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Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
Configuring users and servers
Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
Configuring directory services
This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
Extended ACL
An extended access control list (ACL) is an optional directory access-control feature available for a directory created from the PUBNAMES.NTF template -- a Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog. An extended ACL is tied to the database ACL, and you access it through the Access Control List dialog box using a Notes® or Domino Administrator client.

Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
- Configuring a network
  This section presents the planning concepts and setup procedures necessary for a successful HCL Domino® deployment over a network. It provides information on network protocols from a Domino perspective but does not attempt to provide general network information.
- Configuring users and servers
  Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
  - Understanding the Server document
    The Server document is set up when you register a server. It contains many of the settings that define how your server operates.
  - Policies
    Use Domino® policy settings to control how users work with Notes®. A policy is a document that identifies a collection of individual policy settings. Policy settings documents define a set of defaults that apply to the users and groups to which the policy is assigned. You can change policy settings and they will be automatically applied to the assigned users and groups.
  - Defining default settings for Notes® user registration
    Before you register new Notes® users, you can specify default settings that apply to all users. Default settings simplify user registration and ensure user settings consistency. You can define many default settings, such as what mail server users have or what certifier ID to use for user registration. You can also specify a default workstation execution control list (ECL) to protect data from unauthorized workstation access.
  - Using groups
    Groups are lists of users, groups, and servers that have common traits. They are useful for mailing lists and access control lists. Using groups can simplify administration tasks.
  - Replicas
    You can make a database available to users in different locations, on different networks, or in different time zones, by creating replicas of the database.
  - Calendars and scheduling
    The calendar and scheduling features allow users to check the free time of other users, schedule meetings with them, and reserve resources, such as conference rooms and equipment.
  - Editing the notes.ini file
    The Domino and Notes notes.ini files contain the settings required for the server and client to operate correctly. If you modify or add settings in a notes.ini file, do so cautiously and never edit the file directly with a text editor.
  - Configuring directory services
    This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
    - The Domino® Directory
      The Domino® Directory, which some previous releases referred to as the Public Address Book or Name and Address Book, is a database that Domino creates automatically on every server. The Domino Directory is a directory of information about users, servers, and groups, as well as custom entries you may add. Registering users and servers in a domain automatically creates corresponding Person documents and Server documents in the Domino Directory for the domain. These documents contain detailed information about each user and server.
    - The LDAP service
      Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard Internet protocol for searching and managing entries in a directory, where an entry has one or more attributes associated with a distinguished name. A distinguished name -- for example, cn=Phyllis Spera,ou=Sales,ou=East,o=Renovations -- is a name that identifies an entry within a directory tree.
    - LDAP schema
      A directory entry contains information about a particular entity, or object -- for example, a person or a group -- and is associated with a distinguished name. An LDAP schema is a set of rules that define what can be stored as entries in an LDAP directory. Each LDAP directory has a default schema, which organizations can customize, or "extend," by adding elements to it. The elements of a schema are attributes, syntaxes, and object classes. LDAP directory servers provide the ability to enforce the schema to ensure that directory changes made using LDAP operations conform to it.
    - ldapsearch utility
      Domino® and Notes® provide a command-line search utility, LDAPSEARCH.EXE, that you use to search entries in any LDAP directory. The ldapsearch utility connects to a directory server and returns results that match search criteria you specify. It is available on Domino server and Notes client platforms.
    - Directory assistance
      Directory assistance allows a server to look up information in a directory other than a local primary Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF).
    - Directory Sync
      Directory Sync allows you to sync people and group data from an external LDAP directory into the Domino® directory. Currently data from Active Directory can be synced.
    - Directory catalogs
      A directory catalog is an optional directory database that typically contains information aggregated from multiple Domino® directories. Clients and servers can use a directory catalog to look up mail addresses and other information about the people, groups, mail-in databases, and resources throughout an organization, regardless of the number of Domino domains and Domino Directories the organization uses.
    - Extended ACL
      An extended access control list (ACL) is an optional directory access-control feature available for a directory created from the PUBNAMES.NTF template -- a Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog. An extended ACL is tied to the database ACL, and you access it through the Access Control List dialog box using a Notes® or Domino Administrator client.
      - How other database security features restrict extended ACL access settings
        The access set for a user in an extended ACL can never exceed the access the database ACL, including the database ACL privileges and roles, allows the user. For example, if the database ACL allows a user only Reader access, you cannot use the extended ACL to allow Write access. Or if a user is omitted from the database ACL User Creator role, you can't use the extended ACL to allow the user Create access to Person documents.
      - Elements of an extended ACL
        To set up an extended ACL, you use the Extended Access at target dialog box, which you open from the database Access Control List dialog box.
      - Extended ACL access settings
        There are several access settings you use to control a subject's access to an extended ACL target. For each access setting you choose Allow or Deny. You can leave an access setting unchecked, but if you do, other subjects in the extended ACL or database ACL determine whether the subject is allowed or denied the access. It's better to select Allow or Deny to help ensure you get the access control results you expect.
      - Extended ACL subject
        An extended ACL subject is a name for which you are setting access to a selected extended ACL target. To add a subject to an extended ACL, you select the target and then click Add in the "Extended Access at target" dialog box.
      - Extended ACL target
        You select a target to specify either a category of documents or a specific document to which you are controlling a subject's access. Selecting a category of documents as a target is recommended because you can set access to multiple documents at once and because the access applies to documents added to the category in the future.
      - Extended ACL examples
        Review the topics in the related information for examples of how to use extended ACLs.
      - Extended ACL guidelines
        Plan an extended ACL on paper before you implement it. After you have planned the extended ACL on paper, test it in a nonproduction environment before deploying it.
      - Setting up and managing an extended ACL
        Use these tasks to set up and manage an extended ACL.
  - Configuring messaging
    This section provides an overview of messaging and describes how to set up mail routing, how to set up and customize mail servers, and how to track mail.
  - Configuring iNotes®
    HCL iNotes® provides HCL Notes® users with browser-based access to Notes mail and to Notes calendar and scheduling features. Administrators specify mail policy and security policy settings as well as notes.ini file settings to complete the full implementation of HCL iNotes.
  - Configuring Web servers
    This section describes how to set up the HCL Domino® Web server, and the Domino Web Navigator.
  - Setting up a cluster
    Setting up a cluster includes the tasks of creating and verifying that it is working correctly, and then setting up user access, mail, replications, size quotas, directory assistance, roaming, web navigation, and use of a private LAN in the cluster.
  - Configuring Widgets and Live Text
    Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in supported documents, including HCL Notes® mail, using XML extensions (widgets) created specifically for their use.
  - Domain Search
    Notes® client and Web users can use Domain Search to search an entire Domino® domain for database documents, files, and attachments that match a search query.

Extended ACL

An extended access control list (ACL) is an optional directory access-control feature available for a directory created from the PUBNAMES.NTF template -- a Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog. An extended ACL is tied to the database ACL, and you access it through the Access Control List dialog box using a Notes® or Domino® Administrator client.

You use an extended ACL to apply restrictions to the overall access the database ACL allows a user -- you cannot use it to increase the access the database ACL allows. Use an extended ACL to set access to:

All documents with hierarchical names at a particular location in the directory name hierarchy, -- for example, all documents whose names end in OU=West/O=Renovations.
All documents of a specific type, -- for example all Person documents
A specific field within a specific type of document
A specific document

An extended ACL allows you to:

Delegate your Domino® administration, for example, allow a group of administrators to manage only documents named under a particular organizational unit.
Set access to precise portions of the directory contents.
Set access to documents and fields easily and globally at one source, rather than requiring you to control access through features such as multiple Readers and Authors fields.
Control the access of users who access the directory through any supported protocol: Notes® (NRPC), Web (HTTP), LDAP, POP3, and IMAP.
Limit access to Internet passwords stored in the Domino® Directory to protect against attacks by malicious sources trying to guess passwords.

For information on using xACLs to limit access to Internet passwords, see information on securing Internet passwords in the related topics.

Note: Server processes such as the Router task do not enforce extended ACL restrictions. However, in the case of the Router task specifically, you can prevent some users from sending mail to a group by editing the Readers field for the group and including only the names of users you want to allow to send mail to the group. When users omitted from the Readers field attempt to send mail to the group, the Router will not deliver the mail.