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Started by Etienne Bido
Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:30
Filemaker network problems
Author: Etienne Bido
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:30
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:30
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I've been having problems with Filemaker Pro 2.0x and an ethernet network (7-8 Macs) There is a main database on a server with several extra files in the same folder which the main database uses for lookups. If I go to, say Mac nr 1, and acces the main database then I have to tell it where his lookup files are. I will tell him. If I go to Mac nr 2, the same story, I show him where the lookup files are and it works fine. If I go back to Mac nr 1, it tells me again that it can't find the lookup files!! What am I doing wrong????? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Etienne Bido || ebido@bio.vu.nl Vrye Universiteit || bido@chem.vu.nl Amsterdam Holland
Re: Filemaker network problems
Author: Brian Hughes
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:33
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:33
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ebido@bio.vu.nl (Etienne Bido) writes:
>I've been having problems with Filemaker Pro 2.0x and an ethernet
>network (7-8 Macs)
>There is a main database on a server with several extra files
>in the same folder which the main database uses for lookups.
>If I go to, say Mac nr 1, and acces the main database then I have to
>tell it where his lookup files are. I will tell him.
>If I go to Mac nr 2, the same story, I show him where the lookup
>files are and it works fine.
>If I go back to Mac nr 1, it tells me again that it can't find
>the lookup files!!
>What am I doing wrong?????
Wow. I don't think I have seen this problem before. Do you get the
same messages when you use the files from the server itself? How are you
accessing the database files on the server? Are you mounting it onto the
desktop of the client mac as a fileserver or some other method?
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Re: Filemaker network problems
Author: Thumper
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:06
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:06
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In <1993Jan26.103054.15244@bio.vu.nl> ebido@bio.vu.nl (Etienne Bido) writes:
>There is a main database on a server with several extra files
>in the same folder which the main database uses for lookups.
Question... what kind of server? AppleShare? Novell NetWare?
>If I go to, say Mac nr 1, and acces the main database then I have to
>tell it where his lookup files are. I will tell him.
>
>If I go to Mac nr 2, the same story, I show him where the lookup
>files are and it works fine.
>
>If I go back to Mac nr 1, it tells me again that it can't find
>the lookup files!!
Are these files being accessed by multiple users? Is the 'Single-USer'
option unchecked in the File menu? You should get a different error if
this is the case but something could be screwing that up.
-Geoff
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