Administrator’s Guide

Configuring FileMaker Server 29
allows you to use your existing authentication server to control
access to databases without having to manage an independent list of
accounts in each hosted database file.
Windows only: If you choose FileMaker and External Server Accounts,
records of all logon attempts are logged in the Windows Security
Log. For more information about the Security Log, see your
Windows documentation.
To prevent clients from viewing or modifying data, scripts, and
layouts in FileMaker
Pro, create a privilege set in each of the hosted
files in FileMaker
Pro. See “Protecting databases with accounts and
privilege sets” in FileMaker
Pro Help for more information.
Filtering the display of files
You can limit the list of FileMaker Server-hosted databases
displayed in FileMaker
Pro to only those databases that each client
can access. If you choose
Display only the databases each user is
authorized to access
, the list of databases displayed is determined by
the client’s access privileges to each hosted database. If you choose
Display all databases, all FileMaker Server hosted databases are
displayed to the client.
Note This setting only affects the display of databases hosted by
FileMaker Server. Databases hosted peer-to-peer using
FileMaker
Pro are not affected.
Securing connections to FileMaker Server
To protect sensitive data, you can encrypt data passed between
FileMaker Server and clients. If
Secure connections to FileMaker
Server
is enabled, all FileMaker Server client connections use the
Secure Sockets Layer, except ODBC and JDBC connections. For
more information about data security, see the
FileMaker Security
Guide
.
Important Secure connections are slower because of data encryption.
Data transfer rates are affected by the number of clients and the
amount of data transferred.
Note Restart FileMaker Server if the secure connections property is
changed.
Protecting files with accounts and privileges
It is important to use the access privileges in FileMaker Pro when
files are shared on a network. Using FileMaker
Pro, you can restrict
what users see and do in a database file by defining accounts and
privilege sets.
Accounts authenticate clients who are attempting to
open a protected file.
Privilege sets specify a level of access to the
database file, limiting what clients can do with the layouts and fields
they can see.
Important Protect shared FileMaker Pro files by using FileMaker Pro
accounts and privilege sets. Although the shared FileMaker
Pro files
can reside on a file server, which may have its own security scheme,
any files available to FileMaker
Pro clients bypass network and file
server protection. For more information about protecting files, see
the
FileMaker Pro User’s Guide or FileMaker Pro Help.
Restoring FileMaker Server
default settings
Windows: To restore all default settings, uninstall and reinstall
FileMaker Server. For more information, see
chapter 2, “Installing
FileMaker Server.”
How FileMaker Server behaves during
system sleep or abnormal shutdown
Windows supports Power Conservation mode, which can cause the
server computer to sleep (hibernate or enter Standby mode). This
suspends access to hosted databases.
Mac OS computers can suspend operation when they enter an
energy-saving system sleep state.
FileMaker Inc. recommends that you disable sleep mode on
computers running FileMaker Server.