Subject: Lotus client rollout
James,
Multi-user workstations are useful if multiple persons use the same physical computer, but use (important!) a different Windows login for each of them.
The baseline of multi-user workstations is, that the data directory is put to the user’s personal profile on the Windows machine.
Roaming users are users who jump from PC to PC regularily. In this case the “personalized” files are kept on the Domino Server, and will be replicated to the workstation as soon as the user logs on to Notes.
With roaming users you have a couple of “cleanup” options (what happens to the personal files when the user logs off?). To understand this just assume the following two scenarios:
(1) if you would be using a “public” computer and needed to make sure that no one can access your personal data after you have left the computer (or if you probably will never come back to this computer), you would want to clean up your personal files when logging off Notes.
(2) if you will return to this computer regularily, you will want to keep the files on the computer so that only the recent changes have to be relicated, and not the complete databases.
You can also combine those two scenarios. This is useful if users jump from PC to PC but regularily come back to a certain PC (i.e., the number of PCs they jump in between is limited).
However, there is a disadvantage: if you don’t clean up the computer upon logoff, and have a considerable number of users, then this will end up in consuming considerable diskspace on your workstation. This will probably affect your fileserver too if your Windows profiles should be stored on a Windows servers, and not locally…
So, quite some side effects (and a couple of more variations which are possible), but those are the absolute basics you need to know for planning your environment.
For more, check the admin documentation and probably the UPGRADING TO DOMINO 6 REDBOOK.