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- From: Mark.Tucker@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Tucker)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR SETTING UP FILE
- Message-ID: <713788588.F00004@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:57:19 -0500
- Lines: 20
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- > 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.
- >
- > Just my $0.02 worth.
- > --
-
- We currently have FileMaker Pro running on our EtherNet with no porblems. There
- are always at least 3 users connected, and up to as many as 8. We have never
- expeirenced any data loss or corruption. One thing to keep in mind is that
- whoever opens the file first becomes the host and can not quit out of the file
- until all of the guests have. To solve this problem we have the file open in
- the background on our server under system 7 all of the time. This way the
- server is always the host.
-
-