However, full support for FileMaker 9.0 will not be available until late Fall 2007. The installers will be tested on all IS&T-supported operating systems. Therefore, distribution of the FileMaker 9 product line will commence in advance of the completion of the full release project.ĭistribution of FileMaker 9.0 products will commence late September, 2007. It takes time to put all of those services into place, and IS&T understands that community demand for the product can not always wait for the full release effort to conclude. Release efforts encompass a product's software distribution and support services such as training and Help Desk response. įour things have to line up to allow Remote Access to FileMaker Server when it is behind a network router firewall.ġ) The External IP (WAN) address ( obtained from 2) The computer’s internally assigned (by the router) IP addressģ) Port Forwarding has to be turned on in the Router/Firewall and pointing to the server computer.Ĥ) Setup ‘Using DHCP with manual address’ if available on the server computer.The release project for FileMaker 9.0 is scheduled to commence in early Fall 2007. For a complete list of FileMaker Server ports, check out FileMaker’s Knowledge Base here. FileMaker Server uses Port 5003 for remote access. It allows a computer application to directly address a specific computer within a network and behind a firewall. Port Forwarding is a bit like the voice mail equivalent of ‘Press 101 to speak with Jim Brown’. This process is called DHCP or Dynamic Host Control Protocol. These addresses are assigned automatically by the network router. Each computer gets, what is known as an internal IP address, one that only lives within the network.

Think of these as local extensions, similar to what a telephone system might use. Internally, there are IP addresses assigned to each computer and router on the internal network. It is the IP address that obtains, and is usually assigned by an Internet Service Provider, cable or telephone company. This is how the router is called from the outside. The first IP address is the WAN (Wide Area Network) IP address, think of this as the phone number for the company or organization. There are two sets of IP addresses to think about when setting up FileMaker Server to allow remote clients to login.

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