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I've had problems installing a 4.0 runtime version on XP. Anybody else having this problem? thanks nati

I have a major problem with some of my files 'jamming' after data is entered or simple scripts are run. I get the hourglass for anything up to 20 seconds. Everything in the system works, but with these delays on a couple of the files (out of 17). I think it may be down to the kak virus that I thought I had got rid of. The same problem exists with the same files when transfered (via Zip disc) to other machines. Any help greatly appreciated. Andrew Bruno

I am proving FM on Windows XP, and it seems that everything works well, and when finishing mark the following error: DDE Server window: Filemaker Pro.exe - error application. Does some update exist for XP?.

I recently moved FMServer v5.02 from an old NT 4.0 server box to a new Windows 2000 server. When I run FMpro v5.03 on the server console it maxes out the CPU and the performane is unacceptable...The reason why i need to get this working is because of remote users that need to connect to the server via pcanywhere.... Thanx in advance! Blair

I am hosting a set of databases via FileMaker 5 on a Win2000 box. The databases are set up to share via TCP/IP. Sharing works great when I log into the computer with my Admin password. However, this server is also used as a workstation by technicians in my lab, and they log in with their own non-Admin passwords. When the technicians are logged in, the FileMaker databases do not appear to other clients on our network. I set Win2000 security permissions for the database directory to "full control" for all users, but this did not solve the problem. Any suggestions? Thanks, Scott Sillett

I am trying to pull information from multiple normalized FMP databases and use this data in Crystal Reports so that I can look at the data multiple ways without a big hassle. Sounds great on paper. In practice it is giving me multiple errors depending on various settings that I have tried. Is anyone familiar with this that could point out some possible pitfalls?

So is the 10 file limit going to keep me from networking a peer to peer database system that consists of 13 files? This would really cause me some problems.

Anybody using a freeware or shareware PDF writer for Windows? Trying to find a solution to the scaling bug in XP that forgets print percentage in scripts.

I'm trying to establish an ODBC Data Source in Windows 98 and have been unsuccessful. I can add a FileMaker Pro driver to the ODBC Data Source list, but I don't get an option to select the database that will utilize the source when I add the Data Source. When I add an Access driver to the ODBC Data Source list, I get an option to select a database. Am I missing something? Thanks for any help you can give me.

Hello, I know nothing about Access, but I don't have to, someone else does. What I need to determine is how, if possible, to share info with Access. My client has, and would like to keep, basic info/bookkeeping info in Access. The graphics dept uses Macs to produce ads. We are going to use FMP to manage the ads crossplatform (no big deal). The question is: can I have a direct link to the client info in Access? I would like to avoid the export/import routine.

I pubblished on the web 10 filemaker DB hosted on a Windows 2000 server with FileMaker unlimited (not the server). Randomly fileMaker quits without any error messages. Someone knows of any problem with Win 2000 server?null

Check the connectivity forum. This has been covered in detail there.

My configuration is : wmp4.1v3 on windows 95 clients with Novell client3.3sp2 on a NW5.1 server. Sometimes files on the server volumes are pretty much unusable unless copied to the hard drive of the local machine. This is a performance issue not seen on any other of dozens of applications run in this environment. What could be going on?

Hi, I've installed my application on a FM server (Windows NT) server . Now everything is so slow!!! Even more weird, the first time you start the application it's fast, if you shut it down and start over again it takes minutes and minutes to find the other files. What am I doing wrong??? Links are fine and it works great on my little network. Please help. (This is a duplicate of a post to the FileMaker Server forum. We don't allow duplicate posts, so I'm closing this thread. Please answer to that forum. -bd) [ September 10, 2001: Message edited by: LiveOak ]

If you're not networked, how can you exchange information? Floppy disks...

Has anybody successfully register filemaker server with their active directory DB. I opened an incident with FM and they could not tell me how to do it. I am running a Win2000 server hosting FM and a win2000 authentication server. Thanks for any help Paul

Hello! I need to publish runtime solution from Mac to Windows. I have FileMaker 5 Developer, but I do not understand what .DLL I must to put into the folder with my solution. I need to buy some else? Thank you in advance. Silvia

Hi, I set up fields through which local files can be activated with the contextual menue (FM4). Although it works fine on Macs, my colleague cannot activate files (located on his own disk) the same way on his PC (Win 95). Strangely enough, when the PC file path entered in FM is copied in a Word document, files can be accessed from Word on the PC. The url.dll file is present. in general, is there a way to have files accessible from both PC and Macs despite the fact that file paths are written differently in the two platforms ? (whithout making a web server). Any solution ? What is missing ? Thanks for any advice.

Has anybody some experiences about powerful configuration on IIS-Server + Web Server Connector to work together with FileMaker Server on an other computer? Network-Card, Multiprocessor, Memory etc… I have experiences about serving FMPro Unlimited and FileMakerServer on one Machine. It works fine and fast if you use NT 4.0. Win 2000 is a bad choice. It sloes the system down extremely.

For those of you interested in having a searchable list of Windows 2000 Group Policies and their respective location, I have created a Filemaker file with this information. There are 555 records with the following format: Location: Local Computer Policy; Computer Config; Windows Settings; Security Settings; Account Policies; Password Policy Policy: Enforce password history This can be a time saver if you have ever wanted to apply a policy but don't know exactly where it is in the heiarchical tree of group policies. Available in fp3, fp5, or PDB for Palm HanDBase formats. *NOTE Some of the values in the field "Location" get chopped off of the PDB format due to the l…

Fmpro 5, Win98. Problem: Windows98 resizes FMPro file windows to a letterbox size/shape. After maximizing just one file window, clicking the 'restore' button on the Win98 Title bar resets all open FMPro file windows to the letter box shape/size and cascades them on the screen. Why is this and how is it corrected? Of course, I want to be able to restore the window after maximizing to fit the layout and to affect only the current file. Thanks Ed

My problem is that I have just acquired FM and in my company we have MAC and PC, and I would thank them if you can guide me (FAQ) of as connecting PC/MAC or MAC/PC to across of TCP/IP ambient client-server and if one can in windows/98/ME or only in WIN/2000.

I have a sign shop program written by a third party that uses FM5. It takes an awfully long time for it to load and the creator has no clue why. I have a 400mz system with 128 mb of ram, a 6.3 gb hard drive with plenty of free space. Any suggestions as to why it might take so long to load?

I have a field that is formatted to have a rather long selection of items in a popup menu, that previously expanded to a couple of columns when clicking on the menu. After the upgrade to Windows 2000, the menu is one loooonnnnng column that requires scrolling. You can't see which of the items are selected without scrolling all the way down. I assume this is a Windows option, and I'm wondering if anyone knows a place to change the option... Please email me directly as I don't often visit this forum. Thanks! [email protected]

I am new to Filemaker so excuse me if this is a dumb question. At our church we have moved a FM database from a users workstation to a SBS4.5 (NT4.0) server so that it will get backed up to tape each night. The problem is that as long as the data resides on the server and is openned from a workstation, it will only open as a read-only database. If I move it back to the workstation it opens just fine. The database was placed in a folder on the server that is shared with full rights to the users that need to access the data. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Chris [email protected]

Previews of printing layouts do not correspond to actual printouts. This problem has plagued me for many moons. Any ideas? Fixes?null

I am having several problems: Info: Database shared on a Novell 3.12 server, PC’s on Windows 95/98. 1. Why is it that I have different number of record of the same database on different PC’s? Why is it that when a client captures or updates a record the information is not available to the other PC’s but yet on the PC that created the record the information is there? 2. Why is it that we have to recover the database all the time?? 3. Our last problem was that we had on the database over 340 records and between the morning and this afternoon we are mysteriously down to 240...:? Any help will be appreciated...!!

Help! Does anybody know why I can no longer open my files? I'm a Mac user but use my corporate-issue Dell to serve about 22 FM databases (and do nothing else that requires human interfacing!). About a week ago I started running into a problem where the first files to open would do so quickly, but then FM would report an error when it seemed to reach some limit. The error declares something like "the temporary file can not be created, the disk is full". The disk is only 2 of 6 Gb full. Checking the "About FM", it says that 63.5 of my 64 Mb of RAM are used, which strikes me as a problem. Here are some other details that might help: Windows 98 version 4.10 FM Pro …

I have a database that always opens with text somewhat garbled, some of it missing. When I click on the zoom box or hit F3 the database crashes. The weird thing is that immediately afterwards, it opens properly. This happens consistently. The same database opens on Mac without incident, so it seems to be a Windows problem (Win 98). Any clues?

I need to find if files can be shared between Filemaker pro and MS Project. Filemaker currently has the Database info on it, but I need to start running schedules and projects using MS Project. Ihave had this hint below, but don't know much about the two Applications...can anybody help? TIP I RECEIVED. Should be - Does MS Project export tab delimited data? Cuz if it does then you just need to have Filemaker look at the file MS Project exports to. Maybe you have to write a little script and/or set up the correct relationship in Filemaker but it should be do-able. QUESTION I ASKED... Is it possible to link MS Project and Filemaker Pro. If I created a schedule in M…

I have (chuckle) programmed a game with Filemaker, originally on the Mac. Part of the deal is that some Quicktime movies and sound fx are reside in global container fields which are then loaded into an 'action' container field with a script and played. This all works quite well. Now I wanted to put this on a Windows machine. I installed Quicktime for Windows and it didn't work. What is there to know about it? And another thing - the Quicktime movie and sound source files take about 2.5 Mb. The Filemaker file which holds them (and presumably adds some overhead to this) is less than 400 K. Where did all the bytes go? Is Filemaker also an award winning compression tool?

I'm considering developing and distributing a FMP solution I currently use on the Mac platform. The majority of the intended market uses Windows machines and I would like to develope it using FMP so as not to have to reinvent too many wheels. However, primarily being a Mac user, I need to have a better feel for the long term 'robustness' of FMP for Windows. I guess I'm looking for an unbiased assessment of FMP's market status. Before I invest too much time I'm trying to come to terms with the possibility of a worst case scenario such as a succesfully distributed product (and the support implications of that) and the sudden loss of the underlying software engine. …

Some of my Windows users are receiving illegal operations errors when performing operations in files that are doing large calculations. Some of the errors include "Invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL" , "FILEMAKER PRO caused an exception 10H in module MSVCRT.DLL at 0177:7802cd03", and "FILEMAKER PRO caused an invalid page fault in module MFC42.DLL at 0177:5f4012a1". These problems have just began in the last 2-3 months, and no one has made any significant changes to their operating systems. Does anyone have any possible sollutions?

Hi, I get a message saying that 'the webcompanion cannot share files over the web because of a network error (-3)'. I'm trying to configure the webcompanion on a win2000 box (standalone) so that the TCP/IP port is 591 rather than 80. Every time I change it from 80 I get this message. I'm trying to configure Lasso/Dreamweaver/FMP. Why does Win2000 not like this? Harmen

I have installed FMPro 5 on W2000 and it does not run. An hour glass comes up and program appears to be starting but then nothing. In Task Manager program is running as a process. In Safe Mode program will run. Anyone know of any possible issues. I have tried with LAN card disabled and with basic VGA monitor driver as both these have been suggested as possible problems. Thanks for any help

I hope somebody out there can offer some insight on the problems I'm encountering. I recently bought a new computer with Windows ME, and I'm running into all sorts of formating questions with my FM databases. I'm working with three solutions that were all created using a Macintosh. When I opened them in Windows 98, the only problem with the layout formats was that everything was significantly bigger than it was on the Mac, which would require the user to toggle across and down the screen to view the entire layout. Adjusting the monitor resolution didn't solve the problem, and neither did the zoom feature. So, I modified my layouts so that they were an appropriate si…

Tying to connect a couple of computers i a small office. When I try to set a file to multiuser, I get the error saying that it can not be set to multiuser becasue of a network problem, and shows error code (-10) and sometimes (-2). I checked the FN Help file for these error codes, but they weren't there. What do I do? I've got to lauch this project for them by Friday. ------------------ Bruce J Kansas City [email protected]

My office just upgraded to windows 2000 and we are running FM 4. My databases that were running just fine as multi-user before the conversation, now will not allow more than one user, even though the settings still say they are running as multi-user. Any ideas why? The network has not changed.

We are trying to network 2 x PCs' and keep getting error code 10. Can you give us an idea what this means?

I have reciently installed a peer to peer network on two Windows 2000 systems. Now I am sharing my solution on this little network. I have gone through all the steps to share my files correctly (open file, hosts, etc...). Every thing is going great... accept when I proform a script (by hiting a button) that takes me to my Job Schedule which shows me all my jobs for today and the future. The script step is simply a Perform Find. Before writing this script I did the find that I wanted done in this script, which was >=// in the Job Date field. This has been working perfectly for about 7 years now. It still works perfectly on the host machien. The problem is that w…

G'Day viewers ! I had an interesting one from one of our clients. They use FM Pro, and have an Exchange 5.5 server as well. Is it possible to export an FM5 database of user details (phone, email, address) to an Outlook Contacts list? Also, is it possible to somehow "synchronise" this information between a FM Pro Server and an Exchange 5.5 server, or at least be able to automate the transfer of the contacts database between the two ? Thanks in advance ! David

Will someone running the Windows 2000 O/S please send me an e-mail. Have a question about the Directory Structure. I'll walk you through getting the info if you are not familiar with the O/S [email protected] Greatfully Eun Mi

Any one have any ideas/suggestions as to why some Dell optiplex pc's run fm ok but others seem to start fm then nothing happens not even the filemaker intro screen. (Apart from fm showing up in the processes in the task manager). I have installed w2k service pack and am using fmpro 5.0v3 Cheers

Our FMServer 5 is located on a MacIntosh, and our Images are located on a different MacIntosh Server. We are trying to import images off of the MacIntosh Server using the "Import by reference". The problem we are having is after we import several hundred images, the Windows PC no longer sees the directories on the MacIntosh Server. The images that have already been imported are not affected, but we have to literally reboot the MacIntosh server in order for the Windows machine to see the entire directory structure. Has this happened to anyone? If so, what is the cause and how do we fix it? I have a few thousand images to import and this problem is causing severe pr…

I have FM Pro. 5.0 Unlimited. I plan to use this to allow users access to our database via our intranet. Will this verion take advantage of dual processors?

I have a FMP4 Web Shared solution that works perfectly on Macintosh. When moven to a NT box the cookies stop working correctly. Specifically the expire time gets screwed up, resulting in the cookies not being created or being deleted if they already exist. If the expire time is greater than 44639 minutes the problem occurs, independently of browser being used (MSIE, NN, Mac or Win) which suggests to me it's an NT thing. Perhaps a bug in Web Companion? I just moved the solution back to MacOS and it works fine. Any NT ghrus out there know what a fix is? (Other than scrap the NT box.)

My user deleted the shortcut on her Win98 desktop to a file hosted on the Filemaker Pro MAC server. I can't remember how I created the shortcut. The closed I've come is: Target: "C:path to filemaker" ip.ip.ip.ip:filename.fp5 This connects to the host but then can't find the file ":filename.fp5" Can someone tell me the proper syntax? Or, a different way to load the hosted file in one easy step? Thanks, Karra

I've created a solution with 87 layouts. I tried to bind it to a runtime solution, but when I or anyone else tries to open the runtime solution we keep getting the message that the needed file, fmcor10.dll is missing. Checked the solution folder and can see NO DLL icon, but when I do a find folders it says the dll is there. Running FileMaker5 on Windows 98. PLEASE HELP!!!!

I am moving FMP databases from Macintosh to Windows NT4 and what you see on the screen is not always what is printed. Clients are completing a form with text fields approximately 4"x2" using Arial size 10 and letting the data wrap. They are happy with what they see on the screen, but what's printed has wrapped differently bumping words up one line. They are having difficulty editing the comment since they don't know what it will look like when it's printed. They are running FMP 4.1v3 on Windows NT4. If I change the font to Arial 12, the problem disappears but Arial 10 is needed so that all the data will fit on one page. If I change the font to Times New Roman 10, th…

I am developing a FMP 5 solution for an NT environment. I'm having difficulties running DDE commands from FMP. My commands are working but only some of the time. I've been told that it may have something to do with the way that NT apportions application space (i.e. for the sake of system stability it parcels out the space discretely). Is there any way around this? I need to run DDEs and reconfiguring every client's machine is impossible.

We have a database with about 200 layouts. Some of our users have PC's running Windows 98 and the layouts will not display. Does anyone have a workaround for this problem?

We have a NT4.0 server running FMS3.0, latest version, all clients running FMP4.1 latest version on W95/W98 and 1(one) client running NT4.0 client latest version. All print on a Brother HL-1270N networkprinter. Only the NT client has serious problems printing complex layouts. I only get data from a specific field, i.g. trailing grand summary, or the last record in a list. I updated all drivers, checked network and printersettings, copied settings from W98 machines and none of this all changes anything to the situation. Anybody recognising this problem? thanks, Wim

Has anyone experienced Spooling errors in FM 4.1? We are using an HP 2100M when we get these errors

Since installing fm (started with version 3 now on v5.3) several programs do not play nice with it. When running Photoshop all the fonts in fm go bad, also computer clocks go haywire (lose or gain time, 30-40mins day) and constantly have to be reset. Finally if I am using internet and running fm my connection hangs. I thought it was my dial up but it now does it with my DSL conection. It will open msn then go nowhere until i shut down fm and relog the dsl modem. Have had various computer and all have the same same including new Dell. Has anybody had the same problems, got solutions. I was thinking of installing win 2000 on all the desktops to see if that will help somewha…

What is the maximum number of script in a file and how script work with Windows in term of ressources used. tks ------------------ Eric Veilleux www.maerix.com

We have FMServer running on an NT 4.0 box that also runs IIS.40. We recently added a second network card to the machine and have about 14 IPs on the first card. Now we can't network into the FNServer at all! I can open up FMPro on the server and through the host dialog box, and connecting to the local machine see all the dbs, but as soon as I try to connect via the machines primary IP, I get nothing! Our client's getting pissed!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Hi, I get the following error when attempting to install WSC 5 on my machine: FileMaker WSC 5 is already installed. If this message is not true then check the following registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREFileMaker Inc.FileMaker WSC 5 - Netscape Enterprise Remove any keys under this entry for servers which no longer have FileMaker WSC 5 installed. These keys have the form https-<server name> for Enterprise servers. 1) This entry does not exist 2) WSC is not installed 3) This occurs on machines that have never had filemaker or Netscape Enterprise web server installed upon them 4) FileMaker as a company is useless when it comes to tech support (IMHO…

Seems like there are several issues with windows and fm5. I just converted our database to FM5 pro and works fine but prints in HUGE font (from 12 to 24)and is highly irritating. Is there some hidden setting I forget to adjust, or is this a bug (the printer is an older epson dot matrix that works fine with FM3, the FM5 prints fine on the HP 540...whats goin on!)

Have a small 15 PC peer to peer using IPX/SPX to connect clients to database source, mix of Win95 and 98. All work fine except one, I recieve an error when starting FileMaker Pro 4.0 which says unable to load IPX/SPX. When I try and open HOSTS I receive an error code 10091 but I can't find any refernce to that issue. I have checked the Frametype of the NIC and this seems fine, no errors on boot re.IPX etc. PC itself can be seen on network over TCP/IP. Would greatly appreciate any help, Barry

I have just taken over this position and I do not know a lot about Filemaker. There is a Filemaker 4.0 installed on a Windows 98 machine. There is a Novell server. People can see the host when everybody has his Filemaker configured for IPX/SPX. The Novell server is only used by this application and I would like to switch FM4 to TCP/IP. But it does not work. The Win98 can see the network. Everybody is configured for TCP/IP, but none of the clients, PCs or Macs can see the host. Is there any solution? Upgrade to FM5? Move this Filemaker to an NT machine? Or something that I have to configurein the Network settings? Thanks a lot!

I have been trying to print to an HP Laserjet 4L, but .eps graphics placed on the layouts print low res and white on black text fills in. I have discovered that there are known issues with FM and this printer, but does anyone know of a fix?

I am currently running FMPro5 Server Mac. on OS9 (Server). 3 LocalTerminals (Mac OS 8.6) 1 Local Terminal (W98. We Have 2 Clients which connect to D.Bases Via Remote access (Mac). My Problem is that From home I am running W98 and running FMPro 5(W98) and I cannot log on to the host. I am using PCMaclan 7.2 and I can see shared files on Mac server but when I try to access databases I get nothing. I am able to log on to server using dial-up with server IP Address set at 192.168.0.1 (SNM)255.255.255.0.. All terminals are set sequentially with the exception of Mac Client used to check e-mail, which is connecting via Apple talk. When I attemt to access host from home (…

Running FMP 4.0 with v3 update on a client desktop, connecting via TCP/IP to remote server. TCP/IP connection made OK, but FMP crashes in the middle of the access sequence. Get a Dr. Watson error that mentions an access violation. Uninstalling and reinstalling FMP and updates on client works temporarily, but fix doesn't work more than once or twice and never after morning startup. Any thoughts out there? Been suggested problem may lie in corporate version of NT modified for security reasons.

I have a problem when starting FMP - it displays Successfully Loaded TCP/IP then hangs for about 10 minutes. Task manager shows that FMP is using all available cpu time. Has anyone seen this before and know of a fix? Thanks

quote: Originally posted by comptracon: I have a FMP 4.0 database system that runs on Mac and Win. Everything prints fine on the Mac but one layout prints large white blocks on the page. I have never seen this before. Printer incompatibilities possibly. You almost always need seperate print layouts for Mac and Win since both the printers and fonts differ so greatly. ------------------ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Kurt Knippel Senior Filemaker Developer http://www.database-resources.com mailto:[email protected] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

We have a Network with an normal NT Server and a Terminal Server. On the normal Server runs Filemaker Pro Server 3 On normal Clients filemaker 4 runs normal. On the terminal Server Clients filemaker runs very slow. Other programs on terminal server works good. Does anyone has an idea?? Thanx, Laurens

My company has used File Maker for years on MAC computers, but they have decided to switch to PC's. When we transferred the database from the MAC's to the PC the layout on the screen was fine, but when we print a sheet the layout becomes misaligned. We have sheets of data that display operation numbers in one column and they must line up with the operation data in another column. Well on the screen the numbers line up with the data, but when we print the sheet the numbers no longer align with the data. It worked perfectly on the MAC version, but when used on a PC we have that problem. What could cause this problem? Please help.

I am porting a database from FMP4 MAC to FMP4WINDOWS, I rename the FMP Mac file with a .fp3 extension, but the files names in the scripts haven't this extension and the script don't work because of this. Do you know how to globaly change the file name to add .fp3 extension because I have dozen of scripts. I plan to upgrade to PMP5, do you think I will have to modify all scripts an other times (extension are FP5) ?

Hi there, I have a large FM DB used over a network. I do know how to protect the records by passwords - but how can I prevent a user from copying the whole database file into its own PC and then take away an authorized copy? I have tried offering the DB over intranet (web broswer) but it's quite slow and with limited features. Any idea about what can I do? Thanks. Regards Johnny

I am sharing a filemaker 5.0 database from the network server, (NT), and the first person that opens the the database on their workstation gets the message: "You are about to become the host of the multi-user file....etc. etc." I have seen something about a registry mod that will disable that message. Does anyone have this or know what I need to do to disable it? Thanks for the help. If you do, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks again. ------------------ Brian J. Marks [email protected]

i have a Dell PC w/Win95...plenty of ram & rom...after i install FM-Pro 5, when i try to lite it up, it freezes on the "build font" point. I have removed all but the essential system fonts. it stalls on the required fonts,it still freezes! Anybody got any suggestions??

Sorry this is such a basic question but please can anybody help! I have a simple database on a small network and am experiencing long time delays when 'guests' are swapping between databases. At present I am using the 'open' command to access another database. Is there a better solution? Much thanks Nick

Has anyone had any difficulty or discovered any bugs with any combination of the following software packages (all on PC): FMPro v5.0, MSWindows 2000, MSOffice 2000, FMPro 5.0 Server? I've got a client that is evaluating an update of 75 cpu's. Appreciate any feedback. Thanks! ------------------ James Medema