I’ve read about roaming users…
But i still have a question.
What is needed…?
A user became roaming, so on server level, everything is ok.
The roaming user want to logon at another PC…
Can he logon on multiple user installation only?
Does he need his ID file on floppy (or network)?
What is he asked for when logging on for the first time?
Subject: re: Roaming
You can logon with a multiple user or single user install. Keep in mind what each does - while roaming and multi user installs are two distinct processes they do complement each other. If you don’t use multiuser then when roaming tries to replicate the address book locally it won’t work as the replica id won’t match. If it’s the same person using multiple machines then that wouldn’t be a problem.
When you set up roaming you can choose to attach the ID file to the mail file - which seems like a good idea.
So after you enable roamin for a user and they connect to the server they’ll be asked to click Ok so replication can start.
When they close Notes, they’re asked if they want to replicate again with the server.
When they switch to a new machine the problem we had is that you need to go through the initial Notes setup (what’s your mail server, where’s your ID file etc. which is a bit of a pain if you have a lot of users using a lot of machines).
But once you’re over the setup hump - things seem to go okay - if a user clicks “no” the first time they’re on a machine saying they don’t want to raom on that machine you may need to edit the INI file to add that setting back if they were supposed to reply yes.
We stopped the replication of the mail file to local for these users too - we don’t need 30 copies of the mail file on 30 servers.
We did have one other issue where we can only put the database below “data”. This is on external disk and the Mail folders are on different external disks with a Domino folder link below data (data/mail1, data/mail2 etc.)but we can’t convince/fool it to use a link/shortcut other than on the “data” drive.
Subject: RE: re: Roaming
Many thanks Clark…
Subject: RE: re: Roaming
HiThe documentation says that whan roaming user logout it’s files, including the idfile, are repliacted back to the server.
My questions are:
I log in as roaming user, change my password and then logout. The password in the idfile on the server did not chnage. Why?
I defined roaming user, but when lgoing in from a client I was not asked to click Ok to start replication. When I close Notes, I was not asked if I want to replicate again with the server. Is it a matter of setting?