Administrator’s Guide (Mac OS)

2-8 FileMaker Pro Server Administrator’s Guide
Opening a file as the host
To open a multiuser FileMaker Pro 3.0 file for guest access using
FileMaker Pro Server:
1. In FileMaker Pro Server, choose Administer from the File menu if the
administer window isn’t already open.
2. Click Open Database.
You see the Open dialog box.
3. Select the name of the file to open and click Open (or double-click
the filename).
FileMaker Pro Server opens the file and makes it available to
FileMaker Pro guests on the network. In a moment the database name
appears in the list of the administer window (if View by Database is
selected). You can’t see or modify information in these files using
FileMaker Pro Server.
FileMaker Pro Server displays a message if it can’t open the selected
database file and writes a description of the problem to the FileMaker Pro
Server Log. See “Examining the log file” on page 2-4 and appendix A,
“Technical specifications and optimization,” for more information.
Important If the database file you’re hosting uses the Today function to
calculate dates, you must close and reopen it each day using the FileMaker Pro
Server application to update the dates correctly. See “Using the Today function
with FileMaker Pro Server” on page 2-26 for more information.
For information on using files from earlier versions of FileMaker Pro, see
“Converting files from earlier versions of FileMaker Pro” on page 2-3.
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