Lately, a customer of mine has had problems with a single person’s Macintosh in the office being disconnected from FileMaker server several times a day. It was pretty much looking like this would be one for the books as they had already tried a huge number of things to fix the problem, including:
- different computers at this person’s desk (including the IT guy’s own laptop)
- different IP addresses on the computers
- different ports in the switch
- different ethernet cables
- different power sources for the computers
- different UPS boxes for the different power sources
- deleting FileMaker Pro preference files on the workstation
- changes to the FileMaker Server settings
All of these things failed to stop the worker from being disconnected. Read the rest of this entry »