GETTING CONNECTED

Sharing a computer with other users
At installation on Windows, Lotus Notes offers two options: "Only for me (Single User Install)" and "Anyone who uses this computer (Multi-User Install)." If you want to share a computer with other users, ask your administrator which computers in your organization have multi-user Notes, or to set up multi-user Notes on a shared computer in your organization if it's not already available.

To log in to a shared Windows computer while Notes is running, choose File - Restart As New User. Notes exits, Windows shuts down and restarts, and after you log in to Windows, Notes automatically restarts with your personal information.

Multi-user Notes and roaming privileges

The multi-user and roaming features, new in this release of Notes, complement each other.

Notes can automatically delete the data directory you've been using when you, as a roaming user, exit Notes on a computer with multi-user Notes installed. This automatic deletion is called "cleaning up," and helps saves space on shared computers. Your administrator will set a cleanup option for you as part of your roaming privileges. The options are: clean up when you exit Notes, clean up after a number of days that you specify, prompt to clean up, or don't clean up at all.

To use the roaming user feature on a computer with multi-user Notes installed, log in to the operating system and start Notes as usual.

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