Help with hosts

[gulbrads]

I am a database (SQL and Access) person who is trying to figure out FileMaker Pro to help my sister's company out. She has a NT server with FM Server on it, though it also has FM Pro installed on it. About 10 PC/Macs with FM Pro 5 on them that can see existing hosts (6 of them) that are stored on the Server. Some of these hosts are single-user, some are multi-user, but regardless users can see them all.

Question is, I want to add another one and having a darned hard time of it. I tried creating one on the server as single-user and it didn't show up on the hosts list on user PCs. Tried creating one on the server as multi-user and got the following message: "FileMaker cannot host a file because of a network error. Files marked as Multi-User will not be available over the network. (10048)" This seems a little bizarre to me since some of the existing files are multi-user and all users can see them just fine. This only happens when I try to create a new database. I made sure to save the new file in the same location as the existing ones (a shared folder in the FM Server folder) and gave it the same permissions as the existing ones.

Any help here would be wonderful!!

Danielle

[Kurt Knippel]

First of all **TURN OFF FILE SHARING**. This is a recipe for disaster and may be the very source of your problem.

Quit Filemaker Server. Now put all the DBs in a folder inside the Filemaker Server folder. Restart Filemaker Server and all DBs should be available.

From your Filemaker Pro clients open Filemaker, goto File menu -> Open File -> Hosts. It should then display the Server and the served databases.

Filemaker Server is a client-server DATABASE server and is not designed to serve the actual database files, only the data contained therein. This is why you do not want file sharing enabled and why you need to use the File menu -> Open File -> Hosts method.

Would you ever let your users directly access a SQL Server file via a shared volume?

[Dr. Logan]

Capt...

I dont think she meant "Shared Files" the way you took it. The shared folders she was speaking about was the folder the FM5 files share inside server. She is adding a new file to this "shared folder" and is encountering the 10048 error. The permissions she is speaking of is the password/group permissions.

[same inter-software nomenclature, different intra-software meanings...]

I have encountered the same problem and am stumped. It's as if FM is limiting the number of files that are being previewed on the network??? I started my problem by changing the file structure of 12 db's to allow me to use FM Servers backup features. After moving all the files into one folder, the network is only picking up 8 dbs?

Any other ideas as to what is going on?

Dr. Logan