bernriegeth

You wrote: Basically you need the pw to the "Admin" account listed in your list. Well, that's exactly the problem I tried to explain - I don't have this PW of the "Admin" account as the responsible person has left. I only have the external accounts. Probably we need some sort of password cracker for Filemaker....

I didn't manage to attach a screenshot, but I can open a FM database with my account (member of fmsadmin), go to Security and lookup the accounts. It says: Admin - Filemaker - full access fmsadmin - external server - full access fmsuser - external server - data access I can add another admin account, but then I'm prompted for a password and my account is not permitted to save this change.

Thanks for reply. I already tried opening a file as an OD user in fsadmin group (this group has full privileges) - choose - > security -> add new local user with full privileges -> but the system does not accept my OD account for this change. We're running FMS 11.0.3.

Hi I received the task for a Filemaker 11 migration without having worked with this system before. The databases are running on a Filemaker Server Advanced 11 whith external authentication to our OD, which is running on a Mac OS X Server (SnowLeopard). The aim is to migrate the biggest filemaker database to another system, but to migrate the smaller databases as local files to a Windows System with local users only. The latter is the problem. I have full admin rights on the Mac OS X Server as well as on the OD, but I don't have the local filemaker account data (because the responsible person has left). I'm logged into the Admin Console with an account which is member of the fmsadmin group. But I don't get managed to login to the fp7 files with a local FM account. I tried different versions: closing down the database, copying over the fp7 file to another Mac or to a Windows system. Within the Admin Console I cannot find any point for inserting new local users or changing passwords.There is only the possibility to insert an admingroup. So my question is: how can I gain local admin access to the fp7-Files when only knowing the credentials of the OD accounts? Bernhard