Rachel SCUK

Cheers to everyone for your help. Rachel

Thank you all for your replies, although I am still unclear on a number of points. Liveoak mentioned three things I am doing wrong, and others have agreed with him. 1) Using a client copy of FM as the host, rather than FM server. Is it really worth investing in FM server for such a small office? At the most there are six people using the databases. I don

We have a client copy of FM on the iMac "Server". Normally we open the files through aliases and hot keys which would be essentially the same as double-clicking on the file to launch. Why is this a problem? I don't understand what you are saying about turning filesharing off. On the server or the client? If on the server, how can we then access anything on it? Cheers, Rachel

On some days, when the computer is feeling more temperamental than other days, when we try and open our main database, a message pops up " 'Client gen info' is currently in use and could not be opened. The file is single-user or the host could not be found on the network" The server *is* on the network, and our way round it is to open it through filemaker, via clicking on 'host'. This always works, so it's not a huge problem, just abit annoying. Especially when you have to do the same for all the related databases which open with it. Our office has 5 client iMacs working on 1 server iMac, connected via TCP/IP (although the same thing used to happen when we were connected via appletalk). We use FM 5. Non overly-technical explanations welcome. Cheers.