How/Where (which setting) do I set the server/client so that the server always hosts certain files regardless of which client opens the file first?

Yes, I do have Filemaker Server. I placed the file to be opened in the server application directory (per the FM Server manual). Then, I opened the file on a client PC. The client PC indicates that it will be the host of the file. Any ideas?

[ December 12, 2001: Message edited by: jma ]

When you open the file on the client's PC, use the File->Open Remote... command (FMP 5.5) or File->Open...->Hosts button (FMP 5.0, 4.x). Don't double-click on the file on the network server or on their local disk.

IMPORTANT:

Scour your network volumes and client hard disks for all other copies of the databases and either zip or delete them. You've gotta make sure that the *only* copy of the database that users can possiblly open is the one hosted on your FM Server. Otherwise it becomes a nightmare: users will complain that records they entered aren't in the database anymore (because they enetered them into a different database that they or some other person randomly opened).

Also make sure that you open the files ONLY with Filemaker Server. In fact it is best to put the databases on the local drive and that drive NOT be shared, so that there is ZERO chance of a user opening those files.

Only FM Server should be opening the files directly.

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Originally posted by jma:

How/Where (which setting) do I set the server/client so that the server always hosts certain files regardless of which client opens the file first?

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Huh?

Do you have Filemaker Server? If so you store the files in a place that only Filemaker Server has access to and it opens the files. Then a Filemaker Pro client opens the files off of the FM Server via the Hosts button.