How can I open multi sessions of Lotus Notes of 8.01 while I installed a single client on windows XP?
And is it possible to login multiple Lotus IDs on a single client simultaneously…???
Subject: You can if you create multiple data directories, but you can have only one “Standard” client running.
Make one or more copies of the existing Notes\Data folder. For Instance:
c:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data
c:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data2 (you can call this anything you like)
c:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data3 (you can call this anything you like)Copy the notes.ini file from the …\Lotus\Notes folder into each of the new data folders.
Update the Notes.ini file in each data folder to reflect any new paths as required
Create a shortcut for each new data folder:
“c:\Program Files\lotus\notes\nlnotes.exe” “=c:\Program Files\lotus\notes\Data2\notes.ini”
“c:\Program Files\lotus\notes\nlnotes.exe” “=c:\Program Files\lotus\notes\Data3\notes.ini”
- Note that the placement of the quotes and the equals sign is important. Also note that you must use nlnotes.exe instead of notes.exe
The standard client with the original data folder will run as before. Can can then start up a new instance using either of the other shortcuts, which will open Notes in basic mode. You can switch ID’s to your hearts content and run two, three, or more clients simultaneously.
This configuration is not supported by Lotus and you may find you have some issues. For instance, when I open a bookmark in the standard client with the subsequent client instances running, Notes tries to open the database in one of the other instances. I get around this by right-clicking on the bookmark, selecting open replica and choosing a server (or local). For some reason, it opens in the proper client this way.
Steve
Subject: Thanks for your support
Thanks Steve its working, now I am able to run multiple concurrent sessions of different users.
Sajjad Sarwar
Subject: Response
You can install Notes as a multiuser installation and allow multiple users to each launch Notes with a separate data directory, but you can’t just launch multiple Notes instances concurrently or have several IDs active at the same time. Perhaps some elaboration about your goal would lead to an acceptable solution.