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?

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, 200916 yr by Guest
Added section about FM4

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.

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