I have a timecard setup on my filemaker server, and all the employees have filemaker on their computers - so they connect to the server, log into the timecard file, click the button with theire name on it and view their time cards, and finally punch in. That's how it's spose'd to work anyway...

A few people have found out that if they change the time on their computer, they can mask the fact that they have been coming in late - because the timecards are taking the time on the users machine instead of from the server.

So, my question - How do I fix this so the time is read from the the server and not the user's machine?

HELP!

Thank You

I. Jones

Each user's computer should be set to get its time from the server. From the command prompt, for each client,

net start w32time

However,

Users can change their own time

Windows Time does not restrict manual date and time changes. This presents obvious security and audit problems, since date and time stamps in all programs can be doctored.

( http://www.greyware.com/software/domaintime/product/w32time.asp )

That is, since w32time queries a time server periodically, if the user manually changes the time in the middle of that period, he can still spoof a punch-in time.

Do you know of a command that queries the time server? If so, maybe I. Jones could script it so that query runs immediately before the user punches in. I don't know if this will work, but i found a suggestion from google:

net time /querysntp:192.168.x.x

where 192.68.x.x is the IP address of the time server.

Would that work?

J

Hi I!

Unfortunately, there is no built-in functionality in FM5/6 to get the server's time (FM7 has this ability.)

Some nice people at FileMaker Inc. once offered me an unsupported plugin to do this, but it didn't work in OS X, so I didn't keep it. There may be a plugin for sale out there somewhere that can do this, or perhaps FileMaker Inc. still has one they can give you.

Filemaker 7 eh? I may have to upgrade. I am running my server on OS X as well, so this plugin might not work for me either.