Administrator’s Guide

30 FileMaker Server Administrator’s Guide
Disconnecting clients
Disconnect a client from a hosted database by selecting Action menu >
Disconnect All Clients (Windows) or Action menu > Clients > Disconnect
All Clients from Server
(Mac OS). If you select a client from the Clients
view, only the selected client is disconnected.
You can send the client a message in addition to the standard
FileMaker
Pro message (the default).
The selected client sees a notification dialog box with your message
requesting that the client disconnect from the server.
When the set time elapses, FileMaker Server disconnects the client
and the client’s name disappears from the Clients view.
Closing hosted files
Close a database and disconnect any clients accessing it by choosing
Action menu > Close (Windows) or Action menu > Databases > Close
Database
(Mac OS).
You can send the client a message in addition to the standard
FileMaker
Pro message (the default).
Clients see a notification dialog box with your message requesting that
they close their connection to a file. When the set time elapses,
FileMaker
Server disconnects any remaining clients and closes the file
or files in the folder.
Closing many databases, a large database file, or a file with many
connected clients may take several minutes.
Tip You can close files from the command prompt (Windows) or the
Terminal (Mac OS). See “Using the command line to automate tasks”
on page 54 for more information.
Enabling Auto Update for plug-ins
If the database solutions you will host on FileMaker Server use plug-
ins, you can enable the Auto Update plug-in preference in each
FileMaker
Pro client to automatically install or update required or
outdated plug-ins.
To automatically update a plug-in or support file, the required file
must be installed on FileMaker
Server and the Auto Update feature
must be enabled in FileMaker
Pro and on FileMaker Server. See
“Allowing FileMaker Pro clients to download updates automatically”
on page 33 and the FileMaker Guide to Updating Plug-ins.
Plug-ins installed on FileMaker Server (Mac OS) must also be owned
by the group
fmsadmin and have group read and executable
permissions. For more information, see
“Using FileMaker Server in
Mac OS” on page 52.