Re: Lost TCP/IP Connection to Hosted Databases (Server 5.5/Mac)

I don't have a machine currently running OS 9, which is the only OS from
which FMS 5.5 will allow Appletalk, but your question implies that the
configuration you describe used to work. I find that difficult to
understand, if your statement that 'that the databases are in the Filemaker
Pro 5.5 folder' is accurate. I am hoping you meant Filemaker Server, not
'Pro'. The hosted files need to live in the Filemaker Server folder, either
at the same level as the application ('Filemaker Server'), or one level
lower, in their own folder. Users and Groups should play no part in the
configuration-- that has to do with conventional file sharing, using the
OS's protocols, as opposed to Filemaker Server's own network protocols. This
information is all in the manual:

http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/index.html.

It is not clear to me from your post whether by 'file sharing is turned off'
you meant on the server box (where you indeed want it disabled), or on the
clients' machines.

I cannot imagine a good reason to attempt to use Appletalk anyway, but that
is admittedly an answer to a question you were not asking, save for the fact
that you are attempting access via TCP/IP.

So, is it accurate that there used to be TCP/IP Access? Is it accurate that
the files do live in the FMP, not the FMS folder? Can you still gain access
via Appletalk? Are any of the clients using Filemaker 5 (rather than 5.5 or
6)?

 If the answer to the first question is yes and the answer to the second
question is no, then one must ask what has changed? The most likely answer
is a new barrier between the LAN and the outside-- either a firewall, or a
re-configuration of an old firewall, a mis-closing of a port, added security
in an institution that no one has bothered to tell you about, etc.
-- 
John Weinshel
Datagrace
Vashon Island, WA
(206) 463-1634
Associate Member, Filemaker Solutions Alliance


"Debra Clinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> My Filemaker Server 5.5 was set up to host a number of related databases
> both on Appletalk and TCP/IP, and users were able to connect from home
using
> the 'Specify Hosts' option.
>
> Something has happened that now prevents anyone from getting in via
TCP/IP.
> When I try to connect using TCP/IP, in or out of the office, I just get a
> blank box - it doesn't seem to even try to scan the network!
>
> I've made sure that the databases are in the Filemaker Pro 5.5 folder,
I've
> made sure that file sharing is turned off, I've ensured that the users are
> listed in the Users & Groups file, checked that connect via Appletalk and
> TCP/IP are on, etc.
>
> I don't know where to look for the problem anymore... I can't find
anything
> that says that the databases have to be in a certain folder, or on a
certain
> level of the drive... Is there something else I should know?
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer...
>
> Debra
>
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> Debra Clinton
> Cambridge Management Planning Inc.
> Tel. 416-484-8408  Fax: 416-484-0151
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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