Does External Server Authentication require any particular processes in order to work correctly?

Sometime between last night and this morning, it just stopped working on my server, users could no longer log in with external accounts... everything else was fine, and restarting the server-computer (FMPS and the OD Server used for authentication are on the same machine) got it working again. The only cause for the problem I can think of & haven't eliminated is some process crashing & not restarting. But I don't know what exactly to look for.

Thanks.

FMPS and the OD Server used for authentication are on the same machine)

That's certainly not a Best Practice.

OD can be particular and it can at times simply fail to sync.

I'd recommend you take a look at the Server External Authentication White paper from FMI.

Steven

In another post you mentioned that you'd helped write a technical brief on External Server Authentication for FMS9. But on Filemaker's web site I can only find the FMS8 version. Do you have a link to the FMS9 one? We can't afford to buy another server, unfortunately, but still, it's a document I'm interested in reading.

Let me look and see. If not, email me and I'll send it to you.

Steven