FMPro 10 on Win7 in Fusion virtualization does not see hosted databases

[ericmurphy]

I'm running FMPro 10 v.3 under Win7 virtualized via VMWare Fusion on OS X 10.6.3. From Filemaker Pro, I can see other computers hosting databases (both Filemaker Pro clients hosting shared files and FMServer hosting files), but I can't actually see the files being hosted. I've turned off the Windows firewall, set Fusion networking to Bridge Mode rather than NAT mode, etc. I can ping to the server that's running FMServer and can see the directories in which the hosted files are residing, so it's not a connectivity issue.

I'm trying to think of anything else that could be interfering with my ability to connect to those hosted files, but I'm drawing a blank. Is FMPro just not supported on Win7 running on VMWare fusion?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

This sounds as if it might be a defective Server.PEM file. See thefmkb.com/5493 to see if there are any clues. You may need to find a good Server.PEM file and copy it to your FileMaker Pro installation.

Steven

[ericmurphy]

Thanks; that did the trick. All I had to do was uninstall FMPro from the desktop, set the system clock back to sometime in 2008, reinstall, and I was good to go.

The only hard part was preventing the system clock from resetting in mid-install via NTP. But I just kept an eye on it, and it seemed to work fine.