Peer-to-Peer Hosting

Peer-to-peer deployment enables a small number of workers to share a solution, without the cost of setting up and maintaining a dedicated server. You can turn any single- user solution into a peer-to-peer solution simply by turning on FileMaker Networking and adding the fmapp Extended Privilege to one or more privilege sets.

To learn more about Extended Privileges, see Chapter 12, "Implementing Security," p. 315 .

Peer-to-peer deployment is often found in small organizations or departments where only a handful of users need access to shared data. The database usually physically lives on one person's machine or on a file server. The first person to open the file is known as the host ; other users who access it are