Hi Richard,
This sounds like a Firewall issue. Does your client have some form of
firewall/switch/router that connects the Macs and server to each other
adn the internet? If so it may be blocking the ports needed to share
the databases. The Port for sharing is 5003. Take a look at this
knowledge base article. It may be of help.
http://filemaker.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/filemaker.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=6095
I hope this helps.
Regards
Bruce Herbach
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.
