Thanks Everyone,
It looks like I've finally sorted this problem out.
The difficulty was in the set up of Sharing in FMP
In the IWP setup screen, you need to click Advance Options and select
the alternate port.
In my Using Filemaker 8 book, they recommend port 591, which I put in.
(It had been set to the default of port 80)
Next I changed the port forwarding in my router to port 591, and...
Voila! Now the database can be accessed from outside!
Jay
On Jun 20, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Corn Walker wrote:
On Jun 20, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Jay Erlebacher wrote:
If I can't use port 80, does it matter what other port I forward?
ISPs that block port 80 are typically doing so because they disallow
"servers" on the network. You may find that they block nearly any
incoming connection that isn't first initiated by an outgoing
connection.
You can try ports at the higher end of the range like 8080 (a common
alternate port for web servers) or something even higher (27132 for
a random value). Your router will need to be configured to forward
that port and users will need to specify that port when trying to
reach your server, e.g.:
http://yourhostname.dnsalias.com:8080
Corn Walker
The Proof Group
http://proofgroup.com/
Jay Erlebacher
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