Yesterday, we had a power outage which killed the computer that hosted my FM Server. We installed it on another machine and put the databases (luckily I had them backed up on a zip disk) into the FM Server directory. Unfortunately, we can't seem to figure out why these databases aren't showing up on the client's host listing. Any ideas? Did we put them in the wrong place? Are there some settings that aren't set correctly?

Thanks in advance

I've been playing with it and when I assign it as a Multi-User (under File>Sharing), it gives the following error, "Files cannot currently be shared with FileMaker networking because of a network error (10048)." Any ideas at all?

Thanks,

dcecil

Is the host not showing up at all, or is the Host server being displayed with no databases underneath it?

That's correct, the host is showing up, but no databases.

Just a quick check

- FM Server 5.5 will serve DBs in the same directory as the app (and 1 folder down) so long as the app and all your DBs are in the same directory it should find them. Check this is so.

But judging by the error message there is a problem elsewhere. The error 10048 is

"Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. (WSAEADDRINUSE)"

When does this error appear? Or does it only occur when trying to serve the DB? if so can the DBs be shared peer-to-peer?

This particular problem however is Windows specific and doesn't occur for the Mac, as such i've never come across it before. However, i'd suggest checking that your new machine's IP address doesn't conflict with anything else on the network (I'd recommend having a fixed IP address if you don't already). Also try setting the files to Multi-user on another machine, as this sounds like a computer/network problem rather than a FileMaker setup problem.

Please post the results of any of these suggestions or the solution if the problem has gone away, as i'd like to know what the problem was