Just a quick question: I have a global container (Text). It is in a database FMP Pro 5.5 that is served up on our local network.

If I make changes to the global field on the host machine, not a problem. But if I access the database from any other machines on the network and make a change to the global field, the change does not seem to be "Global" across all the records.

Is this just the nature of the beast?

LR

As far as I know, global fields are global per user, not for everyone.

Right... global fields are "global" across records for a user, but each users' value may be different. But I think all users start with whatever value was last set on the host machine (or something like that). So, that may be the source of your somewhat different behavior when using the host machine.

But in any case, during a user session, the value of a global should not be changing record-to-record.

Globals will default to the last value entered into them when they were directly opened by a copy of Filemaker Pro. In multi-user mode the globals are only save for the current user/session. As soon as you close a DB the globals revert to thier default state.