I set up a client ODBC driver for FMS 19 using the latest download (18) from the Claris download site I saw. I set up the ODBC driver dialog on the Mac to access FMS and it looked like everything was OK. No errors reported. Used IP address of FMS not the web direct "https://.../fmi/webd/..." syntax…

Ahhh! That explains it. :slight_smile: It was still odd that on FMS 19 itself (the other test I did), setting up ODBC there for potential "other" clients, the ODBC setup utility couldn't find any of the opened FMS databases (using either "localhost" or using the IP address of the server). Since no…

A similar question was being asked in the Claris forums. You can find that discussion here: Claris Community (English) In short, it should be possible.

Thanks! So, ESS isn't possible and I suppose that is what I was attempting. It's all good. I really appreciate your follow up info and that link. I saw another ODBC question on the forum over there so I guess this is official ODBC day. :slight_smile:

Unable to connect to FMS19 using Claris JDBC

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harvest February 9, 2022, 1:06pm 2

Hi, as far as I know, FileMaker cannot be ODBC source to FileMaker, there is some kind of limitation built in, only works with JDBC

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Unable to connect to FMS19 using Claris JDBC

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