LOCATIONS AND ACCOUNTS

Roaming user
As a roaming user, you can log into and use Notes® from any computer in your organization on which IBM® Lotus Notes® 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, and feeds subscriptions.

Your IBM Lotus® Domino® administrator assigns your roaming user capabilities. The data that your administrator configures to be roaming-enabled replicates between your roaming server and the Notes computer that you log into.

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


Certain Notes applications are replicated between your roaming server and the computer that you are working on, including the following:

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


Your <user>.dic and <user>.id files can also be roamed, as well as can certain settings in your notes.ini file.

As a roaming user, when you start Notes, the latest version of your roaming-enabled files are replicated to the computer that you are working on. As you work in Notes, any changes you make in these files are replicated back to your roaming server. This allows you to have a consistent experience on any Notes client computer that you log in to. Replication occurs on a scheduled basis or you can initiate replication 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 8.5 Administrator help at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp.

For more information about roaming data replication, 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, or have not worked on this computer before, a message may appear asking to start replication of information to this computer. Click Yes.

4. When you subsequently log in and start Notes on another computer, you may be prompted to upgrade your roaming data. Click Yes. 5. Restart Notes. A local replica of your roaming-enabled data is received from your roaming server and is now available on this computer.

6. When you use another computer, repeat this process beginning with step 4.

Managing your roaming-enabled data

As a roaming user, Notes enables your replication schedule and sets it to replicate your roaming-enabled data when you start or exit Notes depending on how your administrator has configured your roaming policy. 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."