I have 4 Win/XP computers set to TCP/IP in network protocol. When I open the program on the HOST computer it says allowing multiuser over TCP/IP for each file it opens. When I try to open the host file it can't be found from inside FMP5.5 and if I link to the file directly in the shared drive it says "the file is single-user or the host can't be found on the network".

I'm stuck what's going on? Why does it not show up on the host list and the network connection works fine as I can see all the files available?

Any help is much appricatied

Thanks

Check the FM Sharing preferences. You might be sharing but "hidden"

Incidentally, if you use a "_" as the last char of a filename this will hide the file from the web browsers when web deployed.

No, I checked both and that's not it. I have no "_" as a last char and the file's are not hidden. Can you think of any thing else that may cause this problem

Try going for the IP address of the machine your hosting with.

I've also seen XP "miss" the hosts on the network (I don't think it waits long enough), so possibly click "local hosts" again.

If you get a connection via IP address then you know that the host is not "local".

Got any other machines to compare with :