Mulit User setting

[ngwaltne]

Here's a rookie question. If I use the FM Server do I still have to include a Set to Multi User [on] step in the files and their scripts?

Thank you in advance.

[andygaunt]

Absolutely.

FM Server just serves the files to the guests.

Multi user allows all the guests to see and use all the files.

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by Andy Gaunt:

Multi user allows all the guests to see and use all the files.

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Well not quite.

Multi-user allows multiple users to access the file at the same time.

Multi-user (Hidden) allows multiple users to access the file at the same time, but the file will not be displayed in the Hosts list.

Single-user allows only one guest to use the file at a time.

Filemaker Server 5 allows you to server single-user files as well as multi-user files.

[Alan Betts]

In answer to the original question - yes - you do need to set multi user on in all shared files.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

There is some confusion here. FileMaker Server can host files that are set to Single User. I do not recommend this as a practice though. If the file is hosted, it is available to all who can connect, NOT just to one user at a time.

HTH

Old Advance Man