How to use group defined in corporate address book in database deployed on another server

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Need your help in a domino application -

I wanted to know can we use groups defined in WW Public Distribution List database for ACL purposes.I have a domino database deployed in one of our internal servers (ISLPUNE).

I can add users defined in corporate address book by simply searching for users and clicking add in my database ACL,

  1. We have a mailing group “Lab Services & Solutions-India” defined in WW Public Distribution List database, This is a nested group. I want to use this group to define access permission’s in the internal domino database hosted in ISLPune Server. However I am facing some challenge while adding group ACL to this DB.

I checked the group details in WW PDL, it is mail only group, I suppose we do not have option of creating multipurpose group in WWPDL DB, My understanding was that these databases gets replicated routinely to IBM mail servers, not too sure though… I opened IBM address book on server, but couldnt find the entry… However we generally use this group to send mails to ppl in our team.

I tried adding entry in the database ACL as a group, which is not working. I checked with domino administrator of the ISLPune server, who mentioned that since the group is not replicated to this server, it would not be able to resolve names present in this mailing group. The option of recreating a group in the ISLPune server would not help as every time some change is made on the original group list, changes would need to be made manually, and the updates would not be replicated. Do we have option of replicating IBM address book and would that be helpful provided we have group defined in WW Public Distribution List DB ?

  1. Please suggest - can we only use the groups for database ACL that are defined in this server (ISLPune) or any group in the IBM address book can be used.

  2. Would it be possible to write a script/agent to replicate the group from WWPDL to ISLPune server. I dont think ISLPuen server would be added to WWPDL DB and would have read/other access.

We need to roll out this database asap, Can you suggest me a possible workaround to create/replicate/use the mailing group for database.

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Subject: Re: How to use group defined in corporate address book in database deployed on another server.

A group that is ‘mail-only’ CANNOT be used as a ACL-Entry.You seem to use several directories. I persume they are connected with directory assistance. If you are able to select the external addressbook out of your mail (and group auth. is enabled), then you can use all reachable groups and do NOT have to copy them to another address book.

To use the specific group you MUST switch it to ‘multi purpose’ (check also nested groups).

The other possibility is to write a scheduled script which would synchronise 2 groups (with different names!!!). Pay attention on infinite loops.