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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.
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 can I customize location settings?
You can click the Advanced tab in a Location document and customize the location you are editing, for example to use a different User ID from other locations, allow multiple users for Contacts, use different bookmarks or subscriptions, or manage Web retrievals and Java™ applet security differently.

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.
- 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.
  - What are the options for editing Connection documents manually?
    In a Connection document, you can click the Advanced tab and specify additional server connection options.
  - How can I customize location settings?
    You can click the Advanced tab in a Location document and customize the location you are editing, for example to use a different User ID from other locations, allow multiple users for Contacts, use different bookmarks or subscriptions, or manage Web retrievals and Java™ applet security differently.
  - How can I enable Java applets in Notes?
    HCL Notes® lets you run Java™ applets -- simple programs added to many Web pages to create interesting effects. To run a Java applet, the Web page's server must access your system, which can present a security problem. You can give access to Java applets on a server-by-server basis. This method of access control works well in a corporate intranet where you want to give open access to internal servers while limiting access to external servers.
  - Sharing a computer with other users
    Notes® multi-user installation and the Notes roaming feature complement each other. If you want to share a computer with other users in your organization, ask your administrator which computers have Notes multi-user installed on them.
  - How do I configure advanced TLS settings?
  - How do I configure advanced web retriever and log settings?
    You can set how many parts of a Web page HCL Notes® retrieves at the same time. For example, you can set Notes to retrieve text, images, and video all at once, instead of one at a time.
  - How can I configure advanced MIME settings?
  - How can I use iNotes® to access Notes® mail using a browser?
    If your administrator sets up your HCL Notes® mail to use HCL iNotes®, you can read and work with Notes messages using a Web browser in addition to, or instead of, the Notes client software.

How can I customize location settings?

You can click the Advanced tab in a Location document and customize the location you are editing, for example to use a different User ID from other locations, allow multiple users for Contacts, use different bookmarks or subscriptions, or manage Web retrievals and Java™ applet security differently.

Note: If multiple users share Contacts applications in your organization, we recommend that they stop doing so and install multi-user Notes® instead. For more information see Sharing a computer with other users.

If you're not already editing a Location document, click File > Locations > Manage Locations, click a Location document, and click Edit.

Tip: You can also access a your Location documents by clicking File > Preferences and then clicking Locations.

Click the Advanced tab, and then under the Basics tab:

Click Yes next to Use operating system's time zone settings.
In the Only for user field, enter all user names if more than one user will be using Contacts.
In the User ID to switch to field, enter the name of the User ID you want to use at this location. For example, if this location is for another office's LAN where you need a different User ID to access servers, specify that ID here.
In the Load images field, click Always or On request for displaying images in Internet Web pages.
If you see the Bookmarks filename field, it's because this Location document specifies a custom file name for the Bookmarks application (you may have entered this custom name in a previous release of Notes®).
In the Subscriptions filename field, enter the file name of an existing subscriptions application (default is headline.nsf). Notes® will use the file the next time you start Notes®. if you enter the name of a file that does not exist in your \data directory, Notes® will create a file of that name.
In the Network dialup idle timeout field, enter the number of minutes of inactivity before Notes® cancels the phone call.