Filemaker 7 Pro Sharing Issue

[gman33]

Hi

New to the forum and very new to FM7. As most people here, I was asked to solve a problem but stuck

Our HR group uses the Filemaker Recruiter DB and have used the sharing option for a while, without problems, with the DB stored on a shared network drive(Win2000 server)...and I now know that this is not great to do.

The issue is that all of a sudden, if a new host opens the file, and the other users use the open remote function, they get a message stating that the account and password they entered can not open the file. However, if they are the host and enter in the same username/password, they have no issues.

I checked that sharing was on and everything seemed to be fine.

Any thoughts on this? We are planning on moving this DB to a stand-alone PC that will be used for just FM

Thanks for the help...hope this makes sense.

[Leb i Sol]

"We are planning on moving this DB to a stand-alone PC that will be used for just FM"

Yap, this would your best bet or closest to 'dedicated sharing' other than using the fm server. Make sure your 'server' or better said Host machine has pleanty of RAM and free disk space.

It is possible that right now you are having issues due to networking and perhaps host machine having name/IP resolution issues.

post some more about your network setup....OS,Firewalls. It also could be that the sharing is not setup on the host machine as it shoudl be.

All the best!

[gman33]

Thank you for the reply

The server is Windows 2000 server and the host PCs are Windows 2000 Pro. The FM file is on a standard File share with no issues with other access rights.

I checked the file and the file sharing is on for all users. When logging in, username and password is required.

For some reason, when the host has the file open, no one else can open it up..not even guest.

Can the file sharing portion get corrupted? I read that there is issues with passwords in FM...they are just using their first names as passwords.

Thanks again

[Ender]

Our HR group uses the Filemaker Recruiter DB and have used the sharing option for a while, without problems, with the DB stored on a shared network drive(Win2000 server)...and I now know that this is not great to do.

FileMaker files are not meant to be shared in this manner. It is a common cause of corruption.

Move the files to a dedicated machine for FileMaker hosting, with no OS level file sharing. Use FileMaker's Sharing functionality and have the other clients connect via "Open Remote...". If you still have trouble in this configuration, let us know.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

These files sound as if they are toasted. The likely reason is that they were set up wrong.

You may have to recover them, export the data, and reimport the data into a clean copy of Recruiter.

Who set this thing up this way?

Steven

[gman33]

Thank you everyone for the response. We outsource our IT (first mistake) and they set it up this way. I am sure no research was done. If I go this route, the users made quite a few modifications to the layout of the screens. Is there any way to export these as well?

Thanks again

[gman33]

I did copy the FM file over to the local user's PC and had the other users try to access via remote, but still the same problem. So what I will do is export/import into a fresh install, however, they are concerned with the layouts

Thanks again...I appreciate it

[Steven H. Blackwell]

If I go this route, the users made quite a few modifications to the layout of the screens. Is there any way to export these as well?

No.

Also, maybe tell the IT contractor to read the Server White papers and tech briefs on the FMI web site.

Steven

[Leb i Sol]

Also, maybe tell the IT contractor to read the Server White papers and tech briefs on the FMI web site.

Steven

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I was assuming we are all talking FM sharing not NTFS.

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