I have set myself up as a remote user, my id is stored in my personal address book which (with my other personal databases) reside on the server. I am of the understanding that I should be able to log into Notes from any workstation and retrieve my personal settings. HOW??? How do I tell Notes that I want to sign in as ‘me’ when I launch Notes from another workstation? According to what I have read, I do not need a multi-user client to do this, but I do not understand how it would be done otherwise. When I launch Notes from a single-user client, how do I tell it that I’m a roaming user and to pull my info from the server? Can anyone lay this out for me?
Subject: Remote Users - logging in to ‘any’ workstation
here’s what’s in the client help…
At installation on Windows, Lotus Notes offers two options: “Only for me (Single User Install)” and “Anyone who uses this computer (Multi-User Install).” If you want to share a computer with other users, ask your administrator which computers in your organization have multi-user Notes, or to set up multi-user Notes on a shared computer in your organization if it’s not already available.
To log in to a shared Windows computer while Notes is running, choose File - Restart As New User. Notes exits, Windows shuts down and restarts, and after you log in to Windows, Notes automatically restarts with your personal information.
Multi-user Notes and roaming privileges
The multi-user and roaming features, new in this release of Notes, complement each other.
Notes can automatically delete the data directory you’ve been using when you, as a roaming user, exit Notes on a computer with multi-user Notes installed. This automatic deletion is called “cleaning up,” and helps saves space on shared computers. Your administrator will set a cleanup option for you as part of your roaming privileges. The options are: clean up when you exit Notes, clean up after a number of days that you specify, prompt to clean up, or don’t clean up at all.
To use the roaming user feature on a computer with multi-user Notes installed, log in to the operating system and start Notes as usual.
So it looks like you need to have multi-user installed and they need to be able to login to the local pc as well.