I have a single machine with multiple users to login there, I want to know that is it possible that a single client machine can login multiple users simultaneously???
Subject: it depends. How would you like the system to detect which user is at the keyboard?
Subject: …and what you want to do about security/accountability
You can give each users adifferent Location doc pointing to their own Id file and mailfile/server, however, they will all share the same Personal Address Book, bookmarks/Workspace and preferences. I have seen this used a lot on shop floors where there is a single, generic OS login (normally without Internet access), then each user can select their location doc, and enter their password, to access their mail. The problems are that to maintain some security for the previous users’ mailfile, you need them to close Notes and when it is restarted, the new user is prompted for the previous password, there is an option to switch Location doc. on the password dialogue box for them to choose their own Location,
Sounds harder than it is, but if it is just to check mail every now and then, it is fine, with a little user training,
Pete Spoors
Subject: Or you can
Create completely separate Lotus environments for each user on the machine.
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Copy the Data directory as many times as you have users. Rename them, so you’ll have Lotus\notes\date, lotus\notes\john, lotus\notes\mary
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Take the notes.ini file and copy it to each specific data directory. Edit the path inside the notes.ini to point to it’s own data directory. So the notes.ini file inside the john folder would be Path=C:\lotus\notes\john
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Go into the program directory and make a shortcut to the desktop of nlnotes.exe for as many users as you have.
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Edit the properties of the nlnotes.exe and change it to say:
C:\lotus\notes\nlnotes.exe =C:\lotus\notes\john\notes.ini
That’s it. Every user has their own icon to launch notes. Ever user has their own environment like they were on their own PC.