pc Client description in Server Event Logs

[brian rich]

We're using FMP11 Server Advanced on Windows Server with FMP11 on Windows 7 or XP computers or on a Windows terminal server.  We're analysing the Server Event Log files to look more closely about how the databases are being used.

 

The serve reports events such as 94 - Client "%1" opening database "%2" as "%3" where the % items are replaced with variable information, so %2 might become Parts List  and %3 might be engineering. 

 

%1 looks usually looks something like Production (TS1) [10.0.1.8]

 

Now we recognise (TS1) as the name of one of the computers in our network and [10.0.1.8] as an IP address.  However the name at the beginning of %1 isn't a name we recgnise - we had expected to see the users Windows Profile Name but some of them are unknown to us  - what data does FMP11 Server use to get that name? 

 

(There is no external access to the databases, access is only via our internal network and the computer names and IP addresses are entirely valid for these 'unknown' clients.)

 

Thanks

 

Brian

[Wim Decorte]

The first bit is the username that gets written to the preferences when FM is first installed, and that can be modified from the FileMaker Preferences.

 

If you want to control that then you can use a Windows startup script or a group policy that changes the registry value when the user logs into Windows.

[brian rich]

Thanks for that, I'll look at the group policy idea

 

Brian