i just got this to work. there's a tech artcle on the filemaker website at: http://www.filemaker.com/ti/104289.html
basically, you have to get into your router setup screens, then you have to set the filemaker 'server' machine to a static i.p. address (else the address will change ever time...
one technique i have used to to put the help files right int the filemaker database that needs it.
take screen shots of the layouts, open the images in an image editor and clean the screenshots up. import the images into a "help screen" layout in FMP. then, using callouts (lines that...
i recall from the old days (early filemaker) that repeating fields are seperated with a particular ASCII character. but i can't remember what character it was! so if your text file was formatted as:
data1 <tab>data2<ASCII#>data3<ASCII#><tab>data4<PARAGRAPH MARK> you could import into 3 fields...
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