FM help shows nothing. I have established Accounts and Passwords but when they log in, it inserts a default name (old name taken from computer somewhere?). Users don't want to keep having to put this in each time. They want it to remember what that computer used last time it logged into FM. Is this possible? It's probably staring me in the face.

The proposed Account name is is the User Name that is set up in Application Preferences. So you will have to set set that on each computer. This may not be what you want.

So, if I understand this, I will need to change each person's Opener file File Options to 'Login Using Account Name' and specify it there, but with no Password? And then the Opener file will present this Account name in the dialog and handle it from there? I'm using Vaughan's Opener.

I can not test it at the moment. Thank you, Ralph!!

I was not able to do this. You can test the opener on your own machine; even though it would be targetted differently on a network, this part of it would work more or less the same.

The basic problem is that FileMaker wants the Account Name AND the Password in the File, Options. It will not let you put just the Account Name but no password. Even if you try to trick it and use a password that is valid for the Opener, but not valid for the Main file, it does not pass the Account Name to the Main file's dialog; it reverts back to the User Name.

So, all and all it appears you must set the User Name to the same as the Account Name if you want it to be there and still ask for a Password.

On the plus side, it means you don't have to create different openers, because they can be all the same, ie., open as guests. The Main file will then popup the login dialog, with their User Name as the Account Name (the UserName is read from the Client computer).

A related note:

In OSX you can set a keychain with the username and password, then depend on the OSX login to control access.

So, if I understand this, I will need to change each person's Opener file File Options to 'Login Using Account Name' and specify it there, but with no Password?

Not exactly... the default user name that pops up can be changed in Application Preferences. By default, it comes from your OS X user name, or some equivalent on windows, but you can override in application preferences. Any user can change this.

Try using external authentication and Single Sign On instead.

Steven