I can find no information on running multiple 8.0.x clients on one machine. Has anyone done this sucessfully? I can’t imagine doing support/development work while having to constantly switch ids, especially with all the ‘do you really want to’ messages and remembering to re-activate my sametime session every time. I have tried VMWare but the overhead is unacceptable. Help!
I have come to rely on running multiple, parallel client instances on one Win XP computer in order to support several different domains. In 6.5.4 I would sometimes have 6-8 clients going to monitor production and email, develop applications in the dev domain and test with various test ids. At a minimun I need to be able to quickly switch between the production and development domains.
The way I do it is that with the exception of the first instance of Notes I start nlnotes.exe instead of notes.exe and as a parameter I point to different notes.inis which in turn points to different data directories.
Yes, adding nlnotes.exe" “=C:\Documents and Settings\wagnerm\Local Settings\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\DataD1\notes.ini” to the target specification in the desktop icon did the trick. I had always used the ‘Start In’ to point to my separate ini files and the eclipse framework in that space threw me. Using ‘nlnotes’ for my dev and testing clients and avoiding the eclipse in the startup did the trick. Thanks again.