External authentication.. is really possible ?

[Cobain]

Dear all,

I'm going sligthy mad ...

My Net

- Win 2003 SBS ( Domain Controller ) with OU

- Win 2003 Web Edition for FM server 7

External authentication is set on Filemaker Server and the domain

groups names are FMSAdmin and FMSUser.

In FMSUser there are Domain Users as member (30 users).

In FMSAdmin there are 3 users.

Filemaker open files only for FMSAdmin and only for 2 FMSUsers.

Other connection are not allowed

This messge appaire in Filemaker when other users try to open files

"do not have privilege to continue this operation".

I have read External Authentication guide and I've match everything.

What do you think about this ?

Thanks a lot.

[Wim Decorte]

2 things:

- you're violating the "web edition" license by installing FMS on it. Legally it can only act as a web server.

- "groups in groups" doesn't work too well in FMS7, it's fixed in FMS8. For your setup, add all the domain users individually to the FMSusers group and things should work.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Just to amplify on what Wim said, I believe you would have been better served by using Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition. It's the one certified, and I have had no issues with it at all. OTOH, every other combination or flavor of OS that I have seen where FMS7 or FMS7A was installed experienced some sort of difficulty.

Steven