My organization is cracking down on handing out public static IP address. I can get private static IP from them no problem. But another part of my organization already has a public static IP web server machine. If I install WSC on that machine, which outside users can access, and then install FMU on the private IP, will public users be allowed or denied access? The request will be coming from the webserver machine which is within the intranet so conceivably my FMU host machine would allow that computer access, yes, and then the web server would provide the generated HTML to the browser client? Or am I totally missing something. Quick reply much appreciated!

Thanks-

Courtney

To my understanding it is NOT necessary to give out the IP itself, you could register the IP of the FMU machine with a domain name and thus the connection would be to www.fmu.companyname.com or whatever.

I may be incorrect on this, so if someone else can chime in on this concept, that would be great!

If you are using private IPs, you are behind a firewall. And that has to have a public ip address. You can have your friewall forward any request on a certain port to a machine behind the firewall.

If your firewall's public ip is not static, you can register with dynip.com to have a mapping from fmp.mycompany.dynip.com to your firewall's ip addrress.

Ask your network admin.

Thank you both. As you can see, I'm not the strongest link in the chain when it comes to networking issues. Problem is my network guys don't support our FileMaker app, but we'll see what I can do with the info you've provided.

Please bear with me as I try and figure this out. My web server (with connector software) is not behind a firewall. It can "talk" to my FMU machine, which is behind a firewall? Both have static IP.

Thanks-

Courtney

it should work as you expect it, as long as things are setup properly on the web server side. You would give out the url to the webserver redirect pages (or however its setup), and it should 'just work'

Just wanted to update. We are putting both FMServer 5.5 and client running FMU 5.5 behind the firewall. The Web Server with WSC will be public. Then I am planning on opening only port 80 on FMU machine. Hopefully, this will work. I'll keep you all posted.