Hello,

I am trying to set up a peer to peer network with FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advance in Windows XP. I know that this version is limited to 5 clients.

On the host, I have granted full access in privileges for filemaker network and also enabled sharing with TCP/IP also given network access to "All users".

When I goto a client computer and try to access through "Open Remote" and type in the IP and file name, I get an error message: "File Name" could not be opened. The host's capacity was exceeded, try again later.

This is while NO one or clients are accessing the file, just the host has it opened on his computer.

I cannot figure out why?

Please help me.

Thanks

Instead of typing the file name in, try and actually ... find it in the open remote window.

READ POST #4 ----> ops, nevermind. I think I figured it out.

did not make accounts and passwords for clients.

another thing, if the host computer user need to access the database file on the host computer, can he just edit/access/read/add/delete records on the database which is open and running for clients or the host computer is not allowed to do anything with that database file?

Edited January 5, 200719 yr by Guest

No, the host can do whatever they want as long as the file remains open.

ops, seems like I talked too soon.

Today, when I asked more than one person to login, the first person opened the file no problem, but after that I get same error message:"File Name" could not be opened. The host's capacity was exceeded, try again later.

Also, under host computer I see that only one person is logged in. Yes, it is FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced and I have 5 accounts created with full access.

Thanks

Number of files in the solution?

Is each copy of FIleMaker Pro correctly installed with its own installation code?

Are you accessing through Open-->Remote?

Steven

just one file.

Yes, each copy has its own code, got 5 actually.

Yes accessing thru Open-->Remote

I also enabled IWP and it works fine, can open database on all computers.

Still get the same error with filemaker network, even when all IWP members have logged off....

I dont have an answer for you but i did have the same problem running IWP in 8.0. I would get the error you described and when i looked in the advanced tab of the IWP setup it showed i had 0 max connections. Since i had 8.5 already just not installed i installed that hoping it would fix it... boy did it ever ...now it shows 360 max connections. I think some of this is due to server/network limitations and not the license limitation but I don't know for sure

It's possible it could be a Windows Firewall Issue.