From what we have tried here at our company, we have not found a way to
run Lotus from a server (as a served application). We have to load the
Lotus Notes program on each client machine and then we point to the Mail
Database file on a shared drive on the network. Lotus install adds a lot of
stuff to the registry and installs several dll's and other files on the
workstation in the Windows sub-directories. His desktop machine probably
doesn't have these extra files and registry settings.
If your client can receive mail on his laptop while remote, he would have
to be connected to the Notes database server. The Lotus downloading
process is really just creating a duplicate of the server database on the
laptop. You then have to re-sync the laptop and server databases the next
time that you connect to the notes server. He could probably install Notes
on his desktop, copy the <username>.id file from the laptop, and point to
the duplicate mail database on the laptop. The <username>.id file is an
encrypted file which stores the password and directs Lotus to connect to
the right server and database.
Good luck!
Doug
At 8/2/00 12:57 AM -0400, Dave Gibson wrote:
>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?
>--------------------------------------------
>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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