Newbies Internal Systems Posted November 29, 2000 Newbies Share Posted November 29, 2000 I have just installed FileMaker Pro Server v5 on a Windows 2000 server for the first time. It appears to install o.k. but when I try to start the service it returns as service specific error code -21 Can anyone help please ? Many thanks. Seb Jenkins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted November 29, 2000 Share Posted November 29, 2000 FileMaker specifically advises *against* running the 4.1 and 5.0 client as a service under NT. Refer to The FileMaker TechInfo Article #105642 http://www.filemaker.com/support/techinfo.html Check the article out, it may have been recently updated. In part it said... "FileMaker Inc. Technical Support has heard from people who are running FileMaker as a service with only minor feature failures. The Send Mail script step and other features will return error messages because they are dependent on Windows settings which are just not available until someone logs in. However, we have also heard from customers who experience more serious crashing and stability issues. Again, FileMaker Pro 5 / 4.0 is not designed or supported as a service on Windows NT." This issue comes up regularly. Do a forum search for "service". The solution is not to lady canine to FileMaker to make it run as a service, complain to Microsoft that their server software is crippled until somebody sits at the console and logs in. [This message has been edited by Vaughan (edited November 29, 2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted November 30, 2000 Share Posted November 30, 2000 quote: Originally posted by Internal Systems: I have just installed FileMaker Pro Server v5 on a Windows 2000 server for the first time. It appears to install o.k. but when I try to start the service it returns as service specific error code -21 Can anyone help please ? Many thanks. Seb Jenkins Vaughan, this is Server issue, not the Client. FYI, Windows Server is not application, only Service. Anyway, I saw this also on HP HW and NT4. The whole server MUST be restarted and then FM server starts OK. If the FM service was stopped, it could not be restarted! On our own HW, the same runs OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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