Well, you're in front of me as my iMac running Snow Leopard won't even 
open Filemaker 9

Lee

On 8/04/11 4:41 AM, David McQueen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I ran into this today and figured I would post in case some one else 
> could use it.
>
> Scenario:
>
> 3 week old MacBook with Snow Leopard
> Served FileMaker Files
> FileMaker Pro 9
> Mixed Windows / Mac environment, Windows server.
>
> Problem:
>
> User could open up FileMaker Pro 9.  Using Open Remote, he could see 
> the server.  When he selected the server, no files showed.
>
> No other machines exhibited the problem, either Mac or Win.
>
> Initial thoughts:
>
> Somehow the 5003 port has not been opened on the new machine. Running 
> Network utility confirmed this.
>
> Cause of problem:
>
> Installing FMP 9 requires Rosetta.  Rosetta will be invoked on an 
> install of FileMaker if it has not been previously installed. The 
> subsequent Rossetta installation for this is faulty and does not open 
> up the port.
>
> Solution:
>
> 1. Uninstall FileMaker Pro
>
> 2. Do a separate installation of Rossetta from the system disks.
>
> 3. Re-install FileMaker Pro.
>
> Hopefully this will save some one  some head scratching time. These 
> guys had been trying for the full three weeks before calling.
>
> Dave

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