Guide to Updating Plug-ins

9-10 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
To specify a customized user account name and group name:
1. Switch to the root user and enter the root password.
2. Using your text editor, open the fmserver.conf file.
3. Find the FMServerUser preference parameter and replace the existing
user name between the quotes with a custom user name. For example:
FMServerUser “fmsdaemon”
The default user account name is fmserver.
4. Find the FMServerGroup preference parameter and replace the
existing group name between the quotes with a custom group name.
For example:
FMServerGroup “MKTG”
The default group name is fmserver.
Note Both the user name and group name are case sensitive.
5. If you’re finished making changes to the configuration file, close
the text editor.
6. Ensure that all databases hosted by FileMaker Server are readable
and writable by the new user and group names by entering the
following commands:
# chown fmsdaemon database_1 database_2 …
# chgrp MKTG database_1 database_2 …
# chmod 664 database_1 database_2 …
where database_1 database_2 … is a list of all databases to be
hosted, separated by single spaces.
The chmod command above grants read/write permission to the new user
account name and group. When you list hosted files using the operating
system command ls -1, file permissions are now displayed as follows:
-rw-rw-r--
Important If permissions are not set correctly on database files,
FileMaker Server can’t open them.
7. Restart FileMaker Server and log out as the root user.
Enabling remote administration in
FileMaker Server
Using FileMaker Pro 5.x, you can remotely control FileMaker Server
from a different computer than the one on which FileMaker Server is
installed and hosting databases. After you turn on remote
administration, you can use a remote computer to view a list of
hosted databases, the guests using them, and monitor performance
statistics. You can control access to remote administration by
requiring a password that restricts access to the Remote
administration databases. For more information about using remote
administration on a guest computer, see chapter 7, “Administering
FileMaker Server (Windows and Mac OS).”
If you want to administer FileMaker Server from a remote computer,
first enable it on the server computer. Then install the remote
administration plug-in on the client computers you plan to use for
remote administration. For more information about installing and
enabling the remote administration plug-in, see “Automatically
downloading the Server Administration plug-in to a remote
computer” on page 7-6.
To administer FileMaker Server from a remote computer, first turn
on remote administration and then enable password protection, if
you want. You use the fmspasswd utility installed with FileMaker
Server to encrypt the remote administration password.
To turn on remote administration and create a remote administration
password:
1. Switch to the root user and enter the root password.
2. Using your text editor, open the fmserver.conf file.
3. Find the UseRemoteAdmin preference parameter and replace the
current value with
ON.
UseRemoteAdmin ON