should be simple, I know

[pinocchio]

Hi people @ fmforums

I know this topic may be out of place, but it is related to a WAN IP problem I think, so ...

I'm running FMP 8.5 on OSX 10.3.9 and I want to share a database using IWP. What should guests type in the address field of their browsers? It is clearly not the local IP-address that FileMaker suggests in the IWP setup dialog!

And do I need to configure my AirPort Extreme in a certain way to let outside guests see the IWP startpage ?!?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards, pinocchio

[Vaughan]

"What should guests type in the address field of their browsers?"

Where are the guests: inside your LAN behind the router or outside, on the internet?

If there are on the outside internet, you probably need to set up port forwarding on your router.

[pinocchio]

thanks Vaughan

Guests are on the internet, far away from here.

By port forwarding, do you refer to the port 80 ?

Should the guests add the port number in the URL ?

[pinocchio]

Hi again Vaughan

It's done! -) success

I set up the portmapping on the Airport and added the port extension :80 at the end of the IP-URL in the browser address field, and bingo!

I searched the documentation very, very thorougly, but I did not see this mentioned anywhere. And the URL generated in the FM IWP setup dialog is a local URL, useless to anyone who want's to take their database to the web.

I think that's poor documentation!

Thanks again!