Jvaldes, I would take any help I could get on this particular issue. The program and its plugin itself have to be on the same station as FilemakerPro. The application has the plugin and takes certain data elements from its database and injects them into the filemaker database. My plugin is actually on the application itself (NOT A FILEMAKER PLUGIN).

There are certain things that Pro does better and faster than server, not a personal attack! I forgot we have a content spider and a file structure spider that also run on this box to provide google like search on 20000 text files, this updates every hour. Our system is extremely reliable and requires little on no (non automated) maintenance. We have a dozen apps with hundreds of tables drawing from millions of records that are crosslinked to produce functionality that would be too slow on a single server. On the other hand this box is maintaining the the data cube and the server is managing the applications that depend on the digested cube that resides on the server. My 'Blender' is a high powered box (running PRO) with redundant drives and 2 Quad Xeons to provide the response necessary to get the job done. I use this technique to combine a number of data connections and data accumulators to provide the combined data for a data cube. He also did not say if he had a RAID disk set connected through the Firewire 800 connection that comes on an iMac. Not every hosted database needs to accessible to every user, and you could lock it down nice and tight with server side authentication.Īllow people to adventure, no one said the singular unit is old or decrepit. Why can't you have your database hosted on the server, and if you need a local copy, also have on one the laptop and use some import/export /update scripts to synchronise records?

( you could also run VNC on your server and then log onto your Mac remotely and run FM Pro on your Mac ( remotely) if you sust want access to the information on it ) It is not generally not recommended for FM Pro to run on the same (windows ) machine as FM Server because it causes problems, but you could run a virtual windows machine ( with FM PRo in it )if your server is powerful enough. If you want your FM Pro to host the database, you need a client - another FM Pro installation It has no ability to open and interact with files on its own.įM Pro can be a client or a host ( although only for 10 users) You cannot do that - the software is not designed to be used this way.įM Server has no front end - it can only be a host of files, not a client.

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