Host FMP14 on FMS12?

[clasek]

Hi all,

Please bear with me; I'm a graphic designer learning to develop for my company when I have time. My boss bought me a copy of FMPA14 because I had heard our FMS12 could still host it, but I'm getting an SSL error when I try to connect to the server from FMP14. We have FMS12v04 on an old G5 running OS X Lion and it can't be upgraded any further. I've been researching this a bit and I found links to update FMS12 to v09 (I think?) which I haven't done yet. We all connect to the server with our workstations via LAN. We don't use FMGo or XML or anything like that (at this point). Is there a workaround or an option I can turn off somewhere? I don't want to buy an SSL certificate and I wouldn't know what to do with it if I had one. Thanks!

[Rick Whitelaw]

The SSL option can be turned off in via the Admin Console.

[Josh Ormond]

My first question is...why was SSL turned on to begin with? Turning it off my put sensitive data at risk.

[clasek]

The SSL option can be turned off in via the Admin Console.

Thanks Rick, I turned off the Security option to require a secure connection from Admin Console but I still get this error when I try to connect. And I, unfortunately, am the administrator. 

[David Jondreau]

After changing SSL settings, you need to restart the database server. Not the admin console, but the database server.

[Rick Whitelaw]

And be sure to close all files before restarting the machine . . .

[clasek]

Thanks guys, just getting back to this. I needed to restart the machine! Working great now

[Josh Ormond]

Out of curiosity...why was the SSL on to begin with?

[clasek]

I don't know. It might be because I was trying to figure out how we can access our files through a VPN when we're traveling. It worked, but it was excruciatingly slow.

*Edit: Or our former IT person may have turned it on and I just left it alone…

Edited July 8, 2015 by clasek

[Josh Ormond]

Is there sensitive data in your files? SSN info, confidential contact info, employee info, sensitive company data, etc?

[clasek]

Not currently, but we may potentially have financial information in the future. Why? What are your thoughts?

[Josh Ormond]

If its not encrypted (1) on the server via Encryption at Rest and (2) encrypted via SSL, the data is at risk of being sniffed. And you may never know the data is being compromised.