LOCATIONS AND ACCOUNTS

Notes roaming user
As a roaming user, you can log into and use NotesR from any computer in your organization on which IBMR Lotus NotesR is installed, and use your personal data while doing so. Your personal data includes many of your Notes preferences and personal information such as your contacts, bookmarks, notebook, feeds subscriptions, and optionally your Notes workspace. Notes widgets also participate in roaming.

Your IBM LotusR DominoR administrator assigns your roaming user capabilities. The data that your administrator configures to be roaming-enabled replicates or syncs between your roaming server and the Notes computer that you log into. The roaming server keeps roaming-enabled files and application synchronized for any Notes client on which you work as a roaming user.

As a roaming user, you can do the following things:


Once you accept the prompt to convert to roaming user, your personal Notes applications and configuration are kept in sync, by replication or sync through the roaming user server, between all the computers on which you work as a Notes roaming user, including the following:

Note: For more information see "Information that replicates through the roaming server" in this help.


Your <user>.dic and <user>.id files can also be roamed, as well as can certain Notes and Eclipse preferences and settings.

As a roaming user, when you start Notes, the latest version of your roaming-enabled files are replicated or synced to the computer that you are working on. As you work in Notes, any changes you make in these files are replicated or synced back to your roaming server. This allows you to have a consistent experience on any Notes client computer that you log in to. Replication and sync occur on a scheduled basis or you can initiate them yourself.

Note: Depending on how your administrator has configured roaming for you, your roaming server can be either a file server or a Domino server. The Domino roaming server can be, but is not always, your home or mail server.

Your administrator configures you for roaming using administrator settings as described in the Domino Administrator help at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp.

For more information about roaming data replication and sync, see the following topics in this section of the help:


Obtaining your roaming-enabled data on a new computer

After your administrator configures you as a Notes roaming user, you can work on any computer on which Notes is installed and your roaming-enabled data will replicate automatically.

1. Log in to and start Notes on an available computer.

2. Connect to your mail server and your Notes mail.

3. If you have just been upgraded to roaming user, respond to prompts as described in "Converting your Notes personal applications and settings for roaming" and possibly "Configuring your Notes workspace for roaming,"

4. Restart Notes. A local replica of your roaming-enabled data is received from your roaming server and is now available on this computer.

Managing your roaming-enabled data

As a roaming user, Notes enables your replication schedule and sets it to replicate your roaming-enabled data on the replication schedule and when you start or exit Notes. The roaming-enabled data that is replicated is the content of the Roaming Application folder on your Replicator page.

For information about setting a replication, see the topic "Scheduling replication."