Notes Data Directory on Shared File server

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Hello,

I have recently been thrown into a Lotus support scenario and am learning on the fly.

Question about the following scenario/process;

Need a multi user Lotus Notes 8.0.2 deployment where users will be able to seamlessly access Domino using Lotus Notes from any desktop or laptop, sometime from more that one machine.

I have tested the following:

-Install Notes Client in Multi User.

-Copy c:\notes\data to home directory on server

-Change notes.ini to point directory path to File server: (ie…:\homedir%username%\data>)

Everything appears to work until the user logs into another machine. The 2nd machine also went thru the above steps.

any suggestions, comments, instructions welcome,

thanks,

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Subject: Notes Data on Fileshare…

Hi,

there are two things you can check. First of all you can check if the following registry key points to your network share:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lotus\Notes\8.0\NotesIniPath\

→ N:\ here you insert your Notes Data Path

This works if you map the users data directory to a network drive name (e.g. N:\ :\homedir%username%\data>

PS: i had problems when i used the dfs path instead of a drive letter

You can also put the path to the notes.ini into the shortcut that starts lotus notes:

“C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe” “=\homedir%username%\data\notes.ini”

Hope i could help you, sorry for my bad english

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Subject: Notes Data on Fileshare…

Thank you for the response,

I will check the registry settings per your advice.

Also, I have searched many blogs as well as the IBM sites for documentation and there does not appear to be much prescriptive guidance on automating the installation for his type of configuration (where note user data is centrally stored and users have the ability to seamlessly access mail, directory, workspace…etc from multiple machines).

Thanks,