Running a solution over a network

[Bikeman17]

Hi there,

A guy wants to operate a solution over a Windows network. He got 2 copies of FileMaker and the solution. Please read the comments he submitted:

Does the app require a network in a domain environment? Or can it run simply inside a workgroup? XP Home edition is installed on two machines.

Do I need to run the program from within a shared directory? How do both computers see the data otherwise?

Any help is welcome

[RalphL]

FMP has its own sharing, do not use OS sharing. Open FMP on one machine and use the host button to share. I would put the fmp files in an unshared folder.

[stanley]

Bikeman:

The FMP documentation is quite clear on this - the chapter on sharing databases is only four or five pages long, and it is very simple to implement.

-Stanley