send AppleScript commands to FileMaker Pro on remote system

November 27, 200619 yr

I am writing a script to tell a remote machine running FileMaker Pro to run a FileMaker script.

set remMachine to "eppc://" & userName & ":" & pasword & "@" & ipNumber

tell application "FileMaker Pro" --of machine remMachine

   do script FileMaker script "Some-Script"

end tell

Note that of machine remMachine is commented out. If I uncomment out that part of the command I get an error when I try to compile the script...

Sytax Error: Expected end of line but found “script”.

How do I make this script work? Thank you.

November 28, 200619 yr

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Here's what more playing today has shown me:

While the code I previously posted fails as I described, this version works...

tell application "FileMaker Pro" of machine "eppc://USER:[email protected]"

   do script FileMaker script "Some-Script"

end tell

Encouraging, except that 'd rather the IP address to be calculated and not hard-coded.

For now I think I will hard-code the possible IP addresses and then run the version based on some if-then stuff. But I'd like to know why my original idea is broke. It is probably simple problem.