemaker? I want to create a value list of usernames from the domain. This should be relatively straight forward, yes? Thanks! -- Chevell
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FP server OS9 I am only guessing this is where I should be posting my question. I recently put all db on a server to host through out the company, which is located in another area in the building. When I launch the program, I am a guest. This will not allow me to change from multi-user to single user mode, or view any password settings, even though I have the master password?:? Is this standard server settings? Do I have to do all the changes from the location the files are being hosted from?, or is there another way? :confused:
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When you connect to a host through FileMaker Pro Client, you can specify the IP address of the host. There is a check box to permanently add the address to your list of remote hosts. Is there a way to remove these IP addresses?
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Hey All, I'm not entirely sure if this quesiton belongs in this category of questions, but I get the feeling that it's somewhat related... I have made a database for my company; this database is comprised of about 9 files, all placed in one folder. Many of the 9 files are related to one-another using relationships'n whatnot... e.g. one of the files generates an invoicing-report which pulls-in information from a couple of the other files. Soon, my boss wants me to move the entire database onto a common server so that everyone in the company can have access to the database from different places. My question is, when I transfer this folder (full of all…
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I'm new to FileMaker Server, so maybe this is a simple question, maybe not. I've developed a FileMaker program for a non-profit group as a stand alone, one desktop program. Now I've been informed that they wish to run this program off their server. Since only a few people may be using this program at any given time, do they have to purchase FileMaker Server or can FileMaker 6 handle it? I know you can peer-to-peer the software, but that's one area I haven't dealt with. Thanks.
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We are performing some maintenance on our Windows NT server, and in the meantime, I installed FileMaker Server 5 on a 350 MHz iMac, running Mac OS 9.2.2. I allocated about 100 MB RAM to FMServer, but it looks like it's only utilizing about 5% of that (maybe FMServer's suggested size). So I'm wondering... Why is network performance about 50 to 75% that of the NT server? Many have politely told me that it's really slow today... And I agree. I actually thought it would be faster. I made sure to check the "Maximize Performance" button, but I'm now eyeing the database cache setting. I looked at the Usage Statistics (see screenshot) and it appears as if I'm maxing…
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Hi, Just wondering what is the final verdict. Is it that FMS always uses port# 5003, and FMP can use any port? Same port #s on both Mac and Windows? The reason I'm asking is I want to block unused TCP/UDP ports on Windows, and want to know what I'm doing first.
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O.K. I realize this has been covered multiple times in this forum, I guess I want confirmation. I host approximately 30 FM files in a small user (10 or so) environment running FMPro Server 5.5. After reading these boards for a long time, I've finally decided to split FM Server off our main W2K server running SBS. I'm going to purchase a dedicated box to server FM. I'm really doing this to increase performance, so I hope it works. (You've worn me down to where I feel like it makes sense!) Couple of Questions: 1) Everyone seems to agree that for a Windows Platform to use W2K client (not server). I'm cool with this, but I'm curious as to why the FM best …
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I have a client in another state. They have just installed the solution I developed and I am trying to access the files remotely (they are using FM Server on a PC, I'm using Developer on a Mac). I have the machines static IP address, all the files are set to multi-user with remote data access sharing checked and their local machine has the plug-ins checked as well. When I enter their IP address nothing happens. Why? Is there a better way to administer the system remotely? Thanks. -Ruth
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Hello, I was wondering if someone can help me. i was wondering how i can migrate 22 databases which are informat fm 3.0 to fm 6.0 without doing one at time. is there a way to create a script to do the job. Thanks, Victor
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Anyone know of any conflicts with FMServer and Windows 2003 server? Has anyone used this setup? We are planning on installing Windows 2003 server on our new servers. It gave us good performance boosts with SQL Server and we are hoping the same with FMP. John
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I am fairly new to filemaker...If I am using filemaker server and I create a database using filemaker pro, would every computer running on a network have to have filemaker installed on their computer? Or can they just access the database via the server and not have to install filemaker on every system... Thanks
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Is there any way to turn off some of the many events that show up in the application log?
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Hi Everybody, I am quite new to filemaker but as the package is so easy to learn, already in the process of building a 30 file multiuser database. As I have no previous experience with Filemaker, especially not with such a big DB ı want to avoid pitfalls. I am considering to run FM Server. Havent bought one yet but have already researched in the Web. Q1: 3 possibilities: 1-Buy from FM İnc. (999.-US$) 2-Buy from companies likea Atomic park...(869.-US$) 3-Buy from CDW or Cos central (FM server 5.5 VLA)(699.-US$) I have no Idea what VLA means, and what is the benefit if I buy from FM direct. Q2: When I have calculation…
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I have a chance to get a copy of Filemaker Server 5 cheap, but all my machines are running FMP 4. Will this work?
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I just got off the phone with Technical Support........ I had a series of databases over the last couple of months that have been closing incorrectly but when I recovered them it said that everything was fine. Today, the server just shut down one of the files, so I decided to call technical support. This tech told me that I had to do the following procedure! Find a really old backup. Clone it. Recover it for the structure. Make changes to it so it matches the current version. Export the data in a merge file. Import the data to the clone. Recover it. And then put it back out there. Since I thought the recovery process was really re…
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Although my dbs are hosted by our network server (NT 4.0), when users go to open the files, they get a message "The file was write-protected, you will not be able to make changes". I have moved the files into the same directory, one level up, and one level down from the Filemaker Server executable location, with no success. To get around it, I have to close the service on the server, so one of the users becomes the host. I'm certain I'm missing something easy here; hopefully someone can enlighten me!
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Hello group, Is there a way to create a shortcut or alias so your database just opens when server by filemaker. Instead of opening filemaker and navigating to the database. Thanks d
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I am buying a new machine to host filemaker server. Best results are apparently on win2000. Is there anybody making win2000prof machines that will have RAID and scusi drives?
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Hi All, We have a major problem with Filemaker server here, and I would really appreciate some advice or help! Apologies in advance for the long post, but I want to make sure I've included any information that may be relevant. Our Filemaker system here is FM Server 5.5, with 5.5 Clients on the desktop. The server is Windows NT/SP6, clients are a mix of 98,NT,2K and XP. We also have a Filemaker unlimited web solution, running with Apache/Linux and the Java plugin. In total, there are around 107 databases, the largest of which is around 150Mb in size. This is the one we seem to be constantly having problems with. The system is under reasonable load most…
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Good day, everyone, I would like to open all files being served off of FM Server 5. My thought has been to obtain a list of all files on the server, and then simply use a script to Open each of them. But, I have two problems. First, I don't know how to obtain a list of all files on the server dynamically. The list of files will change on a regular basis as I am developing a very large solution. And second, how do I use the Open script command with, possibly, a value stored in a field? Once all files are opened, I can use the script commands to get the list of the all the files and perform my operations. But the key to my challenge is to get all the fil…
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I need advice badly. I have two FMP databases, the first has one related file (one to many), and the other has three interrelated files (main file is one to many in file B, while files C & D are lookup files to control actions of file . The main file in both databases contains information about cancer patients, their relations/friends, and donors to a non-profit organization providing free support to recovering cancer patients. These two databases were created in FMP 3 and converted to FMP 4 (I intend to convert the resulting files to FMP 5.) They were independently created to run on a pair of Macintosh PCs, and were stand alone applications. They share a great …
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Hey kids, FMServer 5.0 on Windows NT. I haven't done anything in the FMServer Console in months. Just tried to now, and I can't access anything. The console comes up, but when I click on one of the icons (e.g. Database hosting), nothing happens. Any ideas? Thanks, Paul
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When administrating a FMServer remotely, there are 3 databases. There is FM_Admin, FM_Usage & FM_Data. What is the FM_Data database supposed to show? Mine is only showing Host Minutes and nothing else. How is this database used? I can't get to it from the FM_Admin database can I? I know its there for a reason, I just haven't been able to figure out what that reason is. Thanks, John
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Filemaker has recently posted a Tech Info article on its website that effectively trashes OS X as a suitable host for Filemaker server. Tech info article 108428, posted 5 August, says that the only way to safely close files hosted under OS X is to manually access the server from another machine using the admin plug in and close each file by hand, one by one. This is more than just a pain. It means that there is no way to gracefully handle a forced shut down of the server computer when the administrator is not present, for example due to an overnight power cut. Having a temporary battery back-up will not protect the databases from damage because there is no autom…
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Is it possibile to run both apps on the same machine (mac w/mac os 9) simultaneously ? Is it possible that FMP opens via host menu the files served by FMS running on the same machine ? This way I would not need another machine to run night scritps or batch operations.
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Hi, I am Windows User, FMP 5.5 I wonder there is a way to serve multi files at a time from Client sidee by Remote Administration Window. I can close/unserve multi files by clicking the serving folder name that contain my fileS, then click CLOSE button, but I serve the FILES, but when I need to serve them back:I am able to serve ONLY one file at a time. And I have about 45 files. I wonder do I miss anything or that's the way it is? Thank you in advange
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I am starting this topic as reference for known FM server performance. So far I
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http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1605 Here are the release notes, as they are: 2. New in FileMaker Server 5.5v3 2.1. FileMaker Server will now correctly index fields that have been set to use the Danish language for indexing. Did they really not try to fix the corruption bugs???
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I'm running V5 of server. I want to access my database over the internet from a remote office. The offices are behind firewalls. What would be the best way to do this? I have opened port 5003 and am forwarding it to the internal IP of the server but it is not working. Can this be done this way? Is their a better way for me to do this? Would web client be better? How about over a VPN? Thanks!
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Currently, the only users of the db are MAC OS 9.1 clients (one box is a new OSX/Classic mode "dual booter"), and it is hosted on one of those boxes. The plan however is to have a couple PC users jump onto the db after an upgrade to to 6.x, we are I think 4.1/4.2 now, so its a bit of a leap. I know just about nothing about FileMaker and I'm not a MAC guy, I mainly keep the network up and the WinNT4/2k servers running and doing thier thing. So I need to decide are we going to host this db server on an OSX box for 9.1/OSx/Win32 clients, or should I stick it on a 2k box? So that is the advice I'm looking for. Everyone is on the same subnet, it would not get alot of…
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We are looking to migrate from System 9.2 server to an OS X server with Filemaker Server 5.5. We have about 10 people using FMP 6.0 from their (currently all System 9.2) Macs with light to moderate usage of about 20 shared databases. What is the best way to go about this? Can/should I run FMS 5.5 under OS X Server? Can I run it on my OS X Server under System 9.2? Is that a better way to go? Any and all help is appreciated.
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I have a PB G4 running OSX the client has Windows Server. Running FMP Server. I need to get a copy of the files from the server to my computer. But they don't have a CD burner. the files are over 200mb. How do I setup a share point on the server to give me access so I can copy the files? Thanks...
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Hi, Office setup OS :XP FMP6 FMS Home Setup FMP6 A question about programming with FMP6 and then putting the database in a server enviornment. When I program at home without server running I Define relationships, use open script steps etc by using the folder name in open file window. If I then take this database to the office (WIth Filemaker server) do I need to re-define these links using the Host button in the open file window or does server 'magically' take care of this ? Thanking you in advance.
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Hi, Is there a way to have a unique calculation field? This calculation field is the result of three other text fields. The combination of these three fields has to be unique in the database. FMP doesn't give me the option of unique when creating the calculation field. Is there a work around for this? Thanks Stanley
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I have a client which has 5 local users within a LAN and 7 remote users via VPN, all hitting the FMP 5.5 server. The local users are experiencing the "worm" on some very simple work procedures (sorting on indexed fields...etc) and are complaining about the slow performance. I know that FMPServer processes are single threaded. So what I suspect is that the remote users and their workload are dragging the down local users performance. Meaning, the local users server requests must wait in line behind the remote users server requests. This in effect slows the entire system to a grinding halt. Any light somebody may shed on this subject is greatly appreciated. …
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Let me start of with the fact that I am a babe-in-the-woods here. Six years ago I developed two FMP systems for a non-prof that offers free support to cancer victims and their families. One system tracks Participant activities and various statistics (type of cancer, Oncologist's name, etc.). The other tracks donor activity and generates acknowledgement letters. Both were developed in FMP 4.1. I am now being asked to perform a major upgrade in which I will integrate the two systems, and add an accounting module. I know enough about FMP to know that I can make the programs work. BUT, they have a new 7 station office network (all PCs running Windows XP), and they want a…
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We installed FM Server 5 a couple of weeks ago and it has been working great. I set the Guest related properties in the FM Console to not disconnect guests idle for any amount of time. I did this because we have a machine running FMP Unlimited that needs to maintain a connection all the time. Last night the server disconnected several guests stating that they had been idle. I checked the properties and they haven't changed from what I set originally. Why would the server do this out of the blue? Does anyone have any idea why it would have done this? Thanks, John
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I have a bunch of FM dbs running on 2 FmServers on my network - for some reason I can no longer see these servers when starting up FMPro on a different machine and pressing "hosts" in the open file dialog... DNS is ok, pings are fine, I can traverse accross the network and access the databases on the servers via the F$ admin share ( didn't open just making sure no network funny stuff was going on.) I can dump the IP address in there but since we have everything distributed accross 2 servers it chokes whenever it wants a db living on server # 2 - None of my other LAN connected boxes have this problem except for this one Terminal Server machine I am referring to... …
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Working with File Maker 6 and Windows cant see the images on the remote computer (can see them on server) what can cause the problem? all other files come ODBC. images come from a folder under c:/Program files/ file maker server5.5
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So my IT guys just came by and switched my server computer (Windows NT Server)from a public IP to a private IP. Now when I try to start FM Server 5.5, I get an error message that says, "The FileMaker Server Service returned server specific error 11." When I check out the Event Viewer, I see an Event ID 91: FileMaker Server quitting! Temporary file could not be created. Anyone know what's up? Thanks! Courtney
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Okay. I'm totally lost. I've been using fm for years. I have 6.0 running on all my machines. Now I bought the Server and installed it on its own machine and don't know where to go from here. I have machines running 98 and some 2000 and two on XP. I have a Novell server that we all log into and that's where I store all my FM files. I was told that if I install the Server on its own machine it'll make things faster. I don't know how to see it from my other machines, I don't know how to move files to it, can't get remote admin to work. So far with Novell we see the drive on the server as either F, G or H so I can access files by going to H:... What do I do with this Server m…
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I have several databases being hosted on FM Server 5.5. I want to run a Crystal report against a database that is being hosted. I created a FMP ODBC data source. In the configuration of the data source, it allows you to use a remote connection. You then specify either the server name or IP address. I get this all set up and then go into Crystal and try to see the databases using the ODBC data source I just creatd. It gives me an ODBC error. Should I be able to do an ODBC call to a FMP database hosted on a FM Server or do I have to have the database open on a client and access the database locally on the client? It seems like to me that I should be able…
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Is there any body who use autoupdate plug-in. What is the usege of it?? I read filemaker help but i dont understand " to automatically install or update required or outdated plug-ins. " this part.
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Okay, I tried this on the general forum and am not getting anywhere so I'll take a shot here. I am familiar with FM since v1. I am totally lost with server. I have a number of machines 98, 2000, xp, networked together and I use Novell on a server. That's where most of our files are. So we go to the server - disk F:, G: or H: to get or give files. FM recommended FM server. SO I installed it on a new machine that's running 2000. I followed instructions to allow remote admin. Basically I can't do a thing with it. How do I find the machine from my workstation? Hosts doesn't even show it. How do I copy files from my Netware server (like from disk H:fmfiles} to the new FM Serve…
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Hi all, I am looking for a good/reliable FMP host service to host my FMP files over DSL connection Thank you
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I am using an iBook to connect to a Win 2000 server with a wireless Airport card. When I close the laptop, it goes to sleep mode. I lose my connection with my FMPro host on Filemaker Server, but the network connection remains intact. I saw a relevant post, #49475 with the same problem. The error message this generates is "Connection with host was interupted & could not be re-established
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What are the differences between FMServer 5 and FMServer 5.5? For example, will FMServer 5 support FM6 databases, does FMServer 5 run on Win2K? Thanks
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We are running a business soultion with 140 concurrent users. It
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I know this question has been answered before but how do you change a database name with multipule relationships and using FM Server 5.0?
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Hi everybody. I have been making a CRM solution who i served on a W2K workstation with FM Server 5.5. On the same machine i have a FM Pro 6 client runing to do some update scripts. My problem is that each time the Update script (Importing some files) the machine is going very slow and the FM Pro service i using 100% of the processer. Can someone help me out here ? The server is a Compaq 2 Ghz Server with plenty of Ram and W2K workstation installed, with alle MS Service packs.
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Had a power outage today and it was long enough that my UPS sent my network into shutdown mode. In theory, it properly shut down FMS. Some of the attached clients weren't on backup power so when power went, so did they. 1-2 users may have been connected at the time. Restarted FMS, files were loading, but very slowly (go to hosts, not all files would be there, go to hosts again, a few more would be there.). Not all the files showed up so i restarted the FM service. That got it going. Users complain of no "find" mode in main 2 files (linked). I check with my master password, same thing. Shut down server, open just as a file, same thing. Double check pass…
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I have written a system in FM PRo 5.5 which will be used by my client whose PCs will all be running FM Pro 6. I know that this is not a problem. The number of files and users make the use of FM Server desirable if not essential. I am considering bying a copy of FM Server 5 at a good price fronm an internet auction. Are these compatible ? Many thanks in anticipation. ( I am a part-time developer whilst training to be a teacher) Andrew Bruno
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Hello Everyone, We seem to continue to receive this error code. I can't seem to find anything on it and was hoping someone here could shed some light on this. The message with the error is " Communication with the host was lost and could not be reastablished. At first I thought it was the server disconnecting an idle user but this is not the case. Any Ideas on how to solve this? Thanks, Michael
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Whenver we shut the server down that is hosting 25 files one or more become damaged and have to be recovered! It's crazy, it's seems to be random files. The log appears to be closing files then confirming the closure and usually one file ends up with a could not close possibly damaged error. What the heck is happening here!!! Anyone else see this?
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Hey all! We've been using FMS 5.5v1 on our MacOS X 10.2 Server for quite a while now. Since we have the 'regular' corruption problems, we figured, some scheduled backups during the day would entlighten our life a lot. So i put up a few schedules for backing up at certain times of the day (ie. 12.30 lunch start) to have FMS make a backup of the databases to a folder on a separate disk. No problem you'd say, but the weird part is, it doesn't backup! :S One schedule has run once, the other 3 have never. All schedules are enabled and the 'Run Schedules' menu item is checked on. Searching this forum, i couldn't find any earlier occurrence of this problem (i…
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Not only is OS X Server completely un-stable, reproducing issues to test work arounds is nearly impossible. Server has now taken to crashing sporadically when backing up to a fire wire drive. Well at least it produces a concatenated crash log with stack dump info called: fmservd.crash.log. I guess FMI left debug info on in this release.
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I've got FM server on an iMac server with three clients on the network. Two powerbooks and another iMac. One of the powerbooks and the iMac can both access the files without issue. The other powerbook client has upgraded to FM 6 and can't access the files at all. The list of files comes up under local hosts, but when we tried to open any of them, the password screen flashes for about a second and then disappears and then nothing happens. We even copied the files to his hard drive off of the server and had the same issue,,, Additionally, when we try to go to preferences in Filemaker, the screen pops up for a second and then disappears. We sat there and reinstalled FileMake…
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Hi, I have downloaded the Trial Version of FMServer 5.5. Firstly: I have tried to install this on my Windows ME machine, but cannot. Do I have to install it onto a Windows NT or 2000 PC? Secondly: Can I create standalone database files and then serve them up with this trial version of server?
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I have a dual processor server with win 2k server and a proprietary app. The fmp server I currently use (windows NT) is about ready to die and its slow. I want to move the FMP server over to the 2k server with the fast scsi drives. Are there any issues. Do I still control the server with 2K server the same as nt workstation? I can't seem to find a lot of documentation on the usage. Anyway thanks
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2 out of our 8 FM users are on OSX and use FM 5.0 in the Classic surrounding. When one of this OSX users host the Server nobody of the OS9 users can host de server anymore. Is there someone who has the same problem or knowes what the problem can be. Also FM is performing very slow in OSX .
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hello all, I am new to this forum and have a question i currently have FMpro server running on a 604e 200mhz mac os 8.6 i have no intentions of upgrading to a newer server because this would mean updating all the ver. 4 clients as well. my question is what would be the highest os i should run with server 3, i have a B/W G3 available
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We are a small K-8 school (300 students) using a FM Server 5.0.2 for our school database on a Mac network (9.2) If we were to get another server, could we easily run two servers, one for the main school database, and a second as a student server for their projects, to learn about databses, etc. But we would not want the students to even see the main database. Would like this to happen without jumping through too many hoops. Any thoughts? Cheers
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filemaker 5.5 server on linux filemaker 5.5 clients on 2 windows nt, 1 windows 98, 1 windows xp, 1 mac os 10.2 Everything works great in windows. I have an image database where I import references to the images that are on the linux server. I do all the importing with the troi file plugin on windows. I know that the mac is not able to see a reference to the image but now i need a workaround for this. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the mac to even do an import or insert from the server. The server share does not show up on the window when I go to insert picture, quicktime, etc. It shows up if I use the troi plug-in, but none of the files can …
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I'm about to build a new server (going from a PII 266 w/ 128mb of ram (ran pretty dang well on that) to a PIII 866 w/ 512mb ram. How can i copy my settings from my old server to new? Thanks -j
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I'm totally new with FM. I have a database (with whole bunch of .fp5 files) and it needs to be "loaded" to a dedicated server running FMS 5.5. I would like to know how to put the database files to the server so that the clients, which are running FM Pro 6, can open and share the database. Orginally I created a new folder in W2K server, shared the folder, and just opens the .fp5 file from the share. After reading some comments and document, I don't think using windows share is a good idea. Now, I need to know a proper way to load and share the database from FMS. Can some one give me a hand? TIA
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Is it possible to serve up data from a fm server 5 via ODBC? I've tried to do it via a fm 6 workstation connected to the db from the server, but all I get are the field titles, no data. can it do it? ta
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I am running FMP Server (v.5) under Mac OS9. Recently had to relocate it to our company's central data center. I need to have the ability to password protect the entire computer, much like Mac OS X built in screensaver that has the password option. I do not want use a screen saver that is application based as that degredates the performance of FMP server. All I really want to do is dim the screen to black, and enable a password to protect it from unwanted use. Will a control panel based screen saver degredate the server's performance the same way an application based one does? Right now, upgrading FMP server to the OS X version is not an option which I realize would fix m…
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