Hello, is there a way to access two different mailboxes, each with a different user ID, in the same time? I have one mailbox and user ID in my company and another mailbox and user ID in a company I’m outsourced into and I’d like to access both these mails.
As far as I know I can switch to another user ID but I’d need either to “open” my contractor user ID while also keeping my internal user ID or run two instances of LN8, one for each user ID. Is this possible somehow?
Since I work under Linux, I used to run a 2nd instance of LN8 under another user but displayed on my desktop (using sux) to access the other mailbox but since a recent system update LN8 will start but after providing my credentials its window will disappear though it’s still running.
You help would be greatly appreciated. /JH
Subject: it’s very easy
best way is make several data directory and notes ini (similar to partition and multi user install)end create link to nlnotes.exe specifying each notes.ini (like this
1 - D:\inikiforov\lotus\notes8\nlnotes.exe “=D:\inikiforov\lotus\notes\notes.ini”
2 - D:\inikiforov\lotus\notes8\nlnotes.exe “=D:\inikiforov\lotus\notes\notes2.ini”)
Ugly way make full copy of existing client and modify notes.ini and shortcut(you need nlnotes.exe , not notes.exe)
Subject: Does it work with 2 different Sametime accounts as well?
I’ve been looking for this solution for running 2 instances of Lotus Notes. Will this multiple notes.ini solution work for a different Sametime account under each instance of Lotus Notes as well?
Subject: Doesn’t work for me 
Thank you for your suggestion but unfortunately it doesn’t work for me. I don’t know whether this is because different LN version (8.5), OS (Ubuntu) or the executable I call.
When I run the 2nd instance of LN like this:
/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/notes “=/home/jholy/lotus2/notes/data/notes.ini”
then the only thing that happens is that a popup window in the running LN appears reading “File /home/jholy/lotus/notes/data/=/home/jholy/lotus2/notes/data/notes.ini does not exist.”
So clearly the executable ‘notes’ finds a running instance and pass its arguments to it where they’re interpreted as files under the lotus data directory.
I wish the command line options, notes.ini lookup and usage were documented thoroughly somewhere
Subject: You need to use nlnotes, not notes (at least in Windows)
In Windows, there’s a notes.exe and nlnotes.exe. The “notes” executable will check for a program running, and not allow a second to be launched, while “nlnotes” allows multiple simultaneous instances.You may be running into something similar. I do not know if the same functionality exists in Linux.
Subject: Citrix, VMWare, or browser access would work
Subject: no way to run two instances of LN?
So you mean there is no way to run two instances of LN?