Remote Admin - ports and firewall

[lloyd12]

If I try to administer our server from outside the network using the FM Server Admin Console, it does not connect. Usually a long delay and no message. Occasionally a message "Could not connect to Server...". Have tried accessing it from different computers - same problem.

So I wondered if my firewall settings are OK.

I can open the database remotely from FMP7 computers outside our network so I know port 5003 is successfully open and allowing traffic for that.

I read in the documentation (see below) that ports 50003, 50006 and 25003 are also used by FM server, but I was not quite clear. Do some or all of them have to be open for remote admin?

Thanks in advance for any help.

My setup: FMS7 on Win2000 Server

> From FMS Admin Guide (page 37)

>

> Port usage and remote administrationFileMaker Server uses the following

> ports:

> 5003 - FileMaker Server

> See the FMS Read Me.pdf - FileMaker Server Helper service (Windows) or

> daemon (Mac OS)

> 25003 - FileMaker Server as the default AdminAuxPort value

>

>

>> From FMS ReadMe (page 2)

>

> 5. FileMaker Server Port Numbers. FileMaker Server uses three important

> ports for transmitting information.

>

[FMDuck]

I'm having the same problem accessing Server 7 on a Mac OSX machine, but I can't get in for remote admin OR as a user. So far I've only opened port 5003. As I recall from a couple years ago with 5.5 server, that was all that was required.

Did you find out what the problem was?