Administrator’s Guide (Mac OS)

2-24 FileMaker Pro Server Administrator’s Guide
Opening a database file remotely
To open a multiuser FileMaker Pro file and make it available for access by
guests on the network:
1. Click Open Database in the remote administer dialog box.
You see a dialog box with a pop-up menu of unopened FileMaker Pro
files located in the same folder as the FileMaker Pro Server application.
(To open a file remotely, it must be located in the same folder as the
FileMaker Pro Server application.)
2. Choose a filename from the pop-up menu and click OK.
FileMaker Pro Server opens the file, and the filename appears in the list
of the remote administer dialog box.
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.
3. Click Done if you’re finished administering FileMaker Pro Server.
Important If the database file you’re hosting remotely uses the Today
function to calculate dates, you must close and reopen it using the
FileMaker Pro Server application each day to update the dates correctly. See
“Using the Today function with FileMaker Pro Server” on page 2-26 for
more information.
If the file you want to open remotely isn’t located in the same folder as the
FileMaker Pro Server application, you can:
1 use System 7 personal file sharing to copy the database file into the
FileMaker Pro Server 3.0 Folder, and then use the method described
previously.
Important Do not drop the file onto the FileMaker Pro Server application
icon to open it across the network. This causes FileMaker Pro Server to
open the file still located on the remote hard disk and results in
performance degradation.