Remote server for small number of clients

[goanna300]

My client has moved to another city and has started another branch. She now wants to move her FP7 solution to a server.

They are an advertising company. They will be filling container fields with PDF copy. There will be maybe for 5 client machines in one city, just one (Manager)at first in another...

Questions:

1)Can they make do with an ordinary OSX machine, or will they need OSX server?

2)How (excuse my ignorance) will remote users log in? Using the server's IP address?

Steve

[Vaughan]

I'm running FMS 7 on a plain Jaguar clint install and it's stabe.

Users can log-in with the IP address, but most probably the FM server host will just appear in the list, unless there is a router between the server and the clients.

[Cardiofuse]

Will the remote client select/file/open remote/view local hosts or view favorite hosts?

....and under favorite setting is the host internet address the known ip address (not the local 192.168....?

[John May - Point In Space]

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to save money on the server hardware, FileMaker Server (Advanced) license, server maintenance and monitoring, etc. etc.

- John

[Cardiofuse]

I'm using Server 5.5 now (probably going to upgrade to version 7). I'm using a standard iMac as a server for 12 hospital databases. They have to select open remote and select the IP address of the server machine behind a router. They enter (unless you have it permanently entered it into specify host) the IP address of the known server machine (68.59.xxx.xxx) not the LAN IP address (192.168.xx.xx). I hope this helps. I'm not sure how this works in version 7 (I'm assuming you enter the IP in the favorite host pulldown).

[IdealData]

There's another question you should ask yourself...

Will the internet connections support the quantity of data that will be added or viewed. Whilst PDFs can be small, advertising copy will be bigger.

You also get the problem both ways...

The remote client can only send data to the server at the maximum upload speed (typically 256kb), and the same is true of the server when it delivers the record to the remote client.

I have remote workers, but we use Timbuktu onto a local machine.