Richard
I also work primarily on Macs and have rarely had problems. So I'm no
expert here, but since no-one else has responded I'll say my bit.
Almost certainly you've got something somewhere in the network that
is blocking ports. I can't remember which ports are needed for
Filemaker networking/sharing, but you can find out pretty easily in
the documentation or online.
Possible problem points are going to be any routers, gateways or
similar on your network and built-in firewalls in the workstations.
Given that all clients seem to be failing, my guess is that there is
some device between the host and clients. Did you set up the network?
Are you sure your server is within your LAN, not outside the router?
I think there was a discussion on exactly the same issue -- host
showing up but now files listed -- on this or another FMP mailing
list within the past month or so.
HTH a little.
Steve
On 22 Aug 2008, at 05:38, Richard S. Russell wrote:
OK, this is an odd one. Normally I have no problems at all with
FileMaker networking. Just shout the superhero motto "Sharing ON,
Captain Video", click "All Users" next to each file to be shared,
and *presto* they all show up in the "Open Remote" dialog box on
every other computer on the network.
Except today, at a new client's site, it didn't work. The guest
computers could see the listing for the host computer itself just
fine in the left-hand pane, but there were no files listed in the
right-hand pane. (They DID show up when I did an "Open Remote" from
the HOST computer.) Relaunching FMP and then restarting the host
computer itself didn't help.
I am perplexed. Honest, honey, this has never happened before.
Any ideas?
Mac network using FMP 9 on all guest machines and FMPA 9 on the
host computer.
