FMP Licensing on a terminal server

[laker_42]

IF install FMP 7 on a terminal server and plan on having 25 people access FMP on this TS server, do I need to have 25 FMP licenses? If anyone has a definite answer on this, I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

John

[laker_42]

I called FMP and they said that if you have a volume license, you can install it on the Terminal Server without buying licenses for every user connecting to TS.

Thought I would pass it along incase someone else has the same question.

John

[jimkent]

yes, but what if only one of your users are going to use it? or what if one user at a time uses it? Has anyone tried this?

[Batfastad]

With FileMaker 5.5 or 6 installed on our terminal server (we don't have a volume license yet unfortunately) only one person can access the database at a time.

FileMaker starts, then closes if someone else tries to get in to the databases whilst another terminal services user is using it.

There are 7 accounts on our terminal server and if noone is in the databases, any one of those 7 users can open it!

Although I did something clever. Installed an old copy of FileMaker 5.5 and FileMaker 6 on the terminal server.

Then you can have 2 users accessing the databases at the same time, on the same computer!!

I had to write a clever startup script to detect whether filemaker 5.5 or 6 is open, to open the other. I used a freeware thing called AutoIt to make a small text file with the opened version in it so then I just open the other version.

Not sure if this would work with filemaker 7 though.

Still in 6 territory here.

HTH

Batfastad

[Batfastad]

So just to recap...

If you just have one license of filemaker installed on the terminal server, only one person can use it at a time.

But that one person can be any username.

HTH

Batfastad

[laker_42]

Unless you have a volume license. Then as many users as you want can access it.

John

[Keith LaMarre]

Laker 42 is correct - if you have a volume license version of FileMaker, as many people as you want can access the databases.

However, FileMaker's official stance its that you are legally supposed to purchase the site license for as many users as would possibly use fileMaker - their old policy (with FM 6) was that if you could legally have 10% more users than the license you purchased - if you bought a license for 50 users, you could legally have up to 55 - not 55 concurrently - 55 total.

In any case, the application doesn't actually check the number of users connected so 100 users coould be connected and it wouldn't know.