Serving files to internet

[cosmo145]

Please help,

I am trying to create a web-based database for my company and have hit a wall. We have two systems (FM Pro 6 Unlimited and FM Server 5.5) and I am trying to get them to work togther. There is a dedicated Mac OS X machine running FM Pro 6 in the "DMZ" and there is a dedicated Mac OS Xserver running FM Server 5.5 (to host the files). The Server is running inside my companies intranet and the FM Pro 6 machine is serving web pages to the internet. The problem is that I am trying to get the FM Pro 6 machine to "see" the hosted files from the Server machine inside our intranet (of course it can't) so that they can be posted to the web. How can this be done, or can it? I have thought about a VPN client running on the FM Pro 6 machine to let it "see" inside our intranet so that the files can be seen. This is my first database as well as my first posting so I am a newbie and really need some help. Thank you for ANY help.

[Anatoli]

FM works on port 5003. There have to be connection between the server and client on that port. Open that port in your network between those two IP's.

[cosmo145]

Thank you very much for your reply. This may be a stupid question but I have never done anything like this before, but how do I do that? Do I open up the "firewall" on my company's intranet? For example, the FM Pro 6 Unlimited machine runs at IP 65.161.187.15 (outside my company's intranet- the "DMZ") and the Server 5.5 machine (inside my company's intranet) runs at IP 10.0.3.82. Please forgive me if this is a dumb question, but like I said I am a newbie to the networking area.

[Garry Claridge]

Your Router/Firewall will be able to do "Port Mapping". This is where you redirect port 5003 requests to "10.0.3.82". You may even be able to allow only 65.161.187.15 to pass requests through that port.

All the best.

Garry

[cosmo145]

Thanks for All the help. I will try the solution monday at work. You guys are the best!

[cosmo145]

One last question, please.

After I get the "port mapping" completed (whereby all requests coming to port 5003 are routed to 10.0.3.82 on my company's intranet) all I will have to do to get the FM Pro 6 Unlimited machine (the machine at 65.161.187.15 "outside" my company's intranet - currently unable to "see" the Server 5.5 machine because it is inside my company's intranet) to open a file being served by the Server 5.5 machine is go to file -> open -> specify host (i.e. 10.0.3.82) and the files being served by the Server 5.5 machine will be listed (provided FM Pro is currently executing on 65.161.187.15)? I quess I was just wondering how the FM Pro 6 machine "looks" for a host. Thank you all for your help.

[Garry Claridge]

You will have to go to "Hosts" as you described, however the IP you use will be the WAN IP for the router/firewall. For example, it may be "65.161.187.10".

Your Network administrator will have to tell you the address.

Good Luck.

Garry