It depends on the Lotus Notes mode he is working in.  Lotus is not a pop3
type mail program so the emails are normally not stored on individual work
stations. Emails are downloaded to individual work stations only when we do
a local replication of the emails there at a specific time. The program
which accesses the server and the emails *is* on the individual
workstations but all data is stored remotely.  Our company uses Lotus Notes
R5 and we can access our email through the Lotus Notes program on our
workstation or though a browser using a program on our company LAN.  There
are a couple of other ways to get to our email also.  The only time that we
can work with our email when not attached to the company LAN is  by doing a
"Replication" function which will download the email data to the local
machine, but the out-going mail cannot be sent until connected back to the
company LAN. Mail cannot be sent by simply connecting to the internet.  We
have used and are trying some VPN software (Shiva for one) to allow us to
use home cable modems to connect to our company LAN and thereby connect to
the Notes Server.  Normally Lotus has to be dialed into the company LAN on
which the Notes Server is connected. Probably his notebook worked because
he was dialing into his company LAN and was therefore connected to his
Notes Server.

Hope this helped some.

Doug


At 7/30/00 10:41 PM -0400, Dave Gibson wrote:

>Have a client who uses Lotus Notes for his business communications.
>Now that he has an in home network, with his business notebook
>communicating with his personal desktop machine, he would like to
>access the  Notes program via the desktop, with the standard size
>keyboard, monitor, etc. Both machines are running Windows 98.
>
>I created a shortcut on his desktop machine, using the network syntax,
>etc. to his notebook, and pointed the working directory to the
>notebook as well. Notes starts for a second, showing the "splash"
>screen, but then aborts without any message -- error or otherwise. How
>can I accomplish this for him?

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