FM Server and Jaguar clients

[stanley]

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

[Kurt Knippel]

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.

[stanley]

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

[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

[Kurt Knippel]

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).

[Vaughan]

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.