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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 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.
Passthru servers
A passthru server is an HCL Domino® server that connects to other Domino servers when a direct connection cannot be made.

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.
  - Creating and editing accounts from the Notes® preference
    Accounts provide the information needed by components to connect to servers. In Notes®, accounts enable you to connect to a 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.
    - What setup is required for using a modem with Notes?
      You can use either a cable or DSL modem with HCL Notes®.
    - How can I call and disconnect from a Domino® server?
      One of the ways you can connect to an HCL Domino® server is over a dialup (phone line) modem through a network dialup connection. Notes® can directly dial the server, or you can use a (human) operator to place the call.
    - Passthru servers
      A passthru server is an HCL Domino® server that connects to other Domino servers when a direct connection cannot be made.
      - How can I specify a default passthru server for the current location?
        When Notes® can't connect to a server directly, Notes tries to use the default passthru server to connect.
      - How can I create a passthru server Connection document automatically?
        Simply use the reconfiguration wizard to automatically create a passthru server Connection document.
      - How can I create or edit a passthru server Connection document manually?
        Follow these directions to manually edit a passthru server Connection document.
    - How do I add secondary servers?
  - How do I delete Location, Account, or Connection documents?
    Deleting a Location, Connection, or Account document can harm essential parts of your connections to HCL 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.

Passthru servers

A passthru server is an HCL Domino® server that connects to other Domino® servers when a direct connection cannot be made.

A passthru server can:

Connect to servers behind a firewall at your organization (if you use cable or DSL to access Notes® from outside your organization)
Connect to servers on your LAN that use a different network protocol (for example, NETBIOS instead of TCP/IP) from your computer, if the passthru server runs both protocols
Connect (hop) to other passthru servers as necessary until reaching a target server
Connect to multiple servers with a single phone call (if you use a phone line, a Network Dialup connection, and remote access software in your operating system to access Notes® from outside your organization)

Note: Do not use the Hunt Group connection type. The X.PC modem protocol is not supported.

For more information, ask your Domino® administrator whether your organization uses passthru servers, and which Connection documents you need to take advantage of them.

Tip: If your organization has at least one passthru server, specify it as your default server in your current Location document. Create other passthru or Connection documents on the advice of your administrator.

For information on replicating using a passthru server, see To replicate with a selected server and To create a call entry.