Hi guys, hope you loved my topic :

Very strange, on one PC, when i try to open the .fp7 file, i get the error filemaker could not share the file, another user on this computer is already using FM Pro to share this file bla bla bla..

But... there's not anyone - the message doesn't come up on any other PC's - and usually doesnt come up on this one. File sharing is turned off under Edit -- Sharing -- FM Network, IWP and ODBC.

It's a 3 file network solution - 2 backend, 1 front end - backends are hosted on FMS. I'm not even trying to host anything on the client side and this particular thing has to run unattended and theres no way to avoid the stupid message - so it halts my ******* script.

Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

~Genx

Using a licence number several times???

--sd

.. i wish it was that simple - but a) that gives you a different error anyway - it gives you: license key conflict .. another user is already using this ... blah blah blah.

Anyway, swapping the file to a more recent version fixed it - not sure - maybe it corrupted or something.

Yes thats right I have seen this under fm5.0 when that iMac OS8.5 had an extension conflicting with multipage printjobs, but that was ages ago well 5-6 years approx.

--sd

Hi Genx,

What did you do to fix it? I get a similar error on a standalone machine using FMP8A.

Cheers

Jalz

Edited August 7, 200619 yr by Guest

I swapped for a more recent version of the file - like i said though, it started very oddly - it just happened - and it wasn't happening before.

And you were opening the file through FM's "open remote", right? Not directly with "open..." from a shared folder somewhere?

... the front end is local not hosted, the backend is on FMS on the server .. being hosted by FMS, all interaction is through remote file