Chapter 16. Networking
FileMaker’s networking abilities make it easy for PCs and Macs to share the same FileMaker database file. Inevitably, layouts will not look exactly the same on each platform. And since the Windows and Mac operating systems use different default fonts—and render them at 96 dpi on Windows and 72 dpi on Macs—text may also appear a bit differently. In some cases, this will force you to add a bit more space to tight Mac-generated layouts used on Windows machines. But, overall, the FileMaker match across platforms is pretty close. Since FileMaker 6 sticks with the .fp5 format used in FileMaker 5 and 5.5, anyone on the network using version 5 or newer can access the same files.
To host a file simply means being the first user to ...
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