Strange IP address

[Martin Brändle]

Following situation:

FM7 Pro on Windows 2000, FM7 Server Advanced on Mac OS X Server, both machines in the same subnet.

When doing an "Open Remote ...", "Local hosts", the correct name of the server, but a wrong IP address: 254.128.0.0, is shown (or fmnet://254.128.0.0/ ). No databases are displayed in the right column of the Open Remote dialog.

With a second try of "Open Remote ...", everything works as expected: server name and IP address are correct, all hosted databases are displayed and can be opened.

With FM7 Pro on OS X client, one directly gets the right server IP address and all databases are displayed.

It seems that something goes wrong when FM7 Pro sends a broadcast to find local servers. Has anybody experienced the same behaviour? Any explanation? Bug?

Thanks for answers,

Martin

[dkemme]

How are your machines getting IP addresses, do you have a router passing out the info automatically, could you have an error in assigning IP numbers...? Consider posting this on the network portion of this website.

[Martin Brändle]

Both machines have entries in the DNS and their network settings should be configured correctly.

Martin