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Re: Filemaker and dropbox problems

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On 2018-01-07 10:00:23 +0000, Los_Indios said:
> 
> Helpful Harry thanks for your support, generally speaking.
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> on January 2017 someone called me to upgrade his databases to FileMaker 
> 14. The installation had one server at the lower appartment where 
> located all the customer's support services. All machines (Mac) 
> communicate to each other via wireless network and the router connected 
> to the Internet using an ISP.
> At the upper appartment, completely separated phisically and 
> mecanically from the lower appartment using an OTHER ISP and cables 
> totally unrelated to the lower section, there were located the economic 
> services of the company. They thought that this way none can aproach 
> the economic information of the company.
> It was very funny to see that the P2P networking system of FMP14 
> wireleslly found the other network via WiFi when I search for the path 
> of the original files in the wireless netweork. All economic records 
> were in my hands and Reversely.
> NO they are NOT using FMPS14 just the ability of a simple FMP to work 
> as a server for 5 files. The installation uses 5 databases at the lower 
> appartment and 3 databases at the upper appartment and all of them 
> commmunicate to each other without any obstagles.
> I don’t know how much I helped to solve your problem, I simply report 
> because it has relation with the way that FMP manages the networked 
> connections.
> 
> Happy New Year
> Manos

You don't specifically need a FileMaker Pro Server running. For only a 
few users you can use a normal copy of FileMaker Pro to act as the 
"host" for the other copies to access, but you need to remember that 
computer always needs to be last one to quit from FileMaker Pro or be 
shutdown.

FileMaker Pro databases should *always* be either stored locally or 
hosted by a copy of FileMaker Pro / FileMaker Pro Server for other 
network users to access. To stop unauthorised access, you need to 
set-up the database's user passwords and privileges properly.

What you're NOT meant to do is store FileMaker database files on a 
normal network fileserver system and open them by simply 
double-clciking them or using the standard Open command. Doing so can 
cause database file corruption.


Helpful Harry  :o)

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