Notes .Ini Path eXSearch Client Installation

Hi Christian,

I see that there is a problem. I havn't tried editing the registry. When installing the plugin, I looks the notes.ini up in the directories defined as path. If the notes.ini is not there, it won't install properly. That's a least what I told the customer and this could somehow be addressed centrally.

I didn't get it to work just changing the registry. I might not have tried long enough though.

Hope this helps,
Jochen.

Yes, I know for the Installation of the Plugin we have the Notes.Ini in the Standard Data Path. After this the Ini will be removed and the Parameter written in the Notes.Ini on the Network Drive. This works well, but to change the path in the registry to a path with a Variable instead of a absolut path doesn`t work.

So, you move the notes.ini files for the ExSearch-Installation (to the default path) and then again after the installation??? Is that what you do?

Why not just add the the new (non-standard) notes.ini-path to the path variable?! So, when you install the search client, it goes through all the paths available and finds the notes.ini file and enters that path correctly into the registry. - Not sure, if you can just add the path variable of the non-standard notes.ini path after the installation and still open the search client successfully.

Hope, this helps somehow. Regards,
Jochen.

Hi, the problem ist that the installation will be done through an administrative account which has no mapping to the Users Network home drive. This is no problem at all, I expect we have to check and change the registry setting at Logon for the Notes.Ini Location under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OTG\EmailXtender Search

Thanks.

Christian

Hi Christian,

How about having a dummy notes.ini at the default location for notes(C:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\. Once installation will complete, add the lines added by the installer to the users ini files?

Dummy ini will not pinch anyone.

Thanks,
Raj

Hi Raj,

yes that`s what we want to do during the installation. We are using a dummy notes.ini for the installation process and we weill add the necessary lines in the Users-Notes Ini at their home drive. the only thing I mentioned in the first Post is that the registry entry won`t accept a variable for something like %home%. We have to catch this at the Network Logon.

Hi CP,

I can understand where you are coming from, even the NOTESINIPATH variable might not be able to help in that case because that also takes fixed path as you mentioned.

It might fall under request for enhancement but I would suggested speaking to EMC Support to see if somehting could be done.

Thanks,
Rajan