Can client run on a server system?

[wplate]

Can FileMaker Pro 8 (client) be installed on the same computer that is running FileMaker Server Advanced? The idea would be the client would interact with the databased hosted by the server.

[Ender]

While FileMaker client can be installed on the server machine, it should not be used to open databases that are actively being hosted by Server.

[wplate]

thanks for the reply. I will have another computer be the client, then, and connect over the network to the server.

[Søren Dyhr]

You can fool filemaker into believeing that it exists on it's own, by running two or more operatingsystems via VMWare ...read on:

http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/

But while it's pretty cheap on it's own, must the cost of the ownership of several operatingsystems be brought into the equation as well.

--sd