At 7:11 PM -0400 4/17/01, Holly Ross wrote:
>Hey folks -
>
>I'm working with a group that has two office locations and needs to share
>ebase. One office has DSl and a static IP address. In the other office,
>the four workstations need to dial up for access (it's MT, not a lot of DSL
>out there yet!).
>
>Right now, they've been emailing the database back and forth and it isn't
>owkring too well.
>
>The only thing I can think to advise right now is that the DSL office
>shouldpublish it to the Web (they have FMPro 5) and the dial-uup office can
>access it across the Internet. I hear it's a deathly slow method though.
>Any ideas?
First off, FileMaker's web publishing can't make all of the ebase
script and button functionality accessible to the remote location.
Best it can do is access to a limited number of layouts,
"fill-in-the-form kind of access.
To get the full ebase and functions, you'll need to set up FileMaker
for file sharing using TCP/IP. All the stations will need a copy of
fileMaker, and preferably FileMaker server at the host site. And it
will be horrendously slow over a dial-up. I usually expect 5 to 7
minutes for a full startup over DSL.
What work is done in each location? Could the site with four stations
be the "host", where most of the work gets done, and provide limited
access from the other site via web hosting or a separate rolodex file
set up to share?
--
Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338
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