Cross Platform - Error Message - not enough room on disk to complete operation

[Peter B]

[color:red]Error message: There is not enough room on the disk to complete this operation. Make more room on the disk. then try again.

Filemaker Server Advanced is running on a Mac and PCs connect to it using a PC Windows Server 2003 where everyone has dumb terminals and login using passwords to gain access, then launch the application from the Windows Server.

The Macs connecting to Filemaker Server have no problems whatsoever. But periodically someone on the PC side gets the above error message. There is 200GB of space on the Filemaker Server so I don't think it's that.

Anyone have any ideas

Thanks

Peter

[Søren Dyhr]

This hasn't IMHO anything to do with server, otherwise would mac users receive similar messages, it must be the client side where there is a problem with:

http://www.blackviper.com/AskBV/XP17.htm

--sd

[Peter B]

So, if it's a client side on the PCs, where?

With the applications being launched from the Windows Server could it be the way the Windows Server is set up or write permissions . Or could it have something to do with the PCs being on a different subnet mask or the speed of the server (The PC Windows Server has loads of hard drive space!) .

This is a problem that has only started to happen over the last couple of months and I have been running Filemaker server for 3 years without any problems.

I need more thoughts please

Thanks

Peter

[Søren Dyhr]

Why do you think it's a filemaker problem??? You can't run a client version of filemaker without available memory on the users workstation!

No the hard disks where the client version reside, have gone fragmented or so leaving too little space for the swapping, could be something pretty banal like the user have received a lot of attachments to mails filling up the hard-drive in an inconvenient way seen from his/her operating-system's POV.

I've this message showing up on machines which never ever have been running filemaker, oftentimes when large print-jobs are attempted.

--sd

[Peter B]

The error message has appeared on 5 different PCs terminals at separate times over the last week and all of them have use filemaker before without problems.

I don't think the problem is within Filemaker but it is the only program that is flashing up the error message. When it happens it stops users from entering data and they can loose data that has been just typed in (before it had the chance to automatically save)

I know it is difficult for you to guess by the information to hand and I do appreciate your help.

Any more thoughts?

Thanks again

Peter

[Søren Dyhr]

As I said using filemaker is going to use some memory, even though the data reside on server are the control of the scripting and the evaluation of the calc'fields happening locally where trojan horse and other shenanigans might hog valuable resources. How fit are each of the workstations actually, have you scrutinized thier settings like the Blackviper side suggests you do. Have the employees a bad habit of keeping a lot of attachments to their recieved mails etc.

Perhaps it would be beneficial to look at how slimmed the hit on the local memory could get. If your solution have a lot of unstored fields as well as summary fields shown on almost every layout you turn to, and especailly if your layouts exhibit a notion of minoric horror vacui will it indeed be a burden locally.

You should read Debi Fuchs whitepaper on served solutions where she calculates roundtrips etc.

--sd