FileMaker Server General Discussions

Please help, I have just installed FileMaker Server 5.5 on our Mac OS Xserver machine and am trying to "serve" some files on our LAN. We have a mixture of Macs (some OS X and some OS 9.2). The problem is that the Macs running OS 9.2 can not "see" the files being hosted by the Xserver machine while the Macs running OS X can see the files being hosted. I don't know why this is (I am a Filemaker newbie) and really need some assistance. Thank you in advance for ANY help.

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cosmo145

February 12, 200322 yr

I have a database that contains data as well as images. It is hosted with FM Server 5.0 on a Mac with OS 9.2.2. When a Mac laptop with a secondary monitor at a remote site logs on, the data is visible and editable, but the images are not. When the secondary monitor is unplugged from the laptop, the images are viewable (on the laptop monitor). Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it. My client can't unplug their secondary monitor every time they want to see the images. - thank you

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stac_1

February 11, 200322 yr

Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with this one. One Mac with Webstar 4.5, Lasso plugin 3.6.6, Filemaker 5.0.3 and Webcompanion 5.0.6 on Os 9.1 Another Mac with Filemaker server 5.5.1 on Os 9.2.2 serving all databases The first lasso page using an inline is served ok. But Webstar won't listen anymore to more requests. And it hangs when i try to quit webstar. But when i open the same databases directly in filemaker client, then there is no problem and every page is served ok. So it seems that the link between client and server is behaving strangely. I tried switching from appletalk to tcp and back. The same problem is occuring with fm server 5 but …

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byper

February 10, 200322 yr

I'm using FM Unlimited on an OS X Server cuz I need to display some calendar data on my website. If I want to make the calendar DB a host file on the X Server so other PCs can access it, do I need to install FM Server on the X Server? Or FM Unlimited will suffice? Thanks a lot!

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phatphish

February 10, 200322 yr

OSX (10.2.3) running Filemaker Server 5.5v2. Serves up files just fine. However my backup schedules do not run. I read the install instructions before loading to the letter. Logged in as root and installed program. Restarted after install and logged in as admin user and started Server Config. Served up the files from the Server App Folder (like was said to do). I have created different B/U schedules backing up the files to different places on the harddrive plus an external volume and none run. I attempted running it by the pulldown menu Run Schedule, but that too does not initiate action. Nothing in the log other than people logging into differnt DB's. Any sugg…

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bartman

February 10, 200322 yr

from: http://www.filemaker.com/products/fm_requirements.html "Our plan is that the new FileMaker 6 line will be our last developed for Mac OS 9." Why would anyone with FMPro 5.5- and Mac OSX+ want to invest in FMPro 6? Why not just wait for the version to be written for OSX+ Or does 6 really have that much more to offer? It's still single-threaded without queueing in ScriptMaker isn't it?

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jasonwood

February 8, 200322 yr

I'm sure this issue has probably been addressed at some point, but it's sure new to me. If I'm serving a FileMaker database to various users across a network, how do I handle users who need to access the databases from somewhere without a network connection (like from a tradeshow booth)? Is there a way to dump all the data from a served "online" database down to a local database that can be browsed "offline"? Obviously, changes couldn't be made to the "offline" version because then the databases would be out of sync and all kinds of headaches come to mind. Any thoughts are appreciated.

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Anatoli

February 7, 200322 yr

Hi, Please forgive me if I am not in the right section, but I could not appropriate one. I am looking for a reliable service rasonable price of Filemaker Host. There are a lots of FM Host out there, but any recommendation please Thank you.

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Anatoli

February 6, 200322 yr

I have a xServe with MacOS X 10.2.3 and gave the Built-In network card 5 IP addresses. Now I want to give FM Server 5.5. one of those addresses but it only sees the default one. I can't even click on the pop-up menu. What should I do ? Jeff

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jeffer

February 4, 200322 yr

Is it possible to have more than 1 administrator password for the FileMaker Server? How will LDAP help in administering FileMaker Servers other than making the databases visable in the LDAP directory? [color:"green"]

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fatson

January 31, 200322 yr

I develop and support a registered database that is used by non-profit organizations in 22 different states and resently a couple of these states have encountered a problem that while working in the database suddenly all the users will lose connection with the server. After the users each shut down and restart they can get back into the database except one table gets 'lost'. Sometimes this can be fixed by stopping the FileMaker Service on the server and restarting it. This problem has happened in 3 states, each having the problem with a different table. One state has had this happen quite often and to the point that the table gets damaged and other tables lose data. …

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jefferyp

January 29, 200322 yr

This may have been a fluke, but I would prefer to be able to avoid it in the future. FMP Server 5.5 on OS 9.04, 400 MHz iMac. 88 files. Peaks at about 30 users. At peak usage the cache hits look fine. Databases are speedy. System has run for over a year without a crash (was running FM Server 3.0 until several months ago). I reboot the system roughly every two weeks. Backs up self to hard drive at 12:15 (daytime). Server gets backed up to DLT1 around 12:40 (daytime) with Retrospect. Both of these operations slow things down for a couple minutes during the lunch hour, but at least we're definitely backed up. A user with FM 6 (v3 upgrade) on Windows 98 claims tha…

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ccosner

January 28, 200322 yr

Hi I've been trying to setup up a backup schedule in Server 5.5 on an iMac running OS X 10.2.3 that places the files on an eMac also running 10.2.3. initially this seemed to work when I mounted the eMac on the iMacs desktop but if either computer restarts the eMac is lost from the iMacs desktop and the schedule fails. Does anyone know if it's posssible to get FMP server to backup across a TCP/IP network without mounting the target disk on to the desktop, If so please share. Many thanks

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Guest

January 23, 200322 yr

Hi all, we are using fmserver with windows 2000 terminal services. So fmserver on dedicated win2k server machine (works fine) and everyone enters the data via fmpro on the terminal server. The problem I have is on this ts machine. fmpro takes sometimes 100% of the cpu (and not only when difficult things are done) server specs : raid 5 - 1024meg ram - 600mhz processor How to avoid ?? Thanx, Bruno

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Anatoli

January 22, 200322 yr

I tried everything suggested in the previous post. I am running FM Server 5.5 on a Windows XP Pro Machine and I want to back up FMP files to a Novell Server across a Novell Network. Is there anything special I need to do. I've tried to set up an account to log on to the remote machine, but I can't figure out what FM Server is actually doing when it attempts the backup. I get an error every time that the remote volume was not found. I've tried UNC names and mapped drive names and nothing works. I think that the workaround described in the knowledge base works in Windows networks, but not with Novell Networks. Any ideas?

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Anatoli

January 18, 200322 yr

We have a G4 with 9.2.2 running fm server 5.5, hosting 40 files. I have an automated applescript that reboots the machine daily. But, I'm still having occational crashes. This time it was when I clicked the "expand" triangle next to a filename in the admin window. The mac simply froze up and I had to manualy reboot. This happens occationally. I thought forcing a daily restart would take care of the problem ... but no dice. My only possible clue (though I have no idea of it's really connected to the problem at all), is that after an auto-reboot, the screen res. is stuck at 640x480, but it's fine (1024x768) after a manual reboot. Someone suggested i…

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Kurt Knippel

January 17, 200322 yr

Please help, I have FileMaker Server 5.5 running on a Mac OS Xserver and have placed a couple of test FileMaker pro files (built with FileMaker 5.X) in the same folder as the Server 5.5. I start the server and go to file->open and looked for the newly placed FileMaker files. They are listed but are "greyed out" (so I can't host them). I have tried restarting and still nothing. Any ideas would be great - at this point I am just trying to get a prototype database going. Thank you for any help.

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DykstrL

January 16, 200322 yr

Hi All, im looking in to purchasing a gigabit fiber network card for my Fm Server. the server is a G4 Mac running OS 9.2.2. The number of users logging on via our LAN (including VPN)on to the server is rapidly increasing. The GB connection will be between the FM Server and the Switch, this switch connects to our 'Stack'(4x 10/100 switches connceted via matrix cables, one of which conncets to this switch via a GB module)which Users connect to at 100mbps. so i m just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this? good/bad/Worthwhile idea? thanks, ricardo

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Guest

January 14, 200322 yr

The time has come for me to move to FM Server. Never having used server before I am woundering what I should think about before I start. I am considering a Win2000 professional box to run the system apx 512MB with a 80gig SCSI disk, I will have about 12 users to start with but this figure will rise rapidly in the first 12 months to a max of 25 in the next 12 months. We are using a mixture of 1 Mac client and the rest will be PCs. I will need to be able to get offsite access but this will be towards the summer as yet I am unsure how best to manage this side particularly regarding filemaker. The server will be hosting 50 files with a Lot of pictures, 13,000 and gro…

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Will

January 13, 200322 yr

I have about 6 database files that I want shared out onto the employee's computers. They all have FM6Pro. I have FM Server Installed on the server, but I don't know how to setup the files to be shared (other than through windows). I was reading through a .pdf and it said it's important to not share the files through windows sharing. How else am I going to be able to add shortcuts on the desktop for the employees to open the database? They are already set up as multi-user files. Please help!

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jasonwood

January 11, 200322 yr

We have about 10 users at different off-site locations, some using macs, others using PCs, all use Filemaker 6.0. Our server Filemaker 5.5 is running on a Windows 2000 server behind a firewall at our office (NYC). Offsite users come in using a general IP, and Filemaker requests are then routed to FM server behind firewall. Everything was working fine for 5 months, all of sudden over holidays several offsite users using TCP/IP access started experiencing very slow access, opening files, sorting, changing layouts, etc. Those users have no other slowdowns in browsing, etc. Slowdown experienced by 1. users using Earthlink from home 2. users on the University of Mi…

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Kurt Knippel

January 10, 200322 yr

I wonder if anyone has any more ideas on the sporadic file corruption with FMP Server 5.5v2 on OS X Server. We currently run Mac OS X 10.1.4 Server, running FMP Server 5.5v2. Today I used the Remote Administration X from FMP 6v2 under OS 10.2.3 from my PowerBook to close 25 files, and then I copied them locally to back them up. Low and behold the largest file had corrupted, and took over and hour to recover. This is really bad, and means I have to go back to OS 9 on the server until someone fixes it. Has anyone had this problem, and cured it by going to Mac OS X Server v10.2? As an Apple dealer we could upgrade, but only if it is going to help. I would…

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paulage77

January 9, 200322 yr

Dear All, I would like to know that if I have to Filemaker server each is different location. Let 's say ..Location 1 and location 2 . From location 1, I can have access to physical files of location 2 . To be careful enough to work , I want to stop Filemaker server of location 2, it means stop service. How do I do that? ... and also If I want to link file using host button of location 2 ...how do i do that? ...I don't want to link by physical files Thanks

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Anatoli

January 9, 200322 yr

[color:"green"] I'm pretty new to all of this. I just was cruising ebay and found Filemaker Pro Server 3.0 for Windows NT there. Is it better to buy that one and upgrade it for only $499 or better to buy the $999 one from FileMaker?

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Kurt Knippel

January 8, 200323 yr

I wonder what the "network kb" in the usage of the remote admin means. I use the server speed statistics from anatolifrom one of his earlier posts as my reference. The only thing which is poor in my statistics is the "network kb" (around 300). What does this mean? Does this depend on the hardware - the design of the files or simply the amount of data you send over the network (the more you send, the higher the number of network kb?) Another speed problem is finding results over calculations. Sometimes it's not possible to use indexed,stored calculations. (ex. total of invoice). Does anyone has suggestions ?

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Anatoli

January 8, 200323 yr

Dear All, I just reinstall Filemaker Server and create a directory in that directory. So I want to see host files ...but can not see it as before ... I did not see local host ...So do I have to go tyo specify host ...and enter DNS name or IP address? Do you guys have any ideas why? or do I have to reboot server??? I do need to run files on server Thanks

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Guest

January 7, 200323 yr

hi, a client needs access to a database using an OSX and a Windows Box. Can (s)he connect to the host DB (on OS9) without any hassle? Will the name pop-up in the hostlist and will she be able to use the db? I wish i could test this myself... but i can't... Thanks in advance JP

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balooka

January 4, 200323 yr

hello, have recently installed FMserver 5.5 trying to use backup function but error generated in event viewer - process aborted [network_pathname] could not be found I am able to open the [network_pathname] no problem though.... any ideas/suggestions? thanks mAx

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2simple

January 3, 200323 yr

Hey all! I recently set up FM Server 5.5 on Windows 2000 server to BU to a partitioned drive. I get an error message from server stating that server was unable to find the folder to BU. I changed to a folder on the same directory as FM server and had the same problem. Any of you awsome experts have any ideas what might be the problem? Dr. Ken

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Will

January 3, 200323 yr

I just installed FM Server 5.0 in a W2000 Server. I also relocated an existing Mac Running the same server serial number. Once I corrected for the duplicate licenses running (or not running), I discovered that the Remote Admin was giving that error. All other servers running OK. Replaced Remote Admin on both machines, nothing. Any ideas?

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dvalley

January 3, 200323 yr

Has anyone run into this? A reboot of a server from a system bugcheck. I am using W2K server for my FM server (FM server 5.5--dedicated), W2K Pro from my side and using FM Developer with the server plug in for admin. All service packs and patches are up to date, new network card. This has just recently strated to occur. MS knowledge base does not cover the error code the W2K Server is generating. Seems to mostly occur when scolling through the files in admin. Also the Cat5 lines are running through a hub, before hitting the server. Any suggests or toughts?? Thx

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Anatoli

January 3, 200323 yr

I have read the instructions, but I am confused on how to serve an app create in FileMaker developer. Usually runtime apps do not need to have a copy of filemaker to run... what about if the app is served by FileMaker server...any help or resources on this? thanks c

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Anatoli

December 28, 200223 yr

I administer FM DBs from a Mac server 3.0. We are considerably behind times with users running 3.0 or 4.0 on a mixture of Macs and PCs. We will install FM 6.0 in January. Can I expect everything to change over smoothly? Maxwell Morlay

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jasonwood

December 26, 200223 yr

Hey there. I have server 5 on NT4 and everytime a automatic backup runs quite a few users get disconnected/lose their connection from the server and the have to re-open the databases.... Anyone know what could be going on here? This happens not only on NT4 workstation clients but also, win2k or XP. Regards, Akart

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dkemme

December 23, 200223 yr

Hello, I am in the process of switching to OSX with FM server 5.5 and see that it does not support Apple Events. My problem is that I do not backup to a tape drive I back up to a mounted volume and that volume is backed up (not by me). So all I do is run a script that mounts my volume and then backup everything to that volume. Does anyone know of a way to schedule an apple event in OSX or is there another piece of software that I can use to schedule a volume to be mounted? Thanks for any help. Brian

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Guest

December 20, 200223 yr

Hi-Just upgraded to OS-X and Server 5.5. Does anyone know where the admin info for who is logged on using what files went to? It used to be on our OS 9 version of server but we can't seem to find it on the OS-X. Thanks! :confused:

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LiveOak

December 15, 200223 yr

How can I make files available via FM Server as relationship files, but hide them from the user when they click File, Open, Hosts? Thanks!

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Vaughan

December 11, 200223 yr

I have a Filemaker 5.5 Server running on OSX 10.2.1. When I try to access a database using a Windows(XP or 2000) client it can take up to 10 seconds to prompt for a password. But If try it from a mac client (9 or OSX) it is immediate. Also, if I try to access a linked field from a windows machine, it takes up to 7 seconds for the list box to appear. But from a mac it is immediate. Any ideas why the windows client would be slower? Thanks, Joel

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Anatoli

December 10, 200223 yr

Just working with a customer who has already got all her clients in the Mac OS Address Book app - and now it looks like the same work again putting them into my FM Address Book. Anybody got a neat way of interfacing between the two? Anything better than Copy&Paste would be highly appreciated...

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Ocean West

December 9, 200223 yr

Lately, I've decided to create runtime solutions for os x. So, I switched to os x and created new runtime solutions. I used solutions that were running under os 9.2. At the end of the process, everything worked fine. However when I launch a solution under 9.2, a message tells me to switch for 10.1. The only way I found to launch a solution is by launching FileMaker Pro itself instead of double-clicking the solution's icon. I find that very annoying. Is there any way to overcome that problem. Biky

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Bikeman17

December 6, 200223 yr

Does anyone know how to start OS X Server via the command line? I thought I saw a post on here a while back, I believe it was taken from the linux startup instructions, but i can't seem to find it. My goal is to run OS X and FM Server without the AQUA GUI, as it eats lots of CPU cycles and is never used.

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Anatoli

November 28, 200223 yr

How can I find out, if a database is opened by the server or directly from my disc (except at the startup moment). Because I keep a copy of the databases on my computer, sometimes there is an opening confusion and a local database is opened instead of the related from the server.

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Vaughan

November 28, 200223 yr

I was just wondering how often I should reboot the FM Server. Anybody know? Thanx.

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dkemme

November 27, 200223 yr

Dear All, I just installed the Filemaker server ...evverything works well ..but the Remote Administration Server plug-in is not installed ...which is I could not click "open file" button or "close file" button ...but it finds the files on the host ...I did installed remote Administration server plug-in but it does seem to work ..I did retry to install everything but still that plug-in is not installed ... Do you guys have any idea why the problem comes from? The filemaker server CD is all fine ... Thanks

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Anatoli

November 26, 200223 yr

I have a client with two locations needing to host several FileMaker data bases via the internet. He has a Mac LAN w/ a new Mac Server with FileMaker Server 5.5. The remote site also has a Mac an a DSL line. Is there a straight forward way to hook up a mac only system (Mac server, workstation and remote stations) into a Mac WAN? I already know about Terminal Server, Citrix and Timbukui, but I was hoping someone had experience with a Mac to Mac WAN that works.

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Anatoli

November 22, 200223 yr

I have a problem that's driving me nuts! I created a database solution consisting of around 10 files. I do have a blank database (!MainForm.fp5) whose purpose is to link to the other files through scripts. Everything seems to work fine if I open the database as single user using regular FMP. As I click on the various buttons, the proper files appear and minimize as expected, along with appropriate access for different passwords. If I set the files to multi-user (Only the !MainForm file is visible, the rest are hidden.) and open them using regular FMP, they still work fine. If I set the files to multi-user (Only the !MainForm file is visible, the rest a…

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djgogi

November 21, 200223 yr

Maybe a stupid question but...when i use filemaker server and i have some local files...do the local files to be shared to? thnx allready! jeff

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jeffer

November 19, 200223 yr

Hi to all, We are currently running a FMP database on a PC network in our main office. Other branches connect to our database using Microsoft Terminal Service because it is quite a bit faster than connecting directly to our FMP Server. We are now considering switching to Mac -) So my question is : Is there an equivalent to Terminal Service for the mac ? (I asked Apple but they didn't seem to know !) If not, what is the fastest way to connect to a remote database trough the Internet ? (using Mac OS X) Than you very much for your help

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Anatoli

November 17, 200223 yr

Hi-Just upgraded to OS-X and Server 5.5. Does anyone know where the admin info for who is logged on using what files went to? It used to be on our OS 9 version of server but we can't seem to find it on the OS-X. Thanks!

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vingo

November 15, 200223 yr

One of our users is sporatically getting booted from the FileMaker server. In the event log it shows up as a normal disconnection, like he just logged out. He gets a script error and exit of error code 2 I believe. Although I'm not 100% positive that is the error number and am waiting for a failing case to verify. Ideas anyone? Please help!

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paulage77

November 15, 200223 yr

We are using a database application developed by another company. After doing some comparison between multi-user with FileMaker Pro Server 5.5 and single-user directly on a client machine, I am convinced that I must have the server set up improperly because of the huge speed differences (I use other databases where the server version is quite quick). Normally we run the FMP Server on a PowerMac G4 QuickSilerver 867Mhz with Mac OS 10.1.5. After having this system up for some time I discovered some server disk damage and bad RAM, and have blamed that and some other issues for poor network performance. This morning I booted up the same machine under Mac OS 9.22, install…

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pchernoff

November 14, 200223 yr

I have a Server with Mac OS 9 using FM Server5 and a Client with MacOSX using FM Pro 5.5. How do I control the server from my client computer ? Do I need a plug in ?

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jeffer

November 14, 200223 yr

I am hosting several multi-users files on a G4 Mac with Filemaker Server 5.5. Two clients running Mac OSX 10.2 are occasionally unable to open any of these files because of "An error of type 6". Can anyone tell me what this means? It only happens every now and then. It never happens on a coupld other Macs running OSX 10.2 and never happens on a Windows Xp Pro. machine. Also, is there a complete list of what all error codes mean? Thanks in advance!

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vanderark1

November 14, 200223 yr

Hello everyone, hopefully someone can help me with my dilemma. I'm not the most versed with Mac's! I am working with FileMaker Server 5.5 on a G3 and FileMaker 5.5 clients on iMac machines. We have a small network (3 stations) connected with a LinkSys router and switch. Everything is running OS 9.something. Everything works fine using Appletalk, but I wanted to switch to TCP/IP so I could use filemaker on the windows machines on the network (but have not even installed FM on them yet). Now nothing shows up on my list of files when I click "Hosts" even if I enter the IP address and everything. Any ideas what I should try? Could it be an issue with the r…

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Vaughan

November 12, 200223 yr

FMP and FMS performance seems to vary wildly... and tuning seems to be fairly imprecise and hit/miss... and the primary performance drivers seem to mostly be a mystery. Sooooo.... I am thinking of developing a set of benchmarks that will allow me to figure some of this out emperically. And it should allow us in this forum to run it on a wide variety of systems and setups and be able to compare performance and the impact of hardware. To support that, I'd like to use this thread for brainstorming what ought to be in this set of benchmarks, how benchmarks should be crafted, how results should be reported, and what are the key variables that should be testable. …

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aklodner

November 11, 200223 yr

is there a way to check if the currently running copy of a file is accessed via network vs. locally?

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Vaughan

November 10, 200223 yr

Hi, Our office is located in NY, and we need two other offices to have remote access to our database (one is in Hong Kong and the other one in Maryland). We use Mac's and they use PCs. Our databases are hosted by a FileMaker Server (TCP/IP). My question is: would it be quicker for them to access our databases through our FileMaker server by using a FMP license, or through the web browser (web companion) over the Internet? Thanks in advance.

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Anatoli

November 9, 200223 yr

Dear All, I set up decimal point as point (.) before put the file on the host ...but after I put the file on the host ...ans the file is a portal of other file ...and it only accept decimal as comma (,) ...somebody has an idea about it? I have run through this problems but still can not find out the reason. Thanks

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Anatoli

November 8, 200223 yr

I'm new to the whole FM thing, but I've been building software using Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL for several years now (Java and Web frontends). I've been developing a replacement invoicing app for a company I've purchased, building it relationally. My customers/invoicing app has 9 files, only ~900 customers, and currently no invoices. When I build and use the files off my local machine (G4-400/256MB), customer list sorts on name (character, indexed) and number (number, indexed) perform as expected (read: very quickly). When I move them to be hosted on the FM Server (G4-400/256MB) running FM Server 5 and Retrospect Server (it's the only place I can run i…

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Anatoli

November 7, 200223 yr

Dear all, Why could I just open one folder on the host? ..is there a case we can chose two folders or more and open that on the host. In my case, I chose only one folder only. When we put many files on the host ...we have to use a dialog-host the the time for value list ..relationship ...script? Is that correct with my understanding about host? We don't link physically but we link through dialog-host? Thanks

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Vaughan

November 7, 200223 yr

Can one make changes to, say, field definitions in a file that is being hosted on FM Server version while others are using the file?? Thanks in advance Regards, Chris

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Kurt Knippel

November 5, 200223 yr

CAn we just creat two buttons ...one for open many files onto the host and one to close many files from the host ... Since two many files, this is the pain when click manually each files Do you have any ideas how to do that? Thanks

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LiveOak

November 4, 200223 yr

I have a report which sould be run off on the last day of a month (I forgot!!). Now it is November, fields have recalculated, and I can't run the October report off. Is it possible / advisable to change the date on FM Server back to 31/10/2002, and if so would I also need to change the date on the relevant workstation?

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kennedy

November 1, 200223 yr

We are testing a newly set up a Filemaker server running v.5. When I remote access the files there appears to be no problem, all available files appear in the administration window. If I then close a file using remote administration, it disappears from the folder (as it should) and is then visible in the window which appears when the Open File button is clicked but if I select the file and click ok I get an error message saying the file cannot be opened. If Server is restarted the file is open again. Any suggestions as to what the problem may be? Peter

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Peter H

November 1, 200223 yr

Does anyone have a method of putting simulated, "worst case scenario" load on the FMP Server? We are currently planning on increasing the users from 20 to 120 in the next few months. We would like to try to simulate this if possible so we can see if any change in performance will occur. (both by user perspective, and server resources). We are using Windows NT Server 4.0 with FMP Server 5.0. I believe the server is quite adequate: Hardware Model = Compaq Proliant 1850R Processor(s) = (2) Intel Pentium II Ram = 200 MB Hard disk(s) = (3) 4.3 MB Physical Disk Disk Controllers - RAID config = Hardware RAID 5 NIC Model(s) = Compaq Netelligent 10/100 T…

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DykstrL

October 30, 200223 yr

I have a situation where I am accessing/managing an FMPro 5.5 solution remotely. The Solution is on a Win2K Pro box running FM Pro Server 5.5 behind a Cisco Pix Firewall. I can acces the files, and add/remove data but when I go into Layout Mode and change something and go back to browse mode the communicatiuon is lost. It also happens if I add a field. Is complete remote administartion possible with Win2K Pro or does it absolutley need Win2K Server.

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Anatoli

October 29, 200223 yr

When installing FileMaker Server 5.5 this error message appears - "The configuration data for this product is corrupt. Contact your support personnel." Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to get FM Server5.5 installed on W2k server ?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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liltekiam

October 26, 200223 yr

I've been struggling with a solution which I'm building. It has a Main File which sort of acts like a Main Menu, and many secondary files which get called through scripted buttons. It was working great as I built it, but now that I'm ready to test it out on an FMP Server, it is giving me much grief. First, the scripts which call other files seem to be looking locally on the client's machine. So I re-scripted almost all of the links I could find to open a specific (Hosted) file where I hard wired the IP it should look for to open the hosted file. This made me quite nervous, in that my iMac running the Server gets its IP Dynamically. However, I figured I'd sort out tha…

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Anatoli

October 25, 200223 yr

Hi everyone, I wonder if a win 2000 prof. (not 2000 server) machine (2ghz - good hd - 512ram) is good enough to run fm server for 25 users. Although fm says that win pro is good for 10 users, I understand that Mr. Anatoli has a better performance with a win pro version. Am I right or better start with win2k server greetings

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Anatoli

October 22, 200223 yr

We're running FileMaker Server on a Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.2.1 ("Jaguar"). I can't start the FileMaker Server using the Config.app-Application! When I click "Start Server", nothing happens. I then wrote a Startup Items, so that FMS starts automatically on reboot. Doing like this, it works - I can connect with clients to the server, but when I start Config.app, it tells me the server is *not* running!!?! Backups get done, but the remote administration always reports "wrong password", even when I type it in correctly! It seems rather strange to me. Has anyone else a similar experience? Or does it work for others in this same configuration? Any help is wel…

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cello

October 20, 200223 yr

I have Filemaker 5.5 v1 Server running on OS X Server (10.1.5) on a PowerMac G4 800Mhz Dual Processor 512MB for a small 4 file contact inventory database. The 5 clients are using Filemaker Pro 5.5 on PowerMac G4 machines running Mac OS 9.2.2. Does anyone have problems with this configuration or any issues with running Filemaker Server 5.5 on Mac OS X (10.1.5). I checked with Apple and Filemaker and they assured me that there are people running this configuration but it has not been certified. Please let me know if anyone has a personal experience.

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kennedy

October 19, 200223 yr

More FMS 5 woes. We run 5 Mac servers (OS 9.1) on cross platform 100 base T network. One server (G4 400MHz/128mb) FileMaker quit unexpecedly last week damaging some large files (40 to 112 mb). Did recovery, clone, import (the works). (even replaced the software) Now some PCs lose connection to server (no Macs). Host window cannot locate, but can ping server. Service will come back on eventually, then drop again. Sometimes one file, sometimes the whole server. All others users are normal. At wits end. Server set to 80 clients (40 active today) , Files 100 w/ 82 open. HELP!

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Anatoli

October 18, 200223 yr

I have remote users accessing a database on our server from home. She claims that if her connection to the server is unexpectedly broken (even though the server is still running fine) she loses the data that she typed in during the session. My understanding is that the server caches everything and permanently writes cached data to file whenever the system is idle or when the system reaches the cache flush limit (which in this case is 15 minutes). So only a server crash would cause the loss of data... not an unexpected loss of connection to the server. Can anyone confirm or deny this assessment? Thanks, Tony Andrews

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Kurt Knippel

October 17, 200223 yr

We are attempting to get a working online bookstore. We just tried to upgrade to FM server 5.5 on a Win2000 machine. The web companion is on an imac. After upgrading to 5.5 server, the web companion shut down about every hour. So we downgraded to server 5.0. The web companion shuts down once a day at random times. What is happening? Note: The win2000 server is a 200MHz machine that also runs IIS to serve up a folder of PDFs accessed by the bookstore.

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tdorff

October 16, 200223 yr

We just updated our 5.0 FMserver to 5.5 server hoping that it could be more stable than 5.0 The FMserver ran bout 9 our and crahed... There were error message like this: The application, fmserver.exe, generated an application error The error occurred on 10/02/2002 @ 18:29:42.156 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 01CBA209 (<nosymbols>) Any ideas what this error message mean about?

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timolous

October 16, 200223 yr

I am currently running Filemaker server on a Windows NT server. I want make a switch and serve my databases on a 500 Mhz Mac G4 with 800 MB Ram. I am running Filemaker server on OS X but in the classic environment. I have had the same problems running FM on OS 9 on a G3 with a lot of ram etc

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Kurt Knippel

October 16, 200223 yr

Hi again, Is there a way to copy or duplicate user priviledges from one file to another in FMS 5.0? There has to be, but I don't recall how to get to it:) Thanks much

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Anatoli

October 15, 200223 yr

this may seem like a dumb question if i bought filemaker server (linux) and had it running on a computer... would i still need another computer to open the files and be the host and have computers log onto host computer or is the filemaker server computer the host computer and all single filemaker computers can log onto filemaker server via hosts and edit, delete, create records. also..is it impossible to use server computer also as a file server...will it be able to multi-task the filemaker records as well as allowing someone to open a word document on the same drive as filemaker? thanks mallikai

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Anatoli

October 13, 200223 yr

Hey, There have been many articles written on optimizing FMServer on OS9. They have been a big help. But now I find myself installing FMServer on some nice shiney OSX boxes. What can I do to optimize? Specifically, Is there a way (or a need) to keep Server in the foreground, like in 9? Would it be worth my time to 'renice' server? that is increase the priority? TIA Jerry

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JerrySalem

September 30, 200223 yr

I have a solution that is served on a PC that has an age feature. Everyone is no longer aging. Ponce might appreciate dilemma; I think FM has aged me at an increased rate. I also use a pop up field with today's date that uses the "Today" calculation. Each morning it should calculate today's date; this too has discontinued. Does anyone know how to help me get out of Florida; my birth date is coming up and I'd like to be able to celebrate it. Thanks, donny

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CobaltSky

September 29, 200223 yr

Dear All, I would like to back-up a file , let's say 17:00 everyday, since that file is on the host. I use to go to Remote administration then close the file from host ...then make a copy of it ..then put it back that file on the host. IS there a way to make a back-up of a file automatic everyday and it give a different name? Thanks

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Kurt Knippel

September 27, 200223 yr

I would like to know how to Administrate filemaker server 5 , on filemaker client (using filemaker 6 on the client machine) ? On the server machine I have Mac OS 10 , Filemaker server 5 and filemaker 5.5 . Luiza

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aesart

September 26, 200223 yr

User "Username" [192.168.128.35] forced to close connection. Why is this in log? Why the user was disconnected?

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Kurt Knippel

September 25, 200223 yr

Hi, i;ve successfully installed FMP Server 5.5 on our Linux server but I'm getting a error mesage when I try to start it. It says: Error opening log file: Permission denied Now, I've gone and made sure the privs on /var/log/fmserver are ok and the directory is writable. Since there is no log file in there to start with I created Events.log via touch and set the ownership and privs correctly but still the same problem. I've also gone and commented out the log directory variable in the fmserver.conf file to see if I could turn off loggin. Still no go. Finally I've removed FMP Server and reinstalled and still get the same problem... I'm at a loss here to figure out the p…

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sgoing

September 25, 200223 yr

Hi !, I have several databases running from Fm server 5.5 (PC, win 2000 pro). One particularly is missing records (invoices), I though they accidentally were deleting records, so I eliminate the privilege of deleting records to all passwords (except the master which they dont' have), once again one invoice is missing (I can see the gap in the RecordID), just last week the record was shown in one report, now that the same report is generated the invoice is missing. any clues? The clients are FM 5.5 for PC, over TCP/IP

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BruceJ

September 25, 200223 yr

Hello, I am in the process of converting my company over to OS X and have installed FM Server for OS X and it seems to be running great (it sure does look different - but it's the running that matters). My boss is a technology junkie and wants to jump into running FM Server on OS X Server. I have read in this forum the good, the bad and the ugly - but haven't seen any overwhelming evidence to jump or not to jump... does anyone have any suggestions.... should I jump? thanks

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kennedy

September 25, 200223 yr

We are going to be consolidating 3 FMservers that we have into 1 server with multiple processors. We need to know if there is a way for us to get around the 100 open file limit that FMServer has. Can we install multiple instances of FMServer and therefore get 200 or more file limit? Has anyone done anything similar to this and have some advice that they can give? I would appreciate any info that you can offer. Thanks, John

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Anatoli

September 24, 200223 yr

Dear All I would liek to know why I put more than 13 files on the host I have an error message ...So I close one file ...it should be 12 files ..then I open one file on host ..it should be 13 ..then one more time I put one more file on host ...it gives me an error message ... Someone knows how? thankssssss

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Anatoli

September 23, 200223 yr

If someone who has upgraded from version 5.0 to 5.5 could answer a few questions for us - we are about to upgrade 10 FM Servers: 1. When upgrading on W2K, does 5.5 server install upgrade the 5.0 install, or does it install separate? 2. What about upgrading a Mac FM server? 3. Are there any "gotchas" concerning the upgrade for either platforms? Thanx

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Kurt Knippel

September 18, 200223 yr

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ssfire

September 18, 200223 yr

I have a database hosted by FM Server 5.5 for which I set certain fields as read-only for particular passwords. However, when hosted through FM Server 5.5, users can edit these fields. Any ideas why this happens.

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LiveOak

September 18, 200223 yr

Hi, we're using server 5 on a W2000 server with about a dozen files served to 25 users in a standard Windows domain. We've been running it a couple of months with no problems. Access from a 5.5 client is as usual through the File/Open Remote/Hosts dialogue, and the server was up until now always visible as a local host when in the same domain (subnet). Yesterday the server was no longer listed as a local host. I am able however to connect using the "Specify server" option, and directly typing the IP address. I can furthermore make the server become visible again as a local host by restarting the service on the server; but after doing this twice it again di…

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jmkimmel

September 12, 200223 yr

Dear All, I would like to know since we have a filemaker server for 10 seats. The speed is slow down and we don't really know why? ...Is it that we install badly ? or we share the files incorrectly. IS there a trick that we can speed up when open files. We put all the files in filemaker server ( on one machine), and we share all the files on that filemaker server. Is it the correct way to share files? I am really in need of this question. Thanks

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Kurt Knippel

September 12, 200223 yr

i'm running a multi-user solution with filemaker 5.5 mac os x, windows xp, windows nt (total of 5 office computers) Currently my computer, windows xp, is being used as host... there is one computer that is basically used as a remote computer so that employees who work out of the office, can log in from home to enter data and retrieve info... However, it has become a burden to my computer because now that the database has grown to include thousands of record per file and an image database, my computer is locking up... so...I would like to know if fmpro server is a good investment and if I got linux server...i was thinking of turning one of our computers…

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Anatoli

September 6, 200223 yr

Is it necessary to have FMP unlimited in order to access over the Web databases that are hosted on a FM Server?

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Keith M. Davie

September 6, 200223 yr

Hello all. I must say I wish I were back in my cozy CDML world. Server is killing me. The solutions are being hosted on 2 G4s, each running os x server, 1 running server 5.5, one running FMU 5.5. Problem is, when you boot up FM server 5.5., it automatically stops within a couple of seconds. As well, it doesn't open up any DBs. We have disabled everything we can possibly think of on the FM Server, to no avail. Any suggestions? FM people are being stinky b/c they "don't support" installing FM Server on os x server. me

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Anatoli

September 1, 200223 yr

I am planning to buy FileMaker Server, but I runned a trial version and crashed at least twice a day. (error message: unrecoverable error (10)) I was told that this is a memory issue, and if I installed Mac Os X this wouldn't happen. (I am quite reluctant to install OS X, but I can't afford crashing, not even once a day) My question therefore is if I should install Mac Os X and go for the OS X FileMaker Server version (the computer that would host the databases is a G3, and the machines that would access the FM server are most of them G4, with Mac Os 9.2), or otherwise the problem above could easily be solved and continue with OS 9. Thanks

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alopas

August 29, 200223 yr

We're using FM Server on Win2K but when I'm running long scripts other PCs on the network are hanging - Any ideas on how to resolve this problem. Thanks Nick

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Kurt Knippel

August 29, 200223 yr

Yesterday all FM files where shut down for routine weekly maintenance like Recovery and backup. Apart of that FM Server is doing automatic backup several times a day. After I started the FM Server Service on W2000 Server, FM server 5 didn&#8217;t open all files -- from the same directory. Directory is 1 level down from FM server directory. Does anybody experience the same problem? We tried starting files manually from remote FM server management and server didn&#8217;t open them again. We open those Recovered files in FileMaker client without any problems and then we tried to open them again through remote management and it worked. My resume is…

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CyberSport

August 13, 200223 yr

I tried using FM Server 5.5 on OS X a few months ago and had all my databases corrupted. Anyone else experience this? Anyone out there using OS X and using FM Server 5.5 with no problems? Any tricks?

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dkemme

August 12, 200223 yr