Guide to Updating Plug-ins

6-4 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
For example, if you monitor guest usage over time and notice you
rarely have more than 22 guests active at one time, set this option to
allow 25 guests for best performance on your server.
3. Set any other options, then click OK.
If you increase the number of guests allowed, you must restart
FileMaker Server for the new setting to take effect.
Allowing disconnection of idle guests
FileMaker Server can disconnect guests who have been idle for more
than a specified period of time. You can:
1 specify the amount of time before idle guests are disconnected
1 use the default disconnect message to warn guests that they will be
disconnected, or write a custom message
Note In FileMaker Pro 5.5, you can use a password privilege to keep
a guest connected to FileMaker Server when the guest is idle. In
some instances, such as when a guest is also serving as a web
publishing host, the guest should maintain a connection to FileMaker
Server, so that users connecting to the database through a browser
will be able to access the database. For more information, see
FileMaker Pro 5.5 Help.
Setting a time to disconnect idle guests
FileMaker Server can disconnect guests after a specified amount of
idle time.
Tip To avoid being disconnected, guests should periodically show
some activity (for example, move to a different record, then click in
one of the fields) when working in databases hosted by
FileMaker Server.
1. In the Properties (Windows) or Preferences (Mac OS) dialog box,
click the Guests tab.
2. Select Disconnect Idle Guests.
3. Click the up or down arrow to select the amount of idle time after
which inactive guests should be disconnected. The minimum setting
is 10 minutes and the maximum setting is 24 hours.
4. Set any other options, then click OK.
Setting the pre-disconnect message
Before an idle guest is disconnected from a hosted database,
FileMaker Server sends the guest a message to warn that
disconnection will occur soon. You can send a default message from
FileMaker Server or you can type your own message.
To customize the pre-disconnect message:
1. In the Properties (Windows) or Preferences (Mac OS) dialog box,
click the Guests tab, and select Disconnect Idle Guests.
2. Select Custom message, then type a message in the text box.
3. Set any other options, then click OK.
Authenticating guest log on (Windows)
If FileMaker Server is running on Windows and is a member of a
Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 domain, you can require that
guests are members of the same domain as FileMaker Server before
they are granted access to a hosted database.
Note Guests attempting to access hosted databases on this server
must be using FileMaker Pro 5.5 to gain access to a database
protected by Windows authentication.
If guests are not already logged on to the same domain as FileMaker
Server when they attempt to open a protected database, they are
prompted for their user name and password for a Windows domain.
Records of all logon attempts are logged in the Windows Security
Log. For more information about the Security Log, see your
Windows documentation.