I've never used Terminal Services, but I'm pretty sure you can run multiple
copies. What happens is that as a user logs in, a virtual Windows session
is created and the user can run whatever applications are made available.
Multiple users can log in and run apps independently. It's a licensing, not
a technical, issue about running multiple copies of Filemaker.
If you have lots of people logged in, you need lots of processing power
because everyone is sharing the same machine. This is a situation where
people buy big, expensive, multi-processor servers.
If you have just a few remote users, why not dedicate a few $500 Win98 boxes
and run PC Anywhere, Laplink, or Timbuktu? It's a lot cheaper and easier to
manage.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walt Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:41 PM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] Re: Windows 2000 Terminal Services
>
>
>
> > The real problem is that filemaker pro is not a good software
> platform for
> > remote access because it wants to hand you all the records in the
> > database,
> > whether you want them all or not.
> >
>
> Not true for Terminal Services, the only bits that move across the
> connection are those needed to show the bits on the screen. All the
> functionality is back at the ranch. In effect the client is still in the
> local area. It is as if you had a very long wire on your display and
> keyboard. No part of FileMaker or ebase is at the remote site or needed
> there. From this it follows that you are tying up the copy of FileMaker on
> the local machine. You can't run two copies of FileMaker on a single
> machine.
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