Nlnotes.exe and Terminal Services on Win 2K

[justcurious]

I just installed Domino r5.08 on a Windows 2K server.
When I connect with Terminal Services, I am unable to run nlnotes.exe. The error message tells me I can't run the admin client while the Domino server is running.

Normally, I don't like running the client on a server, but when creating copys or replicas of huge databases I break this rule because it can take a tenth of the time it takes from my workstation.

If there is no way around this problem with Terminal Services, it is going to become a major headache when we are finally forced to upgrade all 30 of our servers to Win 2K.

Does anyone have any ideas about this?

 

[AmazingDominik]

Hi,

Strange, we never had this problem. We used R5 servers and now R6 servers and we always could run all clients using Terminal services.

However: If you use the create replica's function that is build into the Notes Administration client then you should have no difference in speed because the replica is created in the background from server to server. The data is never send to your machine.
So the difference in speed should not be a reason to run any Notes client on a server.

I think you are maybe using the wrong procedure to create the replica's which causes your client to create it instead of the servers. Make sure you use the "Files" tab of the Administration client.

Kind regards,

Dominik Malfait
dominik@amazingit.com

http://www.amazingit.com

Kind regards,

Dominik Malfait
dominik@amazingit.com

http://www.amazingit.com

 

[justcurious]

Thanks, Dominik. As I said earlier, we don't like to run clients on our servers, so none of the clients are installed. What I am trying to run is the nlnotes.exe that gets installed into the Domino folder.

I agree that the Administration background process is logically the best way to create our replicas, but we sometimes run into situations where it is quicker to do it through nlnotes.exe right on the server.

I guess we will just have to live with what we have.