Hi,
Completed the installation of Domino 6.5 (enterprise) on a debian linux (kernel 2.6.7) platform. As my ‘notes’ user, I am running up ‘server -listen’ in order to remotely configure the server. To configure, I am using the ‘Remote Server Setup’ utility on WinXP.
The problem I have, is that as soon as I connect I recieve the following dialog back from Remote Server Setup :
“The NOTES.INI file for this server is invalid”
Not sure how this is the case. The notes.ini file on the server is as follows :
[Notes]
Directory=/var/local/lotus.v6/bin
FaultRecovery_Build=Release 6.5
Timezone=-10
DST=0
DSTLAW=4,1,1,10,-1,1
FileDlgDirectory=/var/local/lotus.v6/notes/65000/linux
Also, dump of the logs generated on the server-side :
ServerConnectionManager.command request= READ_INI_VALUE
processing readINIValue
SetupProgressBar - initialize
SetupProgressBar.setServerConnectionManager
getNotesINIValue key= ServerSetup
No =notes.ini parm detected, trying the data directory
DefaultDataPath= /local/notesdata
Trying to opening notes.ini file at /local/notesdata/notes.ini
getNotesINIValue ServerSetup=null
ServerConnectionManager.command request= READ_INI_VALUE
processing readINIValue
getNotesINIValue key= KitType
No =notes.ini parm detected, trying the data directory
DefaultDataPath= /local/notesdata
Trying to opening notes.ini file at /local/notesdata/notes.ini
getNotesINIValue KitType=null
ServerConnectionManager.command request= DISCONNECT
processing Discconect
Client closing socket connection
Accepted new incoming socket connection
SetupProgressBar.setServerConnectionManager
ServerConnectionManager.listen()
ServerConnectionManager.command request= EXIT
Client terminated server
Client closing socket connection
endWizard
About to wait on DominoAPIThread.callAPI()
Woke up from wait on run
dominoAPI.run.endNotes
DominoAPI - endNotes terminating notes
Thread= Thread[Thread-1,5,main]
Deleting setup db
DominoAPI - deleteDB
Thread= Thread[Thread-1,5,main]
EndNotes Error - Can’t delete setup database
DominoAPI - endNotes NotesThread.stermThread()
About to notify api caller
About to wait on run
Woke in DominoAPIThread.callAPI()
About to wait on DominoAPIThread.callAPI()
Woke up from wait on run
dominoAPI.run.term
About to notify api caller
Woke in DominoAPIThread.callAPI()
I can put some dummy values into the notes.ini file on the server, for the keys that seemed to be returning ‘Null’ :
KitType=2
ServerSetup=55
however I immediately recieve the following error when I run ./server -listen after making the change :
Server exiting:
Could not open the ID file
So I think i’m just confusing the matter more. 
If anybody could offer a suggestion as to why the Remote Setup client is raising this exception I would greatly appreciate it - sending me insane!! 
thanks.