[FX.php List] Strange occurrence w/ FMP8 databases

[Bob Patin]

Hi Dale,

> I'm not sure there's anything inherently bad about having file  
> sharing turned on. It's what people might do with it that's a  
> problem. I think file sharing is traditionally bad for three reasons:
>
> 1. It's possible that someone might navigate to the FMP files and  
> open them across the network, instead of connecting via FileMaker  
> Server. This is a recipe for certain, catastrophic carnage.

Not a problem here since I'm the only one with that type of access...  
although I do move files around from time to time, with a bonded T1  
it's not a huge issue. I also use file sharing to mount external  
machines for doing my server backups; the script I use saves to a 2nd  
internal drive, then moves a copy to a separate machine. Without file  
sharing, I'd lose that really great method for doing FileMaker  
backups. With almost 40 servers to maintain, it's a lot to keep  
backed up... :)

Best,

Bob Patin
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>
> 2. It's also possible that someone writing a file via file sharing  
> might stomp on FileMaker's temp/cache files. My gut tells me this  
> would be more of a problem under OS9 than OS X. I worked with a  
> couple clients (back in the OS9 days) that had file sharing turned  
> on for everyone so they could move files around easily. There were  
> lots of crashes, even if no one was moving files on and off the  
> Mac. I could increase the stability of a Mac by just shutting off  
> file sharing. If a Mac got flakey again, you could bet it was  
> because the user of that machine had turned file sharing back on.
>
> 3. File sharing takes network bandwidth away from your FileMaker  
> stuff while people are moving files. (I come from a publishing  
> background, where moving files to and from a server is easily many,  
> many gigabytes every day.)


>
> With OS X, I find it very convenient to use SFTP instead of AFP to  
> connect. I recommend Transmit as an SFTP (and FTP) client.
>
> Dale

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