>on 3/12/01 8:54 PM, Bookout at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Whenever I try to set PC's (not just one machine) connected to a Local
>> Area EtherNet to Multi-User eBase opened in FileMaker Pro v.4.1, I get the
>> following error:
>>
>> "Filemaker cannot host a file because of a network error. Files marked as
>> Multi-User will not be available over the network [-10]."
>>
>> If I open a Mac on the same network to Multi-User and then try to open a
>> PC to guest via the "Host" button, the Mac does not show up as the Host
>> machine in the PC's window.
>>
>> FMP shows that TCP/IP is loaded successfully on startup on both Mac
>> (Quadra 610, System 7.5.3) and
>> the PCs.
>>
>> The EtherNet LAN PCs work normally via Client for Microsoft Network using
>> NetBui and TCP/IP protocol in other respects. They share "print and file"
>> with each other in a peer to peer network..
>>
>> Is there some TCP/IP configuration in Windows 95 that the PCs run that I
>> have overlooked? I also wonder how to set TCP/IP in Open Transport of the
>> Mac: if "manually," I am required to set the Mac's IP address to a static
>> setting. The PC's are set to "automatic" addressing. Should the PC's be
>> given static addresses by means of Hosts file?
>
>If you host on a PC, can the other PCs open via hosts but not the Mac?
>
>Are you using DHCP server? Try having the Mac get its IP address from the
>same address server as the PCs. It doesn't make sense, I think, for it to
>have a static IP address if there's a server responsible for assigning IPs.
>You don't mention whether the Mac can see printers or servers in the Chooser
>dialog box.
Colin, there is no server responsible for assigning IP's. I'm not
using AppleShare, Windows NT/2000 Server or NetWare on a dedicated
server machine.
All the Council has is plain vanilla Windows 95 Client for Microsoft
Networks peer-to-peer networking with NetBeui and TCP/IP bound to it.
Therefore, the Mac cannot "see" printers or servers in the Chooser
dialog box as would be possible using a server to client arrangement.
This is apparently a completely different situation from the kind of
interoperability offered by FMP/ebase PC to Mac connectivity in which
FMP "loads" TCP/IP and makes reciprocal visibility possible? What I
am wondering also is just what configuration of TCP/IP does FMP
"load"? Do the individual settings of TCP/IP in Mac Open Transport
and Windows Properties make any difference to what FMP "loads"? or
does FMP configure TCP/IP for itself? There isn't a word on this
subject in the ebase Administrator's Manual, in the FMP 4.1 manual or
in FMP 4 Bible (Schwartz). Mac Open Transport using Ethernet allows
only "manual as opposed to server settings with BootIP, DHCP or
RARP." Since no servers are being used on the network, I am left with
manual configuration of the Mac as the *only* possiblity. Does this
mean that the Windows 95 TCP/IP, IP addresses must also be *manually*
set? How does Windows assign IP addresses "automatically" in a
peer-to-peer network?
The Council has applied with Semantec recently for additional copies
of FMP for its other PCs but at the present time we are working with
only one PC on which THE single copy of FMP 4.1 we own is installed.
The other machine I am talking about is a Mac which was donated to
the Council on which there was already a copy of FMP 4.0 and on which
we installed ebase.
So I've tried both approaches: to open the Mac and PC (first) as
host to the other machine, in which cases I get a net work error on
either the PC or on the Mac that FMP/ebase cannot be set to
Multi-User; also, when an attempt to open either machine as guest the
host, of course, does not appear in the appropriate window.
We had an arrangement between two Macs working fine via LocalTalk but
the complaint was that the machines were too slow to make entering
data into the 29 ebase relational files feasable (25 Mz!). We
switched to the PC as host so we could cook at the amazing speed of
133 Mz! (No one should underestimate the extent to which non-profits
try to survive with obsolete equipment--there is not one penny in the
Council's budget for computer hardward, software or supplies.
Everything is "crufted" together from donations--"ugly but
temporarily functional."
My difficulty is probably the result of this first attempt at
networking and also of a relatively greater familiarity with Macs
than PCs.
Thanks, Colin, for your speedy reply to our delimma. I'd like to
thank Barry Madore also who has tried to help, but he anticipated
himself that using NetBeui alone would leave the Mac stranded.
Henry Bookout
North Fork Environmental Council
P.O. Box 799
Mattituck, NY 11901
631-298-8880
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