What kind of network / file server will run Facil multi-user?
A 100 megabit per second Ethernet network with a dedicated file server is recommended. A server running a full scale network operating system such as Microsoft Windows Server (or Windows Small Business Server) will support Facil data file sharing and provide security and other network services. Facil will also run on a peer-to-peer network without a dedicated server, but you should consider the following in making any decision about networking: A peer-to-peer network is a group of computers that can communicate and share files from any computer to any other computer. All Windows networks have this capability, whether there is a server in the network or not. If there is no dedicated file server, that is if you have ONLY peer-to-peer networking, then you will be placing the shared data file on one of your Windows workstations and it will be read from there by all the users. In this situation the workstation holding the shared file is not dedicated to the task of being the “server”. If, f
