How to lock OS X server console without quitting FileMaker Server

[bwillett]

Anyone know of a way to leave FileMaker Server 5.5 running without having the administrator logged into the OS X computer it's running on?

Our FM server is going into a 'secure' server room shared by administrators from various departments and I would like to prevent the casually curious from easily browsing the contents of the server.

The only option I can think of is to require a password to clear the screensaver, but I would rather not have to leave the Administrator account logged into the machine at all if this is possible.

[Fisherman]

Go to the following web site, and follow the directions. It is a pretty good article on launching FMP 5.5 at startup in OS X.

http://www.afp548.com/Articles/system/fmpserver.html

Hope this helps.

[bwillett]

Thanks for the link Fisherman.

I discovered something missing from the instructions you pointed me to:

After creating the FMPServer and StartupParameters.plist files, and then editing the hostconfig file per the instructions, you must then do a chmod 755 on the FMPServer file to make it executable.

I found this info after doing a search for in the forum for 'fmserverd':

http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=UBB27&Number=27463&page=&view=&sb=&o=