Hosts cant be seen unless i specify..help!

[dave2000]

Hi,

I have a problem that i cant seem to fix. We have 4 offices in our network and when i try to open the database files from another office... is says that certain databses cant be found.. there is nothing in the local hosts dialog box but if i specify the host and type in the dns name they all appear but users have to browse to the files every time they open one for the first time. How can i get around this problem? Is there some sort of startup script that can specify a host so filemaker knows where to look each time it starts up? (i do not have this problem in our central office as all the files show in the 'local host' and load up fine.

I would appreciate any help!

Thanks

Dave

[Ted S]

Dave,

Try making a desktop shortcut something like this:

fmp5://10.20.30.40/FileName.fp5

[Gabe]

I have a similar problem. I tried creating a shortcut like you said, but windows tells me the name is invalid. Do I need to add some kind of file type setting?