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When closing the laptop or when the laptop goes to sleep Filemaker doesn't find it's connection anymore.

It works fine on the desktops but the laptops show the error message: "communication with the host was interrupted and could not be re-established. (-3284)".

Can you tell me if using Fm server 8 resolves this problem? Other programs like the organizer calendar don't have this connection problem, when you open your laptop the connection is immediately re-established.

Thank you.

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Are you sure you've got your terms straight? I.e. sleep v.s. monitor turning off vs. hibernation.

The monitor turning off will do nothing, sleep im not sure, but hibernation will cut off the network connection, filemaker is constantly communicating with the server, so when it cant this happens... The calander your talking about likely doesn't need a constantly active connection and either syncs every few minutes with the server or else just when changes are made.

~Genx

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It's sleep and closing the laptop without turning it off.

Is there a way to re-establish automatically the connection?

Through apple script or so?

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Putting the machine to sleep with a FMP database open could possibly corrupt the database! Not a good idea at all!

Forget trying to re-connect to the database; discourage the users from putting the machine to sleep when FileMker pro is running. Even better, disable sleep in the system preferences control panels.

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When you close a laptop and put it to sleep, the power to the network interface is cut, so any persistent connection is going to be lost. The only way to reconnect is to log in again.

I don't think putting client machines to sleep is a corruption problem if they're connected to a host (peer to peer or server) . Putting the host to sleep while serving files on the other hand...

If your users really want to put their computers to sleep, make them use a web connection to the DB, since that's not a persistent connection.

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OK - old thread but perhaps that makes my question relevant -

Is the "snooze and you lose the server" still a quality of version 8? Appletalk is so nice - server connections are restored - even switches between airport and hard ethernet if one or the other can't be found. Our 5.5 server/client setup is not nearly as sweet.

BTW, my lap is set not to sleep and as such the problem is much reduced.

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