Connectivity

I have a system running 38 files and now want to be able to run it to another building about 50 meters apart. What is the best way to go about this? I will need a pretty reliable connection and speed (the application is up to 80MB and rising!), I have never done this before and am unsure of the best way to do it in FM. All comments gratefully received, Mark

I've just tried to open one of my FM dbs via Timbuktu dialup (Mac OS9 both computers, FMP 6.04 on both) and it won't recognize/accept my password which includes characters generated by typing with the "Option" key held down. Has anyone had this trouble before, and if so, is there a workaround that doesn't involve changing all my passwords on all my files? Thanks, Murray

I am hosting 4 filemaker files on a Windows 2000 Server that have multipule people who can log directly onto the server as administrators. How can I keep filemaker and my passworded files running on the server and have the capability to log off the server so that other administrators can log on?

I need to know how 2 users at different locations can access a file maker db with full scripting functionallity not with a web browser that limits scripts but with file maker pro application . Is it possible to have the same scripts functionalitty from remote locations compared with what you can do in a LAN? I just need to know the basic steps please. Help really appreciated. By the way I am trying a G5 with 10.3 working like server with a full time ADSL link at 256kbps with a static IP. What is needed for accesing the DB from a distant location using filemaker appart from using open remote and writting the server static IP? Something is not working because the server i…

Greetings. I'm trying to connect a Mac to a PC remotely (dial-up) using TIMBUKTU. I can get the mac to dial the access number but the PC does not connect. I'm not too versed in TCP/IP Networking. Any help/tips will be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I'm new to FM Pro having just purchased it. My business partner has a copy of the Mac version 6 and I have the Windows version 6. We want to share a common database with one another that we can both access and update from our separate locations. We both have broadband and we also have a domain that is hosted. I understand that you can use the remote hosting feature, but what we want is to be able to access the file independently. We won't be using the file at the sametime. I've placed the fp5 file on our ftp site and made sure the permissions are set properly. I created a Network Neighborhood location for our FTP site that allows me to use it as…

I work for a small organisation with an office based in a library. Our current setup is as follows: 1 Mac G4 hosting our database (FMServer 5.5) + 3 iMacs (2 running FMPro 5.5 and 1 running FMPro 6) G4 > Hub1 iMac

I have a PC with Windows 98, second addition and I just put in Norton Anti Virus 2003. Today I went open Filemaker and it does not open. I've had this problem before. I shut down, turn on the computer and try again (3 times). NO luck. This has happened alot. The last time I used this file was 9/14/03. In the past, I would give up and not try for another 24 hours, and then it would open. I need this file. Can anyone help??? [color:"purple"]

Hello The company I work for is looking at linking its 2 remote offices with its main office so that everyone shares the one FM database which is based at head office. The 2 remote offices are about 200 miles apart from one and other. And we would also like to be able to log in from our homes at night. This could increase the user access to 12 at Head office, 5 at Remote sites and a possible 5 from there homes. We are all Mac based 9.2 and 10.2 and will be using Filemaker Pro 6 + FM Server. I have checked broadband availability and it will be available mid October 2003. Is this the best route for us to take? ADSL, iSDN or Other Do you have any inform…

I have a problem using Timbuktu Pro to connect to a FileMaker database when I try to connect with a computer using Windows. The computer I connect to uses Mac OS9 and filemaker 5.5. When I start FileMaker on the remote computer Timbuktu shuts down because of an unexpected error. It is strange because It works great working with all software on the remote computer except for FileMaker. I have tried using both Windows ME and XP, but i still cant use FileMaker on the remote computer. Has anyone else experienced the same problem? //Greger

Hi I've used the applescript command getURL to transfer data directly between two databases running on macs over ip. Is there a similar way to do this where the sending database is running on a pc and the receiving one is on a mac? Thanks Jonathan

I am trying this post in a different forum as I have not had satisfactory responses in the past. We have five servers Mac/PC running FMS 5.03 and 5.5. Recently we have had the tow PC servers (Dell Poweredge 600sc, P4, Win 2000 Server) drop the host name from the FM network. We have had the same happen to a Mac (G4 tower, OS 9.1), but not for a long time. To fix problem, we have to restart the server. Occurence is random and connected client are not effected. Have spoken to FileMaker, but they won't admit it is their problem. As clients already connected are not effected, it cannot be a hub/switch or NIC issue. I surmise that FM networking is failing to broadcast…

Hi, we just started using Timbuktu for remote acess to our FMP-database. The problem is how our remote users print from filemaker. Is it possible for them to use their personal printer instead of the default printer for the computer they connect to?

How well does Timbuktu work with FileMaker and Mac OS9? I have tried VPN, but we are using a slow DSL connection and it was just too slow. At the moment I only have two other users who is going to acess the database from a remote location. Is Timbuktu the best solution?

Using FM 5.5v2 client on small network. One database setup as multi-user TCP/IP hosted on one Mac running OS 10.2.6. IP address set to a valid manual address. None of the other computers (PC's & Macs), all with FM 5.5v2, on the network can't see it being hosted. Acting like port 5003 is blocked, but this is internal to the network. Not able to find the router in the time that I had there. Not accessible via web interface. Was told the router is 5-10 years old, but no one knows how to configure it, the password, or even where it's located physically. But that may not be where the problem lies, so I don't know if I should even bark up that tree. As a qui…

I have a FM Server on a 1meg SDSL LAN to which remote users on standard DSL connections happily use. One of my remote users recently moved to North Wales where standard DSL is not accessible so I set up a satellite DSL service believing that this would be the solution for him to connect to the server via IP. I did this as I knew nothing about latency issues which now prove to be a major problem as the database takes 10 times longer to open than it did over ISDN. Does anybody know of an affordable solution to this? I have spoken to a couple of companies who are developing software which improves the latency issues on a Mac by reducing the TCP/IP header compress…

I have an FM6 solution running on a Win2000 PC with a static IP address. I have a remote user running FMP6 also. Can the remote user access the FM6 solution by entering the static IP adress in their "host" dialogue, or is this an oversimplification of what's needed? Thanks.

All, I've posted this query here as I think it has more to do with my internet configuration rather than serving fm. Anyway here goes... I've recently 'invested' in an ADSL connection. The new modem [speedTouch 350] works perfectly for browsing/email and is assigned a dynamic IP by my ISP. The modem serves an ethernet network. I'm running OSX. Now I need to serve my FM dbs to the web. I know the dynamic ip will mean that I don't have a static site, but I can get around this by using the re-direction technique provided by no-ip.com as suggested in a previous post. The problem seems to be in directing incoming web connections to the web server rather tha…

I have a client who has about 14 elderly Macs networked together using a 24 port hub. Recently one of their colleagues changed over to a new IBM PC, with Windows XP Professional installed. She has a static IP address assigned by the DSL provider, and DSL is uplinked through the hub and works fine at her computer. Everyone else gets their IP address through DHCP and has no problems. The company is using a Blue & White G3 running Filemaker Server. Our problem is that after loading the Windows FM Pro on her PC we cannot get it to "see" the FM Pro Server files or the network printers. All of the Macs are set up running TCP/IP for Filemaker Pro. I have talked to IBM, to Fi…

I am tying to install FileMaker server 5 on a windows 2000 small business server which is running Internet Security and Acceleration server (ISA Server). The ISA filewall client is also installed on win 2k workstations. The server has 2 network cards(1 lan, 1 to router / web). The overall network is running fine.. However I install filemaker server on the win 2k server machine - check the settings and make sure filemaker server is broadcasting on the correct (LAN) ip. The service starts fine. However none of the clients can see the FileMaker server?:?? I have tried just about anything including installing filemaker server on another machine and still no luck. I am assu…

I just set up FM5 server and have it humming along via LAN Cables. However, when we connect our Wireless IEEE cards and select HOST we do not have any access. I can ping the hosting computer with no problem and view files on it as well via the wireless. If I reconnect the LAN cable, there's no problem. I tried disabling LAN access through windows and rebooting but the problem persists. Please help...

Anybody out there any experince of running FileMaker over a VPN?

Hello all- After upgrading to FM server 5.5 and FM pro 5.5, I had some difficulty creating my opener file. In my script the step: Open [Mydb.fp5(*)] would show the asterisk rather than the IP address of my host, regardless of whether or not I checked save relative path. The users that are physically in the same office with me were able to use this to connect to the server. However, users outside of my office would get an error =100 (file not found). The only way that I was able to get FM to insert the actual IP address of my server (rather than the asterisk) was to create this script from one of the off-site client computers. Does anyone know …

I need some advice please. I am using FM Server v5.5 on an Xserver running OS10.2.1. We are on a firewall protected NT4 LAN. We have 2 remote sites that want to be able to access the server's databases through our fire wall. We currently do not allow any ports through our firewall(other than our website). We have a sonic firewall. I have read some posts here that specify opening port 5003 and setting up NAT on the router on the network. What I am hazy on is what to do at the client end which is located in other cities. Do I need to set up a VPN to our site. Also, how do I make this a secure connection? One site has a DSL connection and the other uses a cable modem. We hav…

For some reason, I can no longer get the DIal Phone script step to work. I get the "Hang up you modem" box, but nothing happens. I know the modem in my B/W Mac G3-350, running OS 9.2, is working, because I can send faxes with it. This feature was working until I had to do a disk rebuild (from the bottom up - new installation of all OS and application files). The modem is set up as ATQ0V1E1S0=0, Prefix is DT (I'm using this on private line), Hang Up is +++ATH, speed is set at 28800 (highest one available in FMP 4.0). It's frustrating because I have grown very accustomed to this neat time saving feature. Anyone know why this problem happened?

A friend has just told me about no-ip. Thought it might be useful to anyone wanting to share FMPRO files over TCP/IP with a dynamic ISP allocated IP address. Go to www.no-ip.com for all the info. It is free and basically allows you to set up a domain name such as fmproserver.no-ip.info which means that your users will always be able to log onto the host even when your IP address is routinely changed by reconnecting.

Hi! I'm new to this forum, but from what I've read so far, you look like a great group. I'm designing a job tracking/workflow solution using FM Pro and web companion to be used on an intranet. The maximum number of IP connections is 10, but ideally I'd like about 15. Unfortunately, as I'm sure you all know, I can't just buy additional seats. In the on-line help, it states that the maximum number of connections is 10, but under certain conditions, you can have up to 25 connections with a single shared file with that number decreasing as the number of shared files increases. What it doesn't tell me is "What are the conditions!!!"??? Does anyone know how I wou…

i have read a few of the threads in this forum and they all talk about citrix and timbuktu for remote conections to fm server but what i want to know is what is wrong with just going to open remote and then specifying the host by its ip address

A client has come to us asking if we can provide a filemaker swipe or card push entry system which will obviously log members going to and from the gym, but also when they swipe the card through the door must unlock, I'm sure you all understand the idea as it is used a lot, but is there a viable integrated filemaker solution?, are there companies that create such a card swipe system that can open doors, and talk to a filemaker database??

When I try to access files on os9 (FMP 5.5) "server" from osX "client" (FMP 5.5)via open host dialog there are no hosts. Works from os9 to os9 no probs, also works from classic. We,re not running FM server serving files wit client version. I can log onto the "server" and access all other files via file sharing. if I try ( Iknow your not supposed to) to share FM files through file sharing I get single user or in use message. The rest of our office isn't ready to go osX but iI don't want to go back to 9 please help!!!!

I was wondering if anyone might know why the following is happening: I have a database that is accessed by a few users (2-3) on a Windows 2000 server (db resides) and Windows 98 (Client O/S). This database has a relationship with an images db. The problem lies when the file is opened by any user (client or server becomes the host) not all the records appear in the database. Then whenever the hosted file is opened by another user (a Guest of the Host) all the records are visible??? The password used to open the file is full access and NTFS and sharing permissions are full control as well. - Does anyone have an idea as to why and what could be causing the problem?…

A customer of mine installed ADSL telephone lines to allow personel to work from home. Everything runs fine and fast as usual but when opening some databases the database starts calculating (for example the date of today???) and that can take up to ten minutes. They have a filemaker server and everything runs fine in the office. What's happening? Thankyou for reading and eventually answering my question. Mich

I am running server 5.5 on W2K Server with db files and 50 + users (all internal). Occasionally the ability to see the list of db's in the "host view" is lost. Users can still get to the list by specifing the host's ip address. The situation is corrected only by a re-boot of the server. This on happens every infrequently and I'm not sure I can associate an event with occurance. Question? (well two actually) can the FM server be "re-freshed" without a re-boot or stopping the service? And, is there any method by which time in the "send message to all" dialog can be extended beyond 30 seconds (other than the disconnect notice which allows longer time). Thx

Just got back from a client site where they have recently installed a two-way satellite internet connection. The dealer who installed it normally does satellite TV installations, and this was his first ever datacom installation. So, he was on the phone to the ISP a lot trying to get things configured. Results were disappointing. Speed is barely any better than the old 56K modem/router setup. In fact, loading of web pages is actually worse. The ISP says the minimum average file download speed should be 200kb/sec and as high as 2000kb/sec. The best we got was 20kb/sec. Obviously, something is seriously wrong. Has anyone had any experience with these systems, and …

I have FMP server 5.0 running on a win2k server box. We use it internally (within the LAN) successfully. We are now opening offices across the country and we need them to be able to connect to our databases. So far we accomplished that using Win2k server Terminal Services and it works fine and fast BUT we are having local printer mapping problems making it so that TS clients can't print from our database (in the TS session) to their local printer. we've tried everything to solve this issue without success... So we decided to try accessing the databases without TS using Specify Host from FMP. From a WinXP station outside the LAN (FMP5.0v3, ISDN) we cannot see the…

Hi Can some one tell me whats the best way to connect 3 seperate artwork studios around the country to access a single database in one of the studios. It will be used by about 20 users through out the day. All Macintosh users with FM6 and FM Server running of a iMac. We are looking at a 2 channel iSDN line or 500k ADSL supplied by BT.

We have a router, but it has no DHCP capabilities! Does anyone know of a Shareware or freeware DHCP server that will run on a Mac (OS9 preferably), and serve a small local network? We don't need routing capabilities. We just want a simple program that can dynamically assign IP addresses and preset DNS server and router IPs.

I run FM5 server on a mac in my office. A remote office with a Windows 2000 network accesses the database from their mixed OS computers. Two of the computers can see the database via remote hosts, and two cannot. The Windows 2000 Pro computer cannot see it. The Windows 98 computer can see it Mac OS 9 computer can see it. A fourth computer (Win 98) can no longer see the database after drive was reformatted and Win98 reinstalled. The Win2000 computer can see a local database hosted on the Macintosh. I am stumped. Any ideas? Thanks Jeff Patterson [email protected]

I'm new to sharing DBases and need help. I've two computers with FM on them one a PC (W2K, FM6) and one Mac (OS9, FM5.5). I've one little file to test with, on which I've set a password with full privileges, and set File Sharing to Multi-User, and checked Companion Sharing to Local Data Access Companion. I'm opening the file on my PC, and accessing it on the Mac. When I click the Mac's "Host" button it presents me with a Blank list. If I try to open the file from the file list, I get "Source.fp5 is currently in use and could not be opened. The file is single-user or the host could not be found on the network". If I try it from PC to Mac, I get the same mes…

Hello all, I have a growing relational database system I am building for my own start - up company. Soon I expect to have it hosted remotely so my partner and I can both access it from home. Right Now i'm hosting it on my own home computer (G4/400mhz). He has a new G4, much more powerful than mine. I am cable, he is 56k. before I go any further, on either of our machines, FMP runs really fast. we're using FMP5. Now the probem is, we have tried to have him connect to me as a guest user, and also with filemaker Server 5 on my machine, thinking that might help. Neither way seemed to make a difference; and neither did it seem to help if FMP/server was…

hi all i want to connect to my filemaker server from my home to the office, there for on my firewal i need to port the ip address of the server through the firewall, does anyone know what port that FM server uses? thanks

Hi Everyone, I am running FMP 5 on a dedicated Filemaker Server (TCP/IP) and a Novell 6 network which is set up and maintained by abn outside organisation. The PC's are having difficulty holding onto the network protocol. I have re-congigured this several times and the novell network technician has ghosted the image across to each PC. It occassionally works when trying to access the FMP database thru the Network Application Launcher but all too often the Filemaker network settings are set to 'none' and I have to reset it in preferences, close filemaker and relaunch from the NAL and it works ? Does anyone know anything about this stuff or pointe…

I have a client with a network problem. I suspect too many hubs. Someone once told me that there should be no more than 2 hubs between any two LAN nodes that want to communicate with each other. However, that is not physically practical in this situation. Between the computer C1 and the printer P1 there are a total of 3 hubs, one switch and one Ethernet to Localtalk converter and a couple of media converters. The topology is as follows: C1------H1====H2-------H3====MC1-------S1-------MC2====EL1..........P1 Where: Cn Computer (Macintosh) Pn : Printer (postscript laserwriter) Hn : Hub Sn : Switch ELn : Ethernet to LocalTalk a…

This is a repeat from the Macintosh section, but I am hard-pressed to find a resolution... I have posted similar queries in another forum, but am hoping that there is a connection here with certain port 5003 issues: I have several users working with a FileMaker Server hosted database who are complaining that they are being disconnected frequently. The most common message seems to be: Communication with the host was interrupted and could not be re-established(-3259) or sometimes (-1072) (Close File). This is on a Blue G3 Tower running OS 9.1 and FileMaker Server 5.0v2. The majority of complaints are coming from us…

I'm pretty new to FileMaker so I hope someone can help me. My work just purchased Filemaker 5.5 and filemaker server 5.5 and I would like to know the best way to go about using dial up remote access to access the database from a laptop or other computer when away from the office. any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Nathan

Hello, My brother's company runs an FMP 5.5 database on Windows XP(Home). The client systems are Windows ME, and Win 98SE, running FMP 5.0. The client systems cannot see the DB on the host. I was going in to check the XP firewall settings. Will the FMP 5.0 talk to the FMP 5.5 across a network?

i had posted a similar question before but i'm thinking I did not phrase it properly... I have a windows xp computer running filemaker 5.5. I have a local area network where I host a bunch of files for the office people. I'm having a heck of a time being able to connect from home to the computer. I can connect via web companion by typing the ip address in a web browser...but I would like to be able to connect with my filemaker program at home so the interface would be the same... i have tried with or without the firewall...i am very confused as to the setup i'm supposed to do... where am i supposed to open port 5003? i don't have a router..i have a …

Hi I need to use a cash-drawer with my FM POS. Any idea where I could get a cash-drawer that would connect with my IMac? Bikeman17 "The road belongs to me"

Someone has sent me FM files to work with that were created on a MAC but I can't seem to read them. They come in to my computer as *.SIT and I am not sure what they are. I have FM5.5. Any ideas or suggestions. I am trying to find out what version they have. [ March 10, 2002, 08:58 AM: Message edited by: symansky ]

I have a windows xp computer. My computer is the host and there are 5 other computers in our office that connect to my computer via tcp/ip. I have dsl service and was wondering if I also have filemaker at home, is it possible for me to access the files on my computer so that I don't have to go thru instant web publishing. If it is possible..how would i go about doing it (how would i map the path from my computer at home to the computer at the office)? thanks

I'm new to web publishing, am trying to test my first application using trial version of FM 5.5 with CDML and localhost on a PC. I can make changes in my HTML editor (CoffeeCup) and bounce back and forth to browser (usually netscape but same happens with I.E.) but there comes a point when I enter http://localhost in the address box and it just sit there with the status message "resolving host localhost". The browser continues to run SLOW until I shut down FileMaker. Restarting the machine doesn't resolve the problem. Thanks.

We have a user that has been using FM Pro for several years. recently, we needed to move this uyser to another building. We have network connectivity through a Cisco wireless access point, and a wireless bridge. Since the user is connected to a switch, and then into the wireless bridge, no changes were made to her network settings. Yet, whenever she attempts to access ANY files she receives an error message stating that the file is not multi-user or the host could not be found. She is able to browse to the directory where the files are located (which is in the building she moved from). She can also access the files when she is logged into a computer in the main buil…

I just upgraded our databases from 4.1 to 5.5 and installed one new and one upgraded 5.5 on the LAN. We use AirPort to network. The main machine has the FP5 files on it. The folder in which the files are stored is shared with the other computers on the network. When a machine on the net shares this folder with my main system, it can see the files in the folder just fine. All of the files are marked multi-user and not hidden and all are sharing over TCP/IP. But any attempt to open a file which is already open on the other machine results in an error saying the file is single-user or the host can't be found on the network. Clearly the host is found; it's sharing the fil…

Remote office clients connect across 56k frame-relay; using TCP/IP. 4 minutes to open med-size DB, 15 minutes to close the DB. I don't expect great speed at 56k, but any suggestions on "performance tuning" of FM5.5 server and database to help this? This seems extremely slow. Probably will upgrade to 128k connection, but still would like optimized performance.

Pardon the posting in more than one subheading. I am trying to set up my remote users such that they aren't coming into the filemaker server 5.0.3 on the default port of 5003. All I am changing is port address translation for port 5003. Setting it so that 9999=5003, both UDP and TCP. When this is done, it doesn't transmit the DB list. If feels like a UDB problem, but I have a sneaky suspicion that FM isn't able to handle this for some unknown reason. Any thoughts, Ideas? experiences of your own? clients coming in using both 5.5 and 5.0 on 9.1, and 10.1.1 (macs only, so far). Server is OS 9.2.2, running 5.0.3. thanks, st

I ran into a wird problem. I Have a Fmp 5.0 Unlimited hosting a native fmp 5.0 DB (created by FMP 5 Unlimited) on the backside off a router/firewall,(filtring all, exept port 21, 80, 5003) with some nating. I found this info in the FMP 5.5 help file under "firewall" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- " FileMaker Pro shows only the databases hosted on your local TCP/IP subnet. To open a database on a different TCP/IP subnet, in the Hosts dialog box, click Specify Host and enter the host computer's IP address or domain name. ? If the guest is outside your LAN's firewall, blocking must be removed from port number 5003 b…

We have currently in our small business 2 Win2000 servers(same build and version) with filemaker 5.5 installed and running. Both servers have been setup almost identically but only one server shows up in the local hosts list when trying to connect from a win98 pc client. There is no conflict whatsoever regarding ip addresses we run an internal 10.10.10.x network and both servers are gated through the same firewall. The user accounts are the same on both servers and we have confirmed that both filemaker programs are identically setup regarding user and protocols(TCP/IP) and multiusersharing. We can ping both servers without trouble and theres no difference in the routing…

PROGRAM PREFERENCES CONTINUALLY FORGOTTEN I have set up a FMP database on the TCP/IP network here at work. There are three shared files hosted by a dedicated machine. As we all know, for users to access these shared files across the network the 'user name' and proper 'network type' must be set in general preferences. The database works great when FMP chooses to remember this info. However, FMP5.0.3 often forgets the these pesky program preferences . . . username field is 'blank' and network protocol is 'none' . . . How can I ensure that fmp remembers its program settings?

Is there a preferred way to synchronize a remote database to a server version, across a Wide area network?

perhaps a really stupid problem: FileMaker unlimited is online. Web companion is running ok. everything works over a browser. But now we want to directly open the database with another filemaker via TCP/IP from another place via web. By clicking "hosts" an putting the IP-Adress, no connection can be built. A Ping works correctly. Is there a solution : Thank U

I use Filemaker 5.0V3 5 PC in network : A windows NT (with the bases) 2 local PC using windows 98se 2 distant PC using FMP 5 connected via 3 Elsa Lancom 800 isdn routers I have a problem once the connection is established, the routers does not hang up after time-out expires. I have very heavy telephone bills (I saw 5003 packets go from server to distant PC preventing routers to quit). the only (bad ) solution I found is to quit filemaker after using the base (but the base is big and the connection to server needs 8mn at 64Kb/mn to load) thank in advance pierre-henri

I would like to know if anyone knows how to connect FM pro 5.0 to FM pro 5.0. I saw this demonstrated once. You were able to specify the host ip address and this let the user into a hosted DB on another server thru my DSL connection. I have port 591 opened up and I can access this with-in my network. How can I setup this so I can access form home? RET

This is very odd.... I just created a new DB and set it for Multi user. But it is not showing up on certain computers... Here is the scenario : We have 11 computers networked to a server. At the moment only 8 of them are on. The weird thing is that only 5 of those computers can see the host of the file and can share. We own 7 copies of Filemaker and 6 of those computers have their own filemaker and rest share the last filemaker since they are hardly used, and they cannot simoultaneously be used. But the computer i'm on can't see it. I checked everythig. All the computer has their own serial numbers (so nothing illegal.. hehe). They all have their own I.P. address…

Hi- We have a very small office (under 10 people), and have been using FMP as long as I can remember. We recently upgraded to 5 (right before 5.5 was released, go figure). Since we don't have an extra Mac lying around, the office manager hosts. Needless to say, the performance is less than stellar- lots of crashes, speed of host computer is horrible, etc. It finally occurred to me (after reading it in the FMP 5 manual) that we could use the never-touched Gateway PC to play host. I don't have the software for this yet- I'm still trying to convince my boss that this is our best bet. So here are my questions (sorry for the long intro): 1. Will there be a problem using a…

My vpn connection to the office will pull a file off the computer at around 250k ( cable modem on both ends ). Hoever, when using FM over the vpn I only recieve around 40k. Same computers same connection. I know that graphics slow things down but it seems that the KB/S would be the same but the end result would be slower with lots of graphics. In other words even with out the graphics I would still be only recieving 40K. If anyone has any ideas on the subjedt I would appreaciate it. Raif

I have FMPro 4 running on three machines: one host machine (database set to multiuser) and two clients. When both clients work on the same database opened on the host, the host repeatedly brings the message (translated from German Version) : "Waiting for client xy to respond... I can only click "Disconnect". So one client is disconnected. How can I avoid this nasty problem? Thanks Martin

I want to make a net of 5 computers, MAC and PC, I would like to know that software or utility have to have installed in an imac to make it a server. Thank you for their help.

I have a linksys router on cable modem. I have turned on forwarding for port 5003 for TCP only, to my assigned nic. Still cannot see the list of hosted files. I do have web companion enabled and the file(s) are shared. When I enter in the IP for my machine hosting the file, I get the linksys administration html page.

I cannot get anything to show in the host dialog box. I am networking 2 pc's using 10/100 cards and 3Com hub. I am completely new to this network stuff. One pc uses Win98se and the other WinME. I have set the files to Multi user or multi user hidden. I open the files on one pc then go to the other to open as guest, I have tried on both pcs. Using FMP5.0v3 with unique serial numbers. I can see the printers and other files and folders on the network. When I start FMP and select open then Hosts I get an empty dialog box, I click the locals hosts but get nothing. I expect I am doing something totally wrong and probably missing something simple. Any help appreciated.

Concerning an E.mails database with FMP5 using the plug-in Mail.It. I would like to have a script line that will allow me to copy from any Mac computer with an internet connection, the SMTP server name specify in Remote Access, to be able to send mails from anywhere (with "From" set as my usual address ). Within ScriptMaker any possibilty of getting this automatically? (I don't need password, or log-In Name) Thank you for your help. Philippe Pierre

AAAAAAAAAAARGH! i'm hosting an fm database via FM server, but computers in different zones can't see the host at all. is it a problem with filemaker that it can't see hosts in different subnets? I checked the connectivity otherwise and everything seemed to be working. I'm running the server on NT, and the client machines are both Mac and PC running FM5. I'm using TCP/IP as the network protocol in FM. Is there anything I can do? thanks, Ati, jedi master

We are trying to network 2 x PC.s but keep getting Error Code 10. Can anyone shine some light on this code?

Hi, A client of mine is running a solution since one year. His set-up is NT server running FMP5 and 12 PCs (win95 & 98). A couple of weeks ago someone in the company decided to doanload a Service Pack Upgrade from Microsoft and installed it on the server (great idea!! this person is Not computer litterate and just was on the MS site and thought it was a cool thing to do!!!). Since then the clients do not "see" the host files anymore. I have reinstalled FMP, but nothing. The solution for me is to install the files on another machine, then no problem. Any suggestions?? Thanx, Steven

Hi all, I have a Mac (G4) running FMPserver over tcp/ip (10 mac clients + 1 PC). The PC (win98) does not "see" the host's files. (It sees the other Macs and printers in the Network browser and it connects to the internet through the router). I have reinstalled FMP and checked that tp/ip is the protocol. I have set-up Mac/PC soilutions before and never had this problem. It usually works fine without any configuration. Any ideas of where to check ?? Thanks, Steven

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Hi All, I've installed a FM pro server behind a firewall that can be accessed successfully by FM clients from private (non firewalled) locations, so I know the "server" firewall is allowing outside requests in. My problem involves client machines installed in commercial premises behind another firewall ("client" firewall). Do I need to convince the IT staff to open a port on the "client" firewall so the requests originating from client machines can get out to the FM pro server? Initial discussions with these guys have met with much trepidation, they are very concerned about possible security breaches. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to …

I'm having trouble connecting my old Claris E-mailer (which I love) through a cable router (XRouter Pro). It works fine without the router. Does anyone know a remedy? I am on a Mac. [email protected] [ May 10, 2001: Message edited by: Lyn ]

Hi guys - Need some help / suggestions. I'm trying to punch through a firewall to a Filemaker Server at a clients, who has a DSL modem, a static IP, and an internet gateway software to route internet internally on his network. According to Filemaker Article 104289, you assign Port 5003 to the server, and allow both UDP and TCP traffic to it. But according to Filemaker Article 106727, this is not possible since Filemaker server cannot utilize Network Address Translation or Proxy type addresses. The only real solution I can see is to put the server computer on its on own real world IP, not firewalled, which is a bit outrageous to my customer. Has anyone else run Filem…

I would like to allow users to access a FM server directly, over the internet. We have a firewall that alows reverse TCP conections. However a port for the hosting address has to be specified. I cannot find any documentation that details a port to use (and I have tried the web port of 591). Any help would be appreciated

i've installed the FMP sever 5.0 on the windows nt4 sp6. It connected with the internet directly without any firewall by a cable modem. I've another user in japan (256K leased line) and singapore (128K leased line). But both of them still feel the performance still poor. And I found my server upload speed no more than 150kbps. Is there any method to improve upload speed? P.S.: when i upload file to japan it have 200-400kbps.

I know this is probably not the right list but I have a query. I can access my filemaker database over the internal network via tcp/ip address of 192.168.0.1. I can access my database over the internet by putting in ip.ip.ip.ip:8080 . But put in the specify hosts box ip.ip.ip.ip for my permanant external dial up ip address and nothing happens. I have checked all the relevant boxes. Multi user etc. I am running Windows 2000 server, with filemaker unlimited running web companion on port 8080, I am also running microsoft exchange server on the same machine. I can ping the external ip address and see it through a browser just not through specify hosts. Any …

I am having problems connecting to a filemaker server from outside the network. I have the router set up so that port 5003 is open for tcp/ip. I have gotten it to connect a few times, but it is random.. and most of the time it just brings up an empty record set list. what could possibly be the problem. please help: ]

Hi, We try to setup a network such that not only allow FMP User/Client access to a FMP server database and but the Web User as well. Anyone has any idea. Someone mentioned about setting up IIS (Internet Informaiton System). But I am sure how it's work. Currently we use PC/Windows Thank you for any information and advise or any resource that I can contact. Hung pham [email protected]

I have two Powerbooks (Pismo and G4) which need simultaneous access to six reasonably hefty FMP databases. As well as FMP, the books will continuously run productivity applications (Office, Xpress, Dreamweaver, Photoshop etc). I have a 7100/66/48Mb running MacOS 8.5 that I could set up as a dedicated FMP Server. Is it up to the job or do we need more powerful hardware? Should I be running FMP Server or can I get away with the standard edition? Would it help to downgrade the OS -- if so, to what? Would I be better to simply share between the Powerbooks? (this could create a problem when the machine running the database is out of the building). If the 7100 is up to the…

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…

I'm in the process of upgrading my own little office network which consists of 2 Macs, a PC, two printers and a cable modem. One Mac and one printer are localtalk only. I know I can get the components separately, but does anyone make a 5 port ethernet router with an ethernet to localtalk bridge all in one box? I'm getting tired of switching my appletalk config. everytime I want to switch printers.

Ok, here's my scenerio: 2 store locations, each have a DSL connection. If I share a FM database at one store (with security turned on obviously) can the second store access the database through the Internet? Not via a web browser, but via sharing a Filemaker file. Thanks mcarter

I am looking for ways to securely connect to our company databases from outside the firewall. The remote users do not have fixed IP addresses, so IP number based filtering at the firewall is not useful. In any case I would be happier knowing the password and data are encrypted. Is anyone connecting to FileMaker securely over TCP/IP? What are you using? My first try was tunneling TCP/IP over a Secure Shell connection (using MacSSH). This almost works, I can contact the FileMaker Server through the firewall but can not see any of the databases. My guess from browsing the FileMaker Knowledge Base is that FileMaker Pro 5 is using UDP to obtain the list of databases, and onl…

Hey everybody, I've got a relational database of about 12 files installed on a network and everybody loves it. Only problem is, now they want to use it over a T1 connection with partial bandwidth to remote offices but it takes forever to work. Is FileMaker not designed for this kind of networking? Is this happening because of the relational nature of the DB? Is there an obvious fix to this problem? Thanks a bunch, Dave

The problem: Arbitray disconnection of users from database with the standard "Communication with host interrupted....." message. O/S: Windows NT 4.0 (SP6). Filemaker Server ver 5.x. Filemaker Pro ver 5.x. Asante hub at 10T half duplex. 46 hosted databases. Averages 28 Windows and 2 Mac users. Installed new network card, recrimped all lines, NT running clean. I am looking for any other solutions that may cause this to occur (software, hardware etc.).

I am interested what speeds anyone has had success with running their databases with over DSL, cable or satellite (one/two way). Unfortunately I may have to try it over a satellite which has approx. 700MS delay. I would like to know if this is even usable. database is approx 2000-3k records, but could reduce to 150 of only active records to speed things up... Anyones input appreciated.. Thx RD

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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet). When you are set up with direct access to the Internet, your computer is provided with a copy of the TCP/IP program just as every other computer that you may send messages to or get information from also has a copy of TCP/IP. TCP/IP is a two-layer program. The higher layer, Transmission Control Protocol, manages the assembling of a message or file into smaller packets (see packet) that are transmitted over the Internet and rec…

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet). When you are set up with direct access to the Internet, your computer is provided with a copy of the TCP/IP program just as every other computer that you may send messages to or get information from also has a copy of TCP/IP. TCP/IP is a two-layer program. The higher layer, Transmission Control Protocol, manages the assembling of a message or file into smaller packets (see packet) that are transmitted over the Internet and rec…

I know there is a way to assign myself a "permanent IP address" in windows 95 so that I do not have to be logged onto the internet to publish my FMP files (to myself) for testing. I just can't find the instructions anywhere. Does anyone know how to do this?

Got a network of 2 iMacs up and running yesterday via a 5 port Linksys ethernet hub. The Filemaker hosting to the guest worked fine until they dialed out to AOL from the guest. After that, the guest could not reconnect to the Filemaker host. They went back in an reset the TCP/IP control panel exactly as it was before (when it worked). Then, when opening Filemaker, upon clicking on host,the files being shared from that host do not come up in the dialogue. Does the swicth over o AOL-link change some other configuration setting that I'm not aware of? Any other ideas? Thanks.

Currently we are networking fm pro 4.1 on an iMac, a iBook, and a PC. We are connected trhough ethernet using TCP/IP. We also need to connect to the internet using PPP from time to time on all the different computers. Our trouble is that inorder to make this work we have to switch tcp/ip from ethernet to PPP inorder to dial up and get connected. By doing this we loose our connection networking within our office and are forced to restart FM Pro. Is there a easy solution to this problem, or what should I do to fix this problem?

We have installed a solution that makes use of some heavy calculations to figure out time intervals. The solution runs on FileMaker Server 5. The network that the files are on is rather large, and they are getting unacceptable speed problems. For instance, filling in a row of fields in a portal is taking on the order of two minutes, whereas filling it in locally (files opened on local hard drive) or on a smaller network, there is no time delay at all. They are on 100BaseT, as are our tests. One of the things I'm going to try to do is see if I can alter the calculations to work faster. But a clue to the degraded network speed was the IP addresses of the server and th…

I am my own self-taught network builder and administrator. I have 8 copies of FM on Ethernet via Appletalk and have FileMaker Pro Server 3.0. I would like to add a Windows machine via TCP to the same network. It appears I need to give and address to the server, but I cannot find a lot of information. Can I make up a number?? Can I steal one from my IP since my local network is not online? Is ther more to the connection than this? Thanks for the help.

I run a small Mac network using FM4 and TCP/IP and would like to connect a PC laptop to it. But although your'e supposed to be able to find Hosts on the PC I get a blank box. Checking with the Windows 98 Help, Network Troubleshooting I'm told to contact my network supervisor ?. Can anyone tell me the settings I'd need to configure this machine. I've used TCP/IP address 192.168.0.x and the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 but what are bindings?