FileMaker and Windows XP

[Matt Klein]

Anyone know if FileMaker runs on Windows XP machines?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

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Originally posted by MattSBCNE:

Anyone know if FileMaker runs on Windows XP machines?

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FileMaker Pro 5.5 does run. Be sure that if you plan to do any networking with FIleMAker Server 5.5 requiring authentication that you are running XP Professional and NOT XP home.

HTH

Old Advance Man

[Anatoli]

Small question: what is the difference between Pro and Home XP?

Is the XP Home based on NT technology?

Thanks for any info.

Anatoli

[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: Anatoli ]

[dbhill]

From what I've read, XP home and Pro are both based on NT.

It is interesting to note that FileMaker will network fine on a peer-to-peer XP [Home] network. But as OAM remarked, for server authentication you need XP Pro. So a primary difference between Home and Pro is the networking capabilities.

~Dennis

[Anatoli]

So FM Server will not run on Workstation any more, or FM Server can still run on XP workstation but it must be XP Pro?

[SteveB]

What about running FM server on Windows 2000 with clients running on a mix of Win98SE and above? I'm about to start on this and I'm wondering if it will work.

Thanks. Steve

[Steven H. Blackwell]

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Originally posted by Anatoli:

Small question: what is the difference between Pro and Home XP?

Is the XP Home based on NT technology?

Thanks for any info.

Anatoli

[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: Anatoli ]

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A detailed explanation is on the Microsoft website. Both versions of XP are based on updates to the NT technology. XP Home is severely limited in its ability to network, and it can not log onto Windows servers.

HTH

Old Advance Man

[Steven H. Blackwell]

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Originally posted by Steveinvegas:

What about running FM server on Windows 2000 with clients running on a mix of Win98SE and above? I'm about to start on this and I'm wondering if it will work.

Thanks. Steve

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Certainly. You can run FileMaker Server 5.5 on Windows 2000 Server (do not run on Windows 2000 PE). Guests, using the TCP/IP protocol can connect from FileMaker Pro 5.5 on Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows 95 (except I wouldn't), Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 PE, and Windows NT 4 workstation. Be sure to run the brand new FMP 5.5v2 updaters on your copies of FMP 5.5v1.

HTH

Old Advance Man

[Steven H. Blackwell]

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Originally posted by Anatoli:

Thanks.

So the question is – FileMaker Client is not relying on networking access. When XP Home cannot log to Windows Servers, can the same machine running FM client use FileMaker Networking and connection to FM server running on "something"?

Anatoli

[ December 08, 2001: Message edited by: Anatoli ]

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FileMaker Pro 5.5v2 itself can run on Windows XP Home. If the server on which FileMaker Server 5.5v1 is running requires the user to authenticate, then the user on XP Home can not do that and therefore can not connect. This is what has been described by MS as I understand it.

HTH

Old Advance Man

[Anatoli]

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Originally posted by Old Advance Man:

FileMaker Pro 5.5v2 itself can run on Windows XP Home. If the server on which FileMaker Server 5.5v1 is running requires the user to authenticate, then the user on XP Home can not do that and therefore can not connect. This is what has been described by MS as I understand it.

HTH

Old Advance Man

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Is that different from v.5?

When our server collapsed while installing mirroring, I've run the FM server from my NT machine and the whole network was without server services and logins.

Must now user authenticate on server? Isn't FileMaker security enough?

Thank you for your patience!

Anatoli

[Anatoli]

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Originally posted by Old Advance Man:

A detailed explanation is on the Microsoft website. Both versions of XP are based on updates to the NT technology. XP Home is severely limited in its ability to network, and it can not log onto Windows servers.

HTH

Old Advance Man

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Thanks.

So the question is – FileMaker Client is not relying on networking access. When XP Home cannot log to Windows Servers, can the same machine running FM client use FileMaker Networking and connection to FM server running on "something"?

Anatoli

[ December 08, 2001: Message edited by: Anatoli ]