Administrator’s Guide

Chapter 3
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Installing FileMaker Server 23
4. From the pop-up menu at the top of the Connect to FileMaker
Server dialog box, choose
Local Servers, Favorite Servers, or Servers
Listed by LDAP.
If you are using FileMaker Server Admin on the same computer that
is running FileMaker Server, you can choose (localhost) in the Favorite
Servers
view.
For a remote Server, add the IP address to Favorite Servers. You can
select a Server from the
Local Servers list and click Add to Favorites to
add it to the Favorite Servers list.
In the Servers Listed by LDAP list, you see the FileMaker Servers that
have the
Register FileMaker Server with a directory service property
enabled.
5. Select the FileMaker Server you want to administer, then click
Connect.
6. Type a user name and password, if you are prompted to enter them.
7. Select the Databases node (Windows) or click the Databases button
(Mac
OS).
8. The FMServer_Sample.fp7 database should be listed as Normal in
the
Status column.
To verify that the database is usable from a client computer:
1. Launch FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced.
2. Choose File menu > Open Remote.
3. Select Local Hosts from the View menu, and choose your server
from the list. The name of the sample database should appear in the
column on the right.
4. If your server is not on your local network, you can enter the
network file path directly in the Open Remote dialog box by typing
fmnet:/hostIPAddress/FMServer_Sample.fp7, where
hostIPAddress is the IP address of your server.
5. If you can open the sample database, your copy of
FileMaker
Server is installed correctly.
Close the sample database, and quit FileMaker Pro.
If you cannot open the sample database, review the previous steps and
see the troubleshooting topics in FileMaker
Server Help for more
suggestions.