Chris_Giles

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.

Yes, sorely tempted to rip the iMac out of the office and bring it home to use as the server!

I have managed to ping the ADSL connected PC's IP address from a remote PC on a dial-up connection

Thanks for the tip. Excuse my ignorance on these matters but I've only just got round to using XP after 18 happy years on Macs. Where exactly do I find Port 5003 and how do I check if it is open? The modem is an Alcatel Speedtouch USB.

I have developed a suite of filemaker databases which I now need to share to users over TCP/IP. All files have been set to multi-user, FMPro 6 has been set to use TCP/IP and the host has an ADSL connnection on a Windows XP machine. On starting the testing, I just cannot access the files from another PC! I have the laptop connected to the internet on a dial-up connection. On opening FMPro (also TCP/IP enabled) I go to specify host, type in the IP address of the host - then nothing! A user also tried entering the IP over his cable ADSL connected PC running Win98 with the same result. As far as I know, this should work - but how? Web companion just won't work for this solution, too many calculations etc. However, when I tested a simple file using web companion, that worked. Also tried with and without the personal firewall option on the internet connection settings. Any ideas?