NotesIniPath

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Hello,

In a Citrix XenApp 7.6 environnment, i try to make the Notes Client point to the users’s notes.ini file located on his w:%username% directory. (w: is a network share of course).

I’m in the same situation as a previous post (unanswered): http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ndseforum.nsf/xpTopicThread.xsp?documentId=0685DCAF81CFE15B85257D2C00457712) http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ndseforum.nsf/xpTopicThread.xsp?documentId=0685DCAF81CFE15B85257D2C00457712.

This IBM document http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21450751 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21450751 indicates that a reg key “NotesIniPath” with the value of “w:%username%\notes.ini” in my case should be created under HKCU\Software\IBM\Notes\Installer.

But when the user logs in and starts the Notes Client for the first time, under HKCU\S-xxxxxx\Software\Lotus\Notes\Notes a reg value “NotesiniPath” with “w:%username%\IBM\Notes\Data\notes.ini” is created.

I’m unable to get rid of this “IBM\Notes\Data” information that unables to use the previous notes.ini file situated in “w:%username%”.

Well, sure, by modifying manually the value of the key it’s ok, but it can’t be done for all the users.

If any of you have found a solution, it’s welcome !

TIA, Yan

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Subject: NotesIniPath

Hi,

I did some tries and found that, even if i’m unable to tell Notes, when it installs, the notes.ini file location it should use, i still could achieve what i wanted.

Before installing on the Citrix box, i mapped the network share whith all the notes stuff to the letter L:, and then launched the install command: setup.exe /s /v"SETMULTIUSER=1 MULTIUSERBASEDIR=L:!USERNAME! MULTIUSERCOMMONDIR=L: CITRIX=1"

Then, when the user logs on, i run a script containing:

net use L: \file_server_name\share_name
reg add HKCU\Software\Lotus\Notes /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /v NotesIniPath /d “L:%username%\notes.ini”

If the key doesn’t exist, the first notes launch process creates the reg key with a REG_SZ type key; but, by chance, if the key exists, it doesn’t care about the type, so, a REG_EXPAND_SZ type key can then contain the %username% variable.

The notes client still creates the IBM\Notes\Data structure in my L: folder but it’s empty and he uses the existing notes.ini file located in L:, allowing the files update to the new client version.

Perhaps this helps someone else ,

Yan