FileMaker Pro Server

• FileMaker Pro Server provides enhanced file sharing capabilities on your network when used in conjunction with the FileMaker Pro database management application, also from FileMaker, Inc..

  Introducing FileMaker Pro Server

  You've always been able to share database files in FileMaker Pro using a peer-to-peer sharing scheme with the Multi-User command. Now you can use FileMaker Pro Server as a dedicated host to open FileMaker Pro files and make them available to FileMaker Pro guests on your network. FileMaker Pro Server acts only as a host, and uses advanced client/server technology to take care of much of the background work associated with managing files, thereby enhancing performance for FileMaker Pro guests accessing those files.

  FileMaker Pro Server also increases the number of simultaneous FileMaker Pro guests that can access a database file over a network from 25 to 100.

  How does FileMaker Pro Server work?

  FileMaker Pro Server consists of a service and a control panel. By operating as a service, FileMaker Pro Server provides improved performance to FileMaker Pro guests on the network. Like other services, it does not require a user to be logged in to the computer running the service, which provides better security. FileMaker Pro Server is a tool to use with FileMaker Pro in a network environment to:

• enhance the guests' performance
• increase the number of FileMaker Pro guests who can connect to a file hosted by FileMaker Pro Server

   

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