Reed's response is prescient. You cannot run the SAT Tool thru a NAT firewall. And the message you got is exactly the error message generated when you try to do that.

VPN into the network, then make the connection using the NAT address.

HTH

Steven

Edited October 5, 200520 yr by Guest

Do you have some kind of firewall turned on?

Whoops. Meant to reply but apparently edited the OP's message. I'll figure this out some day. Gist of the question was that he was getting a lost connection message when trying a remote connection with the SAT Tool.

Steven

This can't be the problem, as I'm inside my own network when I'm attempting this - there is no firewall between me and the server in this case.

Check to be sure that the SAT Tool and the Server version are both the latest ones for FileMaker Server 7, namely 7.0v3.

Steven

7.0v3, server and server admin both. I actually re-installed the server admin tool and updated, just to be sure.

The only other thing that comes to mind is to check to be sure that the target FMS Server daemon allows for remote administration via the SAT Tool. On the local Server CPU, launch the SAT Tool and check.

HTH

Steven

I am having this same issue. I had to reinstall FMS7 this week on two different Xserves and after installing the v3 updater, I was no longer able to connect (locally) to FMS7 through the SAT.

I went back to my software archives and installed the v2 updater after reinstalling and I was able to connect. I then installed teh v3 update again, but once again, the v3 update broke something and I was no longer able to connect. Reinstalled FMS7 and ran the updates. Same thing.

I ended up updating to FMS 7v2 so I could still connect using the SAT. There is no firewall, and these connections are local to the machine. Any ideas?