Domain Search in the Notes Client - How do we do it?

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Hi there, I have a problem, I am trying to set up a Domain Search to be able to do a full text search across multiple database on the Notes Client. I have read in the help and tried to get it to work and so far, no success, can anyone help me or point me to a procedure or something to do that? I have very little experience on the administration side of Notes…

Here is what I have done so far:

  • I have changed the Server Document to put the “Domain Catalog” to “Enabled” in the Server Task

  • I have set the “Server Indexer” to “Enabled” in the server task

  • I have created my Domain Catalog (we already had a DB Catalog) by following what was said in the admin help

  • I have set the property “Include in Mult-Database Indexig” on my two database to be included (so far there are only two, others are going to be added once I get this working)

  • I have been on the console and did a “Load Catalog” but I get an error saying

“Servername: The remote server is not a known TCP/IP Host”

and

“Unable to update catalog: The remote server is not a known TCP/IP host.”

  • I have tried the bit of code in the help to do the actual search using the FTDomainSearch method of the NotesDatabase (the catalog) but it gives me an error about no documents.

I feel like I am way in over my head, and I already have spent more time than I should have on this, can someone help me please?

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Subject: Domain Search in the Notes Client - How do we do it?

Hello Alain,

Here is a great technote with steps by steps instructions on how to enable domain indexing

Lotus Software Knowledge Base Document

Title: Step-by-step guide to setting up Domain Indexing

Doc #: 1280065

URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21280065

Regarding the error message you are getting “The remote server is not a known TCP/IP host.” it sounds like a dns issue. If you were to try to do a trace to the server is domino successful in connecting to it? You can also try to ping the server name from the command prompt of your windows machine. Is the correct ip being returned? If not you might want to add an alias to your dns server.

Another quick solution would be to add a connection document to the server with the ip address specified in the optional network address field.