Thursday, August 28, 2008

Lotus 8.0.2 Installation with sucess.

The awaited new Lotus Client has arrived. Promisses about faster startup time and lower memory footprint has to be checked out. Checking the bloogs in the comunity I got over this article about a new setup parameter for mulituser install. Thanks to Chris Miller for posting links to several technotes for Domino/Lotus Notes 8.0.2.

The parameter is: setup /v"SETMULTIUSER=1/qb"

The parameter for multiuser setup worked fine. But I managed to mess it up when I under the Client setup created a new location document, figuring that I didn't want to use the default 'Online'.

The Client soon warned me about this beeing a muliuser install and that , if I wanted to change notes user, I should log of Windows and log on with a different windows user.

Do not ignore this!! I did and it gave me some trouble. Sure the client works fine the first time after log on. This beeing a muliuser setup I switched windows user and started Lotus Notes.

Again a setup procedure to follow. Stating username, pointing to server and ID file and off I go.
Works perfectly. This is really promissing. There nothing else to do and to log off windows again with my first user.

I start the client and it shows me the blue expeditor frame. And nothing more. Frozen!

Well ofcourse, it must be the ~notes.lck file that causing this. It wasn't. I could not find anywhere.

After some trial and error, I figured it must be someting with my location document.
Removing the location document I created and setting the default 'Online' location document fixed the problem. Now I'm happy.

Multiuser setup works like charm, just mind Your location document setup.

BTW: This setup was done on a windows xp system with no previous Lotus Notes installation wtih the All Clients setup files. Multiuser setup with All Clients... sweet!!

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