How do you know which files are open?

[Vaughan]

I've just installed FM Server 5.5 on W2K Pro. It's pretty much up-and-running, but I'm puzzled to work out where the list of databases the Server has opened is found!

Thanks.

[Vaughan]

To answer my own question (partially) the list of files can be seen using the Remote Administration feature, but that's from another console. I wanna see the list from the server concole.

[Anatoli]

AFAIK you can't. FM didn't do that for service, which is faceless application, as you know.

[Vaughan]

Thanks, Anatoli. A really bad interface, huh? I guess I just have to check remotely, or just have faith!

Vaughan

[Anatoli]

I can agree with that. But I never had problems. Even it sounds strange, you must learn to trust this Microsoft/FileMaker duo.

On the other hand, service is great way of serving FileMaker files. Fast, lean, mean, no login, multithreaded, cannot be put in background etc...

Just strange at first

[Steven H. Blackwell]

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Originally posted by Vaughan:

I've just installed FM Server 5.5 on W2K Pro. It's pretty much up-and-running, but I'm puzzled to work out where the list of databases the Server has opened is found!

Thanks.

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As you've discovered it's thru Remote Admin. Only Mac OS 9 has local admin screen. All others, NT Server 4. W2K Server, and OS X, have the info available thru Remote Admin only.

FWIW, you can see what files FMP has opened easily by setting a global to the DesignFunction dbnames.

HTH

Old Advance Man