Hi Doug--
Thanks for the response. It appears he does download the email to his
laptop, since he almost exclusively works remotely. What I want to do
though, is launch the application on his laptop to read the mail via
his desktop connected to his at-home network. In other words run the
notes program on his laptop from a different machine. Does that make
it more clear?
Thanks
Dave
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Mon, 31 Jul 2000 at 17:49 Doug Simmons wrote
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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