Database hosted by server 11 on win7 not showing in pro client on Mac

[Henning Sannerhaugen]

I have 12 or so databases that I want to host with FM Server 11 on a Win7 machine. I've imported the databases through admin consol, and have also set security and sharing to read/write for all to the folder manually. But they still don't show up in the FM Pro 11 client on the MAC. I only see the correct server name.

The server.perm filesize on the MAC is 8kb, so it is present and not "blank"

Any good suggestions?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Port 5003 open on the MAcintosh and on the Windows machines?

Steven

[Henning Sannerhaugen]

After a while (on friday) I turned off both the win7 native firewall and the firewall in the router, thinking the same as you, but no luck. Does the MAC have an firewall in the OS (10.6.3), if so that's news to me? But I'm almost certain that it is a win7 permission/port problem, since when I installed FM pro client on the Windows machine, it found the served files at once.

XP network and security settings I could cope with, but the jungle of security setting, UAC and whatnot in Win7 leaves me baffled sometimes. Where could the problem be, when all firewalls have been disabled?

[Henning Sannerhaugen]

Update!

Got it working, it was the server.pem file on the client. Tried to install on another machine, grab the *.pem, no luck. Tried again with the date set back a year, BAM, Bob's your /* insert relative of choice */