Getting started as a Notes roaming user
Your IBM® Domino® administrator assigns your roaming user capabilities. The data that your administrator configures to be roaming-enabled replicates or syncs between your roaming server and the Notes® computer that you log into. The roaming server keeps roaming-enabled files and application synchronized for any Notes client on which you log into and work as a roaming user.
About this task
- Work on various Notes® client computers using your own contacts, bookmarks and workspace, personal journal or notebook, feeds, and Notes® preferences.
- See and act on your roaming-enabled files and applications on the Replication and Sync page ( ) grouped together in the Roaming Applications folder.
Once you accept the prompt to convert to roaming user, your personal Notes® applications and configuration are kept in sync, by replication or sync through the roaming user server, between all the computers on which you work as a Notes roaming user, including the following:
- Bookmarks (bookmark.nsf)
- Contacts (names.nsf)
- Feeds subscriptions (localfeedcontent)
- Notebook or journal (notebook.nsf or journal.nsf)
- Eclipse™ plug-in data and settings (roamingdata.nsf)
- Notes workspace (initially desktop8.ndk and then managed by bookmark.nsf)
Your user.dic and user.id files can also be roamed, as well as can certain Notes and Eclipse preferences and settings.
As a roaming user, when you start Notes®, the latest version of your roaming-enabled files are replicated or synced to the computer that you are working on. As you work in Notes®, any changes you make in these files are replicated or synced back to your roaming server. This allows you to have a consistent experience on any Notes® client computer that you log in to. Replication and sync occur on a scheduled basis or you can initiate them yourself.