Re: "Getting started" guide for FoxTrot Pro peer-to-peer indexes?

[FoxTrot Engineering]

SpivR wrote:

>Evaluating moving from FoxTrot Personal to using 3-user FoxTrot
>Professional with peer-to-peer shared indexes.
>
>It is not clear to me how to do this - Do I use the server pull-down in
>FoxTrot to connect from one Mac to the others, or do I use file sharing to
>expose the FoxTrot index files that are local on the Mac to the other Macs?
>
>(I did a quick test using the "server" pulldown and I got a general "can't
>connect to server" error.)

- share your index on the first Mac: "Manage indices" window, "sharing" tab.

- then connect to it in the "search sources" pane on the other Mac.

Both Macs should be on the same local network, in order to discover each other automatically.

Maybe the "can't connect to server" error could be caused by a firewall? If you have enabled macOS's firewall, make sure that FTStarter.app and FTProFileIndexer.app are allowed, in the "firewall options" dialog. A system dialog should appear automatically the first time to ask for this permission.

Jérôme - CTM Engineering


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