Hi

we're going to move to Xservers and I'm aware that FMS should run as the only serverapp on any machine - but it seems that Xservers have way too much capacity for just FMS. Will running Apache and maybe a mailserver affect the speed of FMS?

We are currently running FMS on a G4, but are replacing al G4's with Xservers.

Any input on this?

My own opinion is that an XServe is way overkill for FMS. I'd seriously consider leaving the FMS on the G4.

Hi captkurt,thanks for that comment. I was thinking the same actually but thought that maybe Xserve would add some more power to the FMS.

The G4 that I could hang onto is a 533, which currently runs OSX.2.4. Is there a performance difference between the darwin and server version for FMS?

Or should I just keep on running regular Jaguar?

TIA

JP

I have various G4 and G3 on an Ethernet Network with AppleTalk and AppleShare IP running 9.2. I want to add FM Server on a new G4 running system X. I installed the Server software on this machine and I can't keep the Server running (it stops after about 15 seconds). I have place the multiuser file(s) inside the same folder but no good. I want remote users on their local PCs to be able to use this database(s) via TCP/IP. Could you help with the settings on my internet/network control panel. Thanks.

USE MAC OS X, NOT MAC OS X SERVER. According to the people at FileMaker, Mac OS X Server is different than Mac OS X. Though FMS appears to work under Mac OS X Server, there are several additional daemons loaded. Following advice that FMS be the ONLY service running on your server to achieve the best performance, removing all unnecessary daemons would simply mean spending more time stripping the Mac OS X Server down to the point where it is no different than Mac OS X.

Make sure you update server to 5.5v4!