Since we’re rolling out our new laptops with bluetooth onboard we received several calls from our users because they were concerned about the Notes-password prompt.
When Notes is launched, a Dos-window appears and prompts for the Notes password.
The application calling this window is ‘BTSTACKSERVER.exe’ and is shown in the DOs-Box as BTSTACK~1.exe.
Once entered the password, the box disappears.
I found a workaround:
In Security options switch on → “don’t prompt for a password for other Notes-based programs”
however, I still wonder why this prompt was there in the first place?
What does the bluetooth has to do with Notes and what exactly is happening in the background to require this password?
obviously some Bluetooth driven service is trying to access your Notes PIM data, i.e. your personal address book and/or your Notes calendar. I installed a bluetooth USB stick in my notebook the other day and later on realized that I now had an entry “bluetooth” below Notes’ actions menu if a certain kind of content was active in Notes (e.g. a calendar view).Since Notes supports SynCML synchronisation of PIM data it is possible to synch calendars, address books etc. between other bluetooth driven devices and your Notes setup.
What I find strange is that the service - whatever it is - is trying to connect to Notes all by itself. At my setup I have SyncML connections to Notes explicitly enabled, and still the service is NOT trying to connect without me telling it to do so.
What I would do was look into the services list and check for anything that sounds like bluetooth, SyncML, PIM or similar, see what it does, and if it helps to set the startup mode to “manual” (assuming these are windows machines).
What do you mean “notes supports SyncML”. Is there SyncML support built into Domino or what?
I have searched for info about SyncML support but haven’t been able to find any info about this (I also posted question on the Beta forum since they had promised SyncML functionality vor version 6).
Just wanted to add that my company has two laptops which experience the same problem. Interestingly both have PDA sync software installed. Does not seem to matter if they are on the network or not. Only way to get Notes up is to kill the Btstack~1 task before trying to load it.
Come on IBM/Lotus. If Dell can solve the problem (see earlier posting) so should you!
Just installed Service Pack 2 for XP to my laptop. Interestingly there does not seem to be any need to shut down the BTSTAC~1 process any more before loading Notes. Problem seems to have been solved by Microsoft. Should have known it was their fault in the first place!