I want to thank all who replied to this. Last week was my first week back on the job after being away 3 months so i was a little preoccupied.
It turns out placing the fmjdbc.jar file in the C:\Windows\System32 directory did the trick. I spend most of my time in linux environments, and was expecting things to work somewhat similar. Thanks again to all who replied. Grant On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]>wrote: > Oh. The desktop! Never mind... > On Dec 6, 2012 10:55 AM, "Al Holden" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Also be sure to restart the OpenBD instance - or the entire J2EE >> environment if possible. >> Picking up changes like this is not dynamic. >> Al Holden >> >> On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:44:02 AM UTC-8, Grant Gelinas-Brown >> wrote: >>> >>> Hey there, >>> >>> I'm a little stymied on making a connection from OpenBD Desktop on >>> Windows to FileMaker server using the JDBC driver. >>> >>> Testing environment: >>> >>> Windows 2008 Server Standard >>> FileMaker Server Advanced 12 >>> Both on the same machine. >>> >>> I have successfully done this from the Mac OS to FileMaker Server on >>> Windows, but when i try to add a datasource using OpenBD Desktop on the >>> Windows Server, I get the error: >>> >>> Could not register database driver com.filemaker.jdbc.Driver. Please >>> make sure this driver is in your classpath. >>> >>> I have set a CLASSPATH environment variable which points to exactly >>> where the fmjdbc.jar file is located within the OpenBD directory structure. >>> >>> Am I missing something subtle here? >>> >>> Thanks for any possible help. >>> Grant >>> >>> -- >> online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ >> http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en >> > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
