jameshoty Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Hi I have a FM Server 13 with 5 concurrent license. Can I purchase (e.g.) 30 MirrorSync licenses to work with this server, assuming only 5 users can only sync with the server at the same time? And I wish to know also if the MirrorSync license is for 1 year or perpetual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanseeds Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 MirrorSync only communicates with FMS via the XML Web Publishing Engine or JDBC, so it doesn't count towards your concurrent connections. Therefore, your example of 30 syncing users would be fine, even if they're syncing simultaneously. And if you have a license for MirrorSync 2, it will be good forever for any version of MirrorSync 2. If/when we update to MirrorSync 3, you would need to upgrade your license to use that version, but it would still work for version 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameshoty Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 Thanks for clarification. Let say if I have 30 mobile users, I download it to Dropbox and send an invite to these 30 users. When they make the first sync, their devices will be registered and I can view it from the MirrorSync > Licensing. My question is : How do I recognise which device belongs to which user since the device name is not within my control. Also, how do I prevent "UN-authorised" device from being registered. Is this done through login authentication within my fmp solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanseeds Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 When a user performs an initial sync, she must have already authenticated for the FileMaker solution already. Then, at the beginning of the sync, she would be prompted to enter both a device identifier, and a password for her current account. The sync identifier is displayed in the Licensing window, and by default is something like "<username>'s ProAdvanced 13.0v3", so if your user's local machine's username aren't descriptive, you may ask them to put their full name in, instead. MirrorSync then uses the user-provided password to authenticate on the hub database, under the same account the user is logged into in their local file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameshoty Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 If I buy 10 licenses for my users, is the license meant for a particular file solution (e.g. abc.fmp12) or I can use for more (e.g. abc.fmp12, ghk.fmp12, mno.fmp12 and xyz.fmp12)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan360Works Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Each solution will need it's own configuration. If you buy 10 device licenses, those licenses can be used across configurations as long as they are the same devices. For example, if you have configuration a,b,and c, device 1 can sync to all of those configurations and only count as 1 license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameshoty Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 Hi Ryan, Take for an example, if I have a FM Server 13 and currently hosting solution for 3 clients. In such case, what license model I should buy? Assume 5 users for each of my client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan360Works Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 You would need to buy a configuration for each solution and a device license for each unique device. MirrorSync comes with one free FileMakerServer -> FileMakerPro/Go configuration and one free device license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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