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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: Any suggestions for setting up Filemaker Pro?
- Message-ID: <D2150035.auf2bk@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 06:08:11 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- davids@gardener.lanl.gov (David Simmons) writes:
- >
- >Be VERY Careful of setting up a FM Pro database across a network.
- >Small abberations in your network can cause catasrophic data losses.
- >Claris' suggestion is to have a dedicated server for FM Pro [sic]. I don't
- >know about you, but we didn't want to shell out for a Mac *just* for
- >FM Pro. In my experience, and I am only one datapoint, FM Pro is
- >NOT very stable over a shared network, especially if multiple users
- >are sharing the file simultaneously.
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- I've used FIleMaker in a networked environment and it worked very
- well. Of course, the server machine wasn't doing much else besides
- being a low use File Sharing server too.
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- Pick up an old SE/30, this makes an excellent server. Even a new
- Classic II does a passable job.
-
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