Hi all:

If you look at the posts from Chopper, Lucky and myself (stanley) from the past two weeks, you'll see that there has suddenly been a spate of problems with FM Server on networks where at least one user is running Jaguar and the server is running an earlier Mac OS (either 8.6 or 9). I was wondering if anyone else has noticed erratic behavior of this sort with a similar setup, and if anyone had any thoughts or knowledge regarding Jaguar perhaps doing something strange on a TCP/IP network, which might cause some kind of interference.

Of course, I may be drawing a false conclusion from those three posts, but I've been having a major problem with one client (who has a single new Jaguar machine) but no problems with the other (running the exact same system, but no Jaguar machines.)

Thanks in advance,

Stanley

Hmm, I have 5 FM Servers running on OS 9.04 and 6 FM clients on Jaguar, 2 on Panther and I have not noticed any odd behavior. I also have 9 more FM clients on OS 9.22 and I do not see any difference between those and the OS X machines.

Kurt:

Do any of your solutions involve large image archives?

I'm flailing in the dark here, so I'm not sure what information I'm looking for - I'm following clues like Sam Spade in the Maltese Falcon (without the ability to roll a cigarette with one hand) - but I'm beginning to think that large JPEGs might have something to do with it.

Again, just a guess, but thanks for the input - I guess I'm running an informal poll here...

-Stanley

Oops... As I noted in the other post, I mis-spoke. It's not "Jaguar" clients, but "Panther" clients. The problems I speak of seem to come when a 10.3 Panther user logs into the FileMaker Server environment.

Kurt has pointed toward FileMaker Server 5.5v4 as an issue - I'm running 5.5v1, and maybe that's something I should fix, but I've just been to the FileMaker site, and can't see where I'd find the upgrade... so, again, I'm at a loss. Then again, I'm working on this at 5 in the morning...

thanks all for any help (this is killing me, really)

-Stanley

Yes, our solutions do have large image archives. In fact one entire server is dedicated to the image archives. We only store references to the images however, both a high and low res JPEG linked to a record in the DB. We have more than 80 image archive DBs and each contains anywhere between 3,000 - 50,000 image records.

We are running FMS 5.5v1 on Mac OS 9.04 (very stripped down to just the essential extensions and control panels).

Just to clarify, FMS 5.5v1 is the "latest version" for MacOS 9. If you're using MacOS X you should definately be using 5.5v4 or later.