IWP cant start - FMPA10 port conflict on Vista

[PC Heart]

I have Filemaker Pro 10 Advanced installed on Windows Vista Business - but I cannot share databases with IWP due to port conflicts.

'netstat -an' shows that the ports I am trying to use are available.

I can use netcat to bind listeners to the port I am trying to use, so the port is definitely available.

I then added the Filemaker directories to my AV exclusion set, added the FileMaker and FileMakerWebPublishing exes as 'web browser' to my AV setup, with 'exclude' from protocol checking.

Finally I tried with the firewall, antivirus and antispyware disabled. Still no joy.

The same FM Pro Advanced 10 install on a windows XP (same antivirus) works fine without having to have done all this hoop jumping.

Any ideas as to where to start?

[PC Heart]

Hmm - thinking more on this, I did have a FM Pro 10 (not advanced) Trial on this Vista box, upon which the IWP *did* work.

I wonder if there are any registry entries pertaining to the trial that is stopping the IWP working on the bought copy FM Pro 10 Advanced

I still have a copy of FM Pro 4 ( Grins ), so I installed this on my machine and lo and behold - FM4 can share databases on this machine on the port I wanted to use.

I guess I'll call Filemaker themselves and see if there is a reason for FM 10 Pro Advanced behaviour.

Edited February 18, 2009 by Guest
Added section about FM4

[PC Heart]

The AV system is ESET. With ESET disabled (disabled the service and restarted) FM Pro 10 works fine. With ESET re-enabled but the components turned off; it does not work - so ESET does not switch off the bit that is messing up this feature.

Also managed to break FM 10 Pro Adv in the process of elimination - so now re-installing it clean,with no AV present.

[PC Heart]

Bah - now, even after uninstalling ESET, FM Pro Advanced, Bonjour and the ODBC drivers, restarting, reinstalling FM Pro Advanced, Bonjour and the ODBC drivers - now I get crashes

FM Pro Adv - fine

Turn on FM Sharing - fine

Turn on ODBC sharing - fine

Turn on IWP - errors saying IWP cannot be started

Turn on IWP again; says its started, but as soon as you close the dialogue - Filemaker has stopped responding

Also tried with IWP 10.0v1a

Now leaving this issue until my sanity returns