Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Using the FileMakerServer documentation
- Chapter 1 Welcome to FileMakerServer 5
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMakerServer in Windows
- What you need
- Installing FileMakerServer
- Where files are stored on your hard disk
- Starting FileMakerServer (WindowsNT)
- Starting FileMakerServer (Windows2000)
- Stopping FileMakerServer (WindowsNT)
- Stopping FileMakerServer (Windows2000)
- Installing the Server Administration plug-in on a remote computer running Windows
- Enabling the Server Administration plug-in using FileMakerPro (Windows)
- Uninstalling FileMakerServer (Windows)
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMakerServer in the MacOS
- What you need
- Installing FileMakerServer
- Adjusting memory (MacOS)
- Where files are stored on your hard disk
- Starting FileMakerServer (MacOS)
- Quitting FileMakerServer (Mac OS)
- Installing the Server Administration plug-in on a remote computer running the MacOS
- Enabling the Server Administration plug-in using FileMaker Pro (MacOS)
- Chapter 4 Configuring FileMakerServer
- Using the configuration assistants (Windows)
- Opening the Properties dialog box (Windows)
- Opening the Preferences dialog box (MacOS)
- Setting the number of guests
- Allowing disconnection of idle guests
- Setting the maximum number of files
- Changing the amount of memory used by FileMakerServer
- Setting how often the cache is flushed
- Allowing single user files to be hosted
- Opening runtime solutions automatically (Windows)
- Opening runtime solutions automatically (Mac OS)
- Enabling remote administration
- Specifying a custom host name
- Maximizing performance (MacOS)
- Choosing network protocols
- Setting the preferred IP address
- Recording usage statistics and settingsizelimits
- Setting a size limit for the application log (WindowsNT)
- Setting a size limit for the application log (Windows2000)
- Setting a size limit for the Server Event Log (MacOS)
- Protecting files with a password
- How FileMakerServer behaves during system sleep
- Chapter 5 Administering FileMakerServer
- Administering FileMakerServer remotely
- Opening the Remote Administration window
- Listing hosted files and current guests remotely
- Viewing usage statistics for FileMakerServer remotely
- Hosting FileMakerPro5 files remotely
- Closing hosted files remotely
- Disconnecting guests remotely
- Viewing detailed information about hosted files and guests remotely
- Sending messages to guests remotely
- Sending messages to all guests remotely
- Administering FileMakerServer locally
- Monitoring performance locally (WindowsNT)
- Monitoring performance locally (Windows2000)
- Opening the local administration window (MacOS)
- Listing hosted files and guests locally (MacOS)
- Viewing usage statistics locally (MacOS)
- Hosting FileMaker Pro 5 files locally (MacOS)
- Closing hosted files locally (MacOS)
- Disconnecting guests locally (MacOS)
- Sending messages to guests locally (MacOS)
- Using reported events to track activities
- Recalculating the Today function inhosteddatabases
- Administering FileMakerServer remotely
- Chapter 6 Scheduling administrative tasks with FileMakerServer
- Scheduling tasks to run automatically (Windows)
- Scheduling tasks to run automatically (MacOS)
- Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules list (Windows)
- Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules window (MacOS)
- Running scheduled tasks manually
- Changing scheduled tasks
- Duplicating scheduled tasks
- Deleting scheduled tasks
- Enabling and disabling scheduled tasks
- Using the command line to automate tasks (Windows)
- Using an AppleScript to automate tasks (MacOS)
- Making sure you don’t run out of disk space
- Appendix A Technical specifications and optimization
- Appendix B Performance and usage tips
- Appendix C Event log messages and troubleshooting
- Appendix D About the TechInfo database
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FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
The database files appear in the Folders tab of the administration
window.
Tips
1 Alternatively, you can drag one or more database files onto the
FileMaker Server administration window to open them for guest
access.
1 FileMaker Server can open files set to Single User in FileMaker
Pro, if you have enabled the Allow FileMaker Server to host Single User
files option. For more information, see “Allowing single user files to
be hosted” on page 4-5.
1 You can use the Multi-User (Hidden) command in
FileMaker Pro 5 to prevent subordinate related files from appearing
in the Hosts dialog box. For more information, see the
FileMaker Pro 5 User’s Guide.
1 You can Shift-click additional files in the Open dialog box to open
more than one file at a time.
Closing hosted files locally (Mac OS)
To close a hosted database and disconnect any guests currently
accessing it:
1. In FileMaker Server, choose Window menu > Administration
Window to display the list of currently hosted files.
2. Select a database file in the list that you want to close.
Tip You can Shift-click additional databases in the list to close more
than one at a time. If you are viewing databases by folder, you can
select one folder to close all files in it or Shift-click an assortment of
files and folders to close them.
3. Choose File menu > Close File.
You see the Close selected files/folders dialog box.
4. Enter text for the options in the dialog box, or accept the default
message and settings.
5. Click OK.
The file or folder name in the list changes to italicized text to show
that FileMaker Server is closing it.
Guests see a notification dialog box with your message requesting
they close their connection to a file. If guests don’t close the file, the
message repeats approximately one minute before the file is set to be
closed by FileMaker Server.
For this option Do this
Message to send Type text you want the guests to see in addition to the
standard FileMaker Pro message (asking guests to close
the database file).
Minutes until guests
forced to disconnect
Enter a value (the default is 5 minutes or the
last-entered value).
Type your
message here
Specify how long
guests have to
disconnect before
the file will be
closed