I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I have one dedicated server that runs FM server 5.0. Through a hub 3 Imacs and a PC are connected on this server. Two Imacs and the PC work well. One Imac is terribly slow... I tried everything.

- Checked the ethernet connection of the Imac but speed is good with other tasks (internet, copying files from other computers etc.)

- Checked filemakers settings and used the same as the other Imacs.

- Reinstalled everything from scratch (including a new installation of Os9)

- Assigned more Ram to filemaker on the problem mac

- Settings are TCP/IP on the problem mac

It really looks like there is a local problem with this one Imac and not with the ethernet connection. Please help :

I must say, that FileMaker is not very strong and robust in TCP/IP networking. I’ve learned lesson in last days.

I have 2 development PC machines and they do all sort of things. For example they do imitate remote access for developing purposes, so I am changing machines IP quite often.

One machine is like server and the other is like FM client. Or the other way around.

Last week one machine stopped serving the FM files to the other. Everything else was working OK. After numerous sleepless nights I’ve found, that ISDN software installed one extra Network and Dial-up Connection into machine (PPP over ISDN). Because of that, FileMaker from this machine is not visible on the FM client on second machine. Software is from company AVM (Berlin) and it is called Fritz! When I disabled this software, FM works again. What is bad in FM?

FileMaker is attaching to any network service without telling anyone. In this case it should ask. It should also work with 2 or more networking cards.

FileMaker Inc, please do something about that.

Maybe you have some networking leftover in your machine.