Network Install

Network Install Setup for FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced 3
3. Save the changes you have made to Assisted Install.txt as plain
text.
1 Windows: Assisted Install.txt and Setup.exe must be in the
Files folder during installation.
1 Mac OS: Assisted Install.txt must be in the same folder as
the FileMaker Pro 8.5 or FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced
installer application during installation.
Preventing users from creating databases
If you use a personalization file, you can set an option
(Admin_NoNewDatabases) that prevents users from creating
FileMaker databases. If the option is set, the FileMaker product
displays an alert message when users do any of the following:
1 Choose File menu > New Database.
1 Click the New button on the toolbar.
1 Export to a FileMaker Pro file.
1 Choose File menu > Save a Copy As.
1 Open the New Database dialog box.
1 Recover a FileMaker Pro file.
1 Convert another file format (like tab-delimited) into a new
FileMaker Pro file, for example, by choosing
File menu >
Open.
1 Execute an Apple event to open a file in another format.
1 Execute the Apple events do menu command to create a file.
1 Perform a script that does any of the above.
1 Choose a custom menu item that does any of the above.
To create databases, users must reinstall the FileMaker software
with the Admin_NoNewDatabases option cleared.
How users perform
an assisted installation
To install FileMaker products, instruct users to mount the volume
containing the installation files, then double-click Setup.exe
(Windows) or the FileMaker Pro 8.5 or FileMaker
Pro 8.5
Advanced installer application (Mac OS).
If Assisted Install.txt is present in the same folder as the installer,
the installer uses information in it during installation. If this file is
not present or is incomplete, users have to supply required
information.
Notes
1 Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP users must have
Standard User privileges or greater to install FileMaker
products.
1 On Mac OS, the installer automatically installs the FileMaker
product to use the same language as the current Mac
OS
system language. Users who want to install the FileMaker
product with a different language should use the International
System Preference to change the Mac
OS language prior to
installing the FileMaker product.
About silent assisted installations
(Windows)
During a silent installation, user interaction with the FileMaker
installer is kept to a minimum. Required installation information
is read from the personalization file (Assisted Install.txt) and
installation screens are not displayed.
There are two ways to perform a silent installation. Users can:
1 Double-click the Setup.exe file located on the mounted
volume. This method requires that you modify the Setup.ini
file. For more information, see the next section.
1 Type the installation command and applicable options at the
command line. For more information, see
“Performing a silent
installation using the command line (Windows)” on page 4.
Modifying Setup.ini for silent installation (Windows)
If you make the following changes to the Setup.ini file, a silent
installation begins when users mount the networked volume and
double-click Setup.exe:
1. Locate the Setup.ini file in the Files folder inside the
FileMaker
Pro 8.5 or FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced folder.
2. Open Setup.ini using a text editor such as NotePad.
3. Locate the [Startup] section and type one of the following after
CmdLine=
Note Installpath is the desired location of the FileMaker
product folder on the user’s computer. The path cannot contain
spaces unless it is enclosed by quotation marks. The following
example path would install into the FileMakerPro8.5 folder inside
the Applications folder on drive c:
c:\Applications\FileMakerPro8.5
4. Save and close the Setup.ini file.
5. Instruct users how to perform an assisted installation as
described in
“How users perform an assisted installation” on
page 3.
To
Add the options as shown after
CmdLine=
Install a FileMaker product
without a user interface
(silent install)
CmdLine=/q
Display a progress bar and
cancel button during installation
CmdLine=/qb+
Install FileMaker Pro 8.5 or
FileMaker
Pro 8.5 Advanced to
a non-default location on the
local machine
CmdLine=/qb+
INSTALLDIR=installpath