- 
Notes network installation and templates
Category None
Bookmark :
I have several customers that run Notes with the users data directories on a file server. We always strip the number of templates down to the minimum set required, but that will still mean about 15 MB per user, which in a 2.000 user environment is a lot of data.
So, what we do is put the templates on the local disk and just create database link files in the users data directory. The link files are just small text files with the same filename as the template and with just one line in it, containing the path and filename of the actual template.
For instance for pernames.ntf we create a text file calles pernames.ntf with as content c:\lotus\notes\data\pernames.ntf.
We also tried putting the templates on the Domino server and the point the text file to!!pernames.ntf. This worked just fine during testing but not in a production environment. As soon as two users need to use the same template at the same time, which is especially happening after an upgrade, users will get an error.
Bookmark :
I have several customers that run Notes with the users data directories on a file server. We always strip the number of templates down to the minimum set required, but that will still mean about 15 MB per user, which in a 2.000 user environment is a lot of data.
So, what we do is put the templates on the local disk and just create database link files in the users data directory. The link files are just small text files with the same filename as the template and with just one line in it, containing the path and filename of the actual template.
For instance for pernames.ntf we create a text file calles pernames.ntf with as content c:\lotus\notes\data\pernames.ntf.
We also tried putting the templates on the Domino server and the point the text file to
Comments
I think there are better ways to obtain the same result..
U can use a shareded data directory parameter beside the directory parameter in notes.ini
SharedDataDirectory=c:\pro..\ibm\lotus\notes\data
directory=p:\notes
The method you are using is a rather old trick. I works...but you must have all the files pre populated in a notes data directory. Whith these parameters you can have an empty data directory on the users share with just an ini file.
Posted by sander At 13:11:07 On 25-02-2009 | - Website - |