Help
Table Of Contents
- FileMaker Server 9 Help
- About FileMaker Server
- New features in FileMaker Server 9
- Deploying FileMaker Server
- Starting Admin Console
- Hosting databases
- Hosting websites
- Starting and stopping FileMaker Server
- Configuring general settings
- Configuring Database Server settings
- Configuring web publishing settings
- Administering clients
- Administering databases
- Using ODBC and JDBC with FileMaker Server
- Monitoring FileMaker Server
- Managing plug-ins
- Securing your data
- Scheduling administrative tasks
- Troubleshooting
- Checking for updates
- About the license key
- Command line reference
- Glossary
- Registration
- Customer support and Knowledge Base
- Copyright information
Hosting databases
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ILEMAKER SERVER 9 HELP 31
Hosting databases
Before you can share FileMaker Pro database files, it’s important to prepare the files for hosting.
The steps below provide an overview of the process.
1. Edit the accounts and privileges sets that clients will use for shared access. See Editing
accounts and privilege sets (page 32).
2. Upload
the database files to FileMaker Server. See Uploading database files (page 33).
3. Verify the status of your files in the Admin Console Databases pane, and verify that the files
are available to FileMaker clients. See Verifying databases are available to FileMaker Pro
clients (page 42).
Notes
• You must convert databases created in FileMaker Pro 6 and earlier to FileMaker Pro 7
format. FileMaker Pro versions 7, 8, 8.5, and 9 share the same file format. See
FileMaker Pro Help for information on converting files.
• If a hosted database is designed to access data from an external SQL
data source, you
must set up the same ODBC
data source name (DSN) on the FileMaker Server master
machine as was set up on the machine running FileMaker Pro when the database was
created. See Accessing external ODBC data sources
(page 105).
• If a hosted database uses server-side plug-ins
or if you want to automatically update client-
side plug-ins, then you must place the plug-ins on FileMaker Server also. See Managing
plug-ins (page 119).
• You cannot use peer-to-peer database hosting in FileMaker Pro on the same computer that
FileMaker Server is running on.
• As FileMaker Server opens files that were not closed properly or have not been opened in a
FileMaker 8 or later product, FileMaker Server performs a consistency check on each file
and logs the result of the check in the event log.
• Up to 125 FileMaker Pro database files can be hosted on FileMaker Server and
automatically opened when FileMaker Server starts.
Related topics
Administering databases (page 93)
Closing hosted files
(page 97)
Administering clients
(page 88)
Viewing statistics
(page 108)
Sending messages to FileMaker Pro clients
(page 91)
Enabling auto-update for plug-ins
(page 123)