I'm currently running FileMaker Server Advanced 11 on Windows Server 2003. We're trying to move to an X-Server. I've got OS X 10.5 installed and FileMaker 11 Server Advanced along with it. All of that went smoothly.

I then closed down all of the files on the Windows server and proceeded to copy them over the network to my new server. They show up in my new FM admin as expected, but when I try and open them nothing happens. Nothing. No disk activity. The status doesn't change. No spinning wheel. Nothing. I try open all, nothing. I try to open 1 at a time. Nothing.

The sample file opens and closes just fine. Just not the ones I copied over. Any information on why this might be happening would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

First make sure that the files were copied from the windows box correctly; they were closed before stopping the service to ensure they are not corrupted. (It's best to backup the live files, then copy the backups to ensure the files are good.)

Use the Remote Admin tool to upload the files to the server, this ensures the correct permissions are set.

Apart from that, what do the logs say?

Yup, I always close down files and back them up before I move them around.

What it came down to was the fmsadmin user not being added to the files when I copied them over. All I had to do was add that to the security for all of the FM files and they loaded up just fine.

I've never had to do anything like that on Windows servers, though. I've always just moved the files over and loaded them. I guess the permissions just differ enough that OSX wasn't able to automatically set that.

Anyway, thanks for the response!

What it came down to was the fmsadmin user not being added to the files when I copied them over. All I had to do was add that to the security for all of the FM files and they loaded up just fine.

I've started using the remote admin console to upload files. The permissions are important and they differ between OSs. Also the method of setting privileges differes between OSs (even between versions of Mac OS X) and for me it's faster to leave it to the console to do it right first time rather than me learn and remember the different processes.