Monday, November 1, 2010

FileMaker File Sharing Troubles

Last days I get phone calls about FileMaker sharing errors from my customers. I dont remember similar error in past. It is very use to share file or open shared file via FileMaker normally. I have solved the problems about sharing after some experiments and internet search. You can find the easiest way to solve sharing problems below :

How to solve FileMaker Sharing Problem: 'Networking Stack could not be Initialized'

Happy sharing :)


Solutions for FileMaker Network Sharing Errors

Last days I get phone calls about FileMaker sharing errors from my customers. I dont remember similar error in past. It is very use to share file or open shared file via FileMaker normally. I have solved the problems about sharing after some experiments and internet search. You can find the easiest way to solve sharing problems in this page.

You will find error messages in multi-lingual, they will be useful if you are using FileMaker in other languages.

Please leave a comment if your problem is not solved. (see bottom of the page)

Happy sharing :)

The Error Messages 

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English
"FileMaker cannot share or be a client of a file because the networking stack could not be initialized."
"FileMaker cannot share files because another user is already sharing files using FileMaker Pro in this computer."

Türkçe (Turkish)
"Baka bir kullanc bu bilgisayarda FileMaker Pro kullaranak zaten dosyalar paylatrdndan FileMaker dosyalar paylatramyor"
"A yn balatlamadndan FileMaker bir dosyay paylaamyor veya o dosyann istemcisi olamyor."

Française (French)
"Filemaker ne peut partager un fichier ni tre le client d'un fichier car la pile de mise en rseau n'a pu tre initialis
"FileMaker ne peut partager les fichiers, car un autre utilisateur les partage dj avec FileMaker Pro sur cet ordinateur."

etina (Czech)
"FileMaker nemohou sdlet soubor. Nebo bt klientem souboru. Sov rozhran, protoe nemohl bt inicializovn."
"FileMaker nem sdlet soubory, protoe jin uivatel ji na tomto potai sdl soubory pomoc FileMakeru Pro"

Nedherlands (Nedherlands)
"FileMaker kan geen bestanden samengebruiken omdat een adere gebruiker op deze computer reeds bestanden deelt met behulp van FileMaker Pro"

Deutsch (Deutsch)
"FileMaker Pro kann Dateien nicht freigeben, da ein anderer Benutzer bereits Dateien mit FileMaker Pro auf diesem Computer freigibt"

Italiano (Italian)
"FileMaker non pu condividere file. Un altro utente sta condividendo file su questo computer utilizzando FileMaker Pro"

Polski (Polish)
"Program FileMaker nie moe undostepni plikw, poniewa inny uytkownik tego programu ju undestpnia pliki na tym komputerze."

Pycc (Russian)
"FileMaker c , FileMaker ."

Espaol (Spanish)
"FileMaker no puede compartir archivos porque otro usuario estcompartiendo archivos con FileMaker Pro en este equipo."

Svanska (Swedish)
"FileMaker kan inte dela filen. Eller en klient i en fil. Fljd av att ntverksstack kunde inte initieras."
"Du kan inte dela FileMaker filer eftersom en annan anvndare redan delar filer med hjlp av FileMaker Pro p den hr datorn."

The Reason 

reason / neden / raison / dvod / reden / ragione / powodu / / razn / anledning

Probabale case of this error is related to file named server.pem. The file is damaged or missing.

Affected Versions 

FileMaker Pro 7
FileMaker Pro 8,
FileMaker Pro 8.5
FileMaker Pro 9
FileMaker Pro 10
FileMaker Pro 11 (and advanced versions).

OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Solution 

solution / zm / solution / een / oplossing / soluzione / rozwizanie / / solucin / lsning

FileMaker Inc's official Knowledge Base has some solution suggestions. The easiest and tested of it is copying server.pem file from another computer that FileMaker runs and connects to remote file without any problem.

The file is located at : Program Files/FileMaker/FileMaker Pro X/server.pem

If you don't have another computer runs FileMaker you can simply download the working server.pem file from following link:
www.yazalim.com/filemaker-networking-file

Copy the file in the same place (C:/Program Files/FileMaker/FileMaker Pro X/ )