Administrator’s Guide (Mac OS)

Chapter 2: Using FileMaker Pro Server
Use FileMaker Pro Server as a tool to host FileMaker Pro 3.0 database files for
access by FileMaker Pro users on your network. FileMaker Pro Server by
itself doesn’t let you see or modify information in these hosted FileMaker Pro
files. You can:
1 open—or host—a FileMaker Pro database file, making it available to
FileMaker Pro guests on the network
1 view statistical information about the files that FileMaker Pro Server is
hosting, like the number of guests accessing each database file or the
number of files being hosted
1 send messages to guests of hosted files
1 close a hosted FileMaker Pro file, making it unavailable to
FileMaker Pro guests
1 disconnect a selected FileMaker Pro guest from a particular hosted file or
all hosted files
Hosting files
The FileMaker Pro Server application opens FileMaker Pro files for access
by FileMaker Pro guests on the network.
Remember that double-clicking a FileMaker Pro file opens that file in
FileMaker Pro, not FileMaker Pro Server. Use the techniques described in
this chapter to open files with FileMaker Pro Server.
Starting the application and opening files
When you start FileMaker Pro Server, the application automatically opens
all multiuser FileMaker Pro 3.0 files or aliases located in the FileMaker Pro
Server 3.0 Folder (or in enclosed folders one level down). Up to a maximum
of 100 files can be made accessible to FileMaker Pro 3.0 guests on the
network. Each FileMaker Pro guest may open up to 50 files at a time, as long
as the combined number of open files doesn’t exceed 100.
Use one of four ways to have FileMaker Pro Server open FileMaker Pro files:
1 If FileMaker Pro Server isn’t already running, double-click the
FileMaker Pro Server application icon to start the application. See the
next section for details.
Application icon