Networking Photo Database: Best Practices?

[nadia808]

I posted once before, but decided to take a step back and post a more general question.

I want to use the Photo Catalog template to create a Photo Database with more detailed fields. Am I correct in assuming the following:

1) Create the photo database from the template, then place it in the Filemaker Server 5.5 folder on our FM Server computer. This way, the Filemaker clients can "see" the database when you go to Open External File >> Hosts.

2) All referenced photos should reside on the network (in this case, a MAC server) so that all computers can "see" the photos.

Is this all correct so far? My main concern at the moment is that some users are able to access the database, but other users log-in to the SAME client computer, and the database either runs EXTREMELY slow, or freezes up.

[Nicholas Lue]

Check out Troi plugin, it will make a small thumbnail that stays in the database file rather than references the big picture. When filemaker has to draw thumbnails over a network, it gets really slow.