Branch office Notes access

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If you have a branch office with its own network and Internet access, how do you set up for them to link to the main office for their notes access?

The number of persons at the office is less than 10, hence, not justify in setting up a separately Notes server.

Your suggestion and experience would be useful.

Thanks

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Subject: Branch office Notes access

We have this situation :- Main office connected with 1Mbit SDSL - fixed ip’s

  • Branch office connected with cable (4Mbit down - 256Kbit up) - dynamic ip

  • There are about 8 people working remotely (but most of the time there are no more then 4 connected at the same time)

  • Most applications work at a descent speed (as long as there are no large attachments involved), when they’re accessed directly on the server. The ‘havier’ application are replicated to the local hard disk. Replication is very efficient in ND6.

  • We have also 2 home workers with an ADSL-connection (3Mbit down - 128Kbit up), with the same experiences as for the branch office.

  • Notes/Domino connections are quite secure (when using firewalls on both sides), but you should consider to use VPN, if security is an important issue for your company.

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Subject: RE: Branch office Notes access

You can set up each machine for offline usage.

By this I mean that you can have each machine replicate databases in the backgroung with the user is working. I have my laptop set up in this way. If you email me at vrivett@wadzi.biz I would be happy to send you a sample address book containing the location documents I use to achieve this. It might give you some idea as to how it works.

Regards

Vaughan Rivett