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Locations and accounts
This topic describes connections to servers, ways to connect to servers, and things you should know before setting up a server connection.
Working with Locations, Accounts, and Connections
You set preferences for your Location, Account, and Connection documents that provide the information needed by components to connect to servers. Preferences enable you to create, edit, or delete certain Location, Account, or Connection documents.
Creating or editing a Location document manually
Locations are a feature that connects you to applications on servers by providing a place to specify such information as the name of your mail server, whether you use a passthru server, or even which Notes® ID to use.
How do I set up a LAN Notes® mail server location manually?
IBM® Notes® configures your Online (LAN) Location document automatically and sets it as the default location when you start Notes while connected to a LAN, including when you have specified that you have Internet mail. This LAN Location document is probably all you need, but you can create other Location documents if you want to.

Locations and accounts
This topic describes connections to servers, ways to connect to servers, and things you should know before setting up a server connection.
- Getting started with Locations and Accounts
  When connecting to servers, Notes® uses Location documents and Account documents to configure those connections. A Location document contains information that Notes needs, in order to manage your connections whenever you change the way you're connecting to servers; for example, your Home location may use remote access software in your operating system to dial your Internet server, while your Online location assumes that you're connected to a LAN. An Account document contains information, such as user name and password, for an Internet connection such as Internet mail.
- Locations and Accounts quick reference
  This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes locations and accounts , which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.
- Working with Locations, Accounts, and Connections
  You set preferences for your Location, Account, and Connection documents that provide the information needed by components to connect to servers. Preferences enable you to create, edit, or delete certain Location, Account, or Connection documents.
  - Creating or editing a Location document manually
    Locations are a feature that connects you to applications on servers by providing a place to specify such information as the name of your mail server, whether you use a passthru server, or even which Notes® ID to use.
    - How do I set up a LAN Notes® mail server location manually?
      IBM® Notes® configures your Online (LAN) Location document automatically and sets it as the default location when you start Notes while connected to a LAN, including when you have specified that you have Internet mail. This LAN Location document is probably all you need, but you can create other Location documents if you want to.
    - How do I set up locations for Internet mail manually?
      If you create Internet mail account(s) manually instead of during configuration, you may want to set up one or more locations for Internet mail.
    - What are the mail settings for a location?
      You can specify mail settings, such as whether to use your mail on a server or use your local replica, from the Mail tab of a Location document.
    - How can I set up a Network Dialup location or connection manually?
      If you have remote access service (RAS) software in your operating system, such as Microsoft™ Dial-Up Networking, IBM® Notes® can use that software to call a network server and connect from there to IBM Domino® servers in your organization, to Web servers on the Internet, or to both.
    - How do I set up a Notes Direct Dialup (phone line) location or connection manually?
      The Notes® Direct Dialup location and connection are unnecessary because direct dialup modem support using the X.PC protocol is no longer available in IBM® Notes. If your only method of connecting to a server is a direct dialup modem, you can use remote access software (RAS) in your operating system to connect to a network server that is connected to Notes, if your organization supports such access. Ask your Notes administrator for assistance on creating a Network Dialup location and connection.
    - How can I specify phone dialing settings for a location?
      Because direct dialup modem ports (X.PC ports) are no longer supported, phone dialing settings are unnecessary for a Network Dialup location or its connection. To use Network Dialup, you must have remote access software configured in your operating system, and specify phone dialing settings that software instead of in IBM® Notes®.
  - Creating and editing accounts from the Notes® preference
    Accounts provide the information needed by components to connect to servers. In IBM® Notes®, accounts enable you to connect to an IBM Domino® server. Accounts are secured by a name, password, authentication server and authentication type. Preferences enable you to create, edit, or delete certain accounts.
  - Creating and editing a Connection document
    During configuration, Notes® creates a Connection document for your home server. Connection documents reside in your Contacts application and store information Notes needs to access a server, such as the server's full Domino® name or Internet address. One server may have multiple Connection documents if you access it in multiple ways, for example over the LAN at work and using a cable modem from home.
  - How do I delete Location, Account, or Connection documents?
    Deleting a Location, Connection, or Account document can harm essential parts of your connections to IBM® Notes® mail, Internet mail, or Internet newsgroups, or make it impossible for Notes to connect you to a server you need. If you want to experiment with extra locations, connections, or accounts, copy existing documents and paste and rename test copies, so you can later delete the test versions without disturbing the originals.
- Advanced Locations and Accounts topics
  Learn to do additional tasks with Location, Account, and Connection documents, such as customizing Location settings, enabling Java applets in Notes, and using iNotes to access your Notes mail from the internet.

How do I set up a LAN Notes® mail server location manually?

IBM® Notes® configures your Online (LAN) Location document automatically and sets it as the default location when you start Notes® while connected to a LAN, including when you have specified that you have Internet mail. This LAN Location document is probably all you need, but you can create other Location documents if you want to.

About this task

The easiest way to set up any type of connection is to click Tools > Client Reconfiguration Wizard, and answer the questions Notes® asks, letting Notes® create or edit your address book documents automatically. Before using the wizard, be sure you are using a LAN location, for example, Online.

To create a LAN Location document manually

Procedure

From the menu, click File > Locations > Manage Locations.
Click the Online location and then click Edit.
On the Basics tab, enter your Internet mail address. This is usually the Internet version of your organizational Notes® mail address, for example, JSmith@acme.com.
Click the Servers tab, and enter the name of your home/mail server, for example: MailEast/Acme. This is the hierarchical name of your Domino® home server.
Leave the other spaces on the Servers tab blank.
On the Ports tab, select TCPIP.
On the Mail tab, set Mail file location to On Server.
Enter the mail file path name on the server in the Mail file field. For example: mail\jqpublic.nsf
In the Internet domain for Notes addresses when connecting directly to the Internet field, enter the Internet domain name of the Domino® home server (if you use a Domino® server for mail). For example, if your Domino® server MailServer/Acme had the address mailserver.acme.com, the Internet domain would be acme.com.
Leave the remaining fields on the Mail tab as they are.
Click OK.
Make sure your location is set to Online.
Exit and restart Notes®.
Click the Open button and then click Mail, or click the Mail icon in the Bookmark bar, to open your Mail.

Tips

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To enable a port for your computer, click File > Preferences and then click NotesPorts (Notes Basic client users: File > Preferences > User Preferences and click Ports).
To select a port for the current location, click File > Location > Manage Locations, click the location, and then click Edit.