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There is nothing wrong with the standard install process for Lotus Notes
Authored by: rbsandkam on Nov 20, '08 06:40:53PM

My experience with Lotus Notes 7.03 has been very normal, and I have found that nothing unusual or non-standard is necessary to install, configure, and run Lotus Notes on Mac OS X. Even for multiple users.

The installer is not broken. It runs fine every time, without problems. I have performed several hundred installs, under both 10.4 and 10.5.
The installer *will* prompt you for admin rights during the installation, but I rarely run an installer without being prompted for admin credentials. If I wasn't prompted for them, then I would be worried.

I have never had the installer not prompt me for administrator credentials. It does so, and upon entering them, the installer proceeds normally, just like every other installer I have ever run under Mac OS X.

I have never had any trouble running the Lotus Notes installer under a Standard (non-admin) account. It will prompt you for valid administrator credentials, but once you enter them the installer proceeds normally, just like every other installer I have ever run under Mac OS X.

It is true the installer only installs the "seed" files into the Library of the account from which you are running the installer.

*** But, you can run the installer again, under as many other accounts as you wish***

Running the installer again under other accounts will place the necessary "seed" files for that account, and does not effect the Lotus Notes configuration that has been performed in previous accounts.

So, the procedure I use for installing Lotus Notes is this:
log in to first user account.
run installer.
launch notes and perform notes account configuration
log in to second user account.
run installer.
launch notes and perform notes account configuration
repeat for as many users as necessary.

I recognize that the scripts presented in this hint can bring some automation to the process, and that is great to know about.
But, I felt that the tone of the post was quite misleading.

I have found the Notes installation process to be quite standard for a Mac OS X application, in every respect. It uses the standard Mac OS X installer routines (including prompting you for admin credentials). It places it's support files in ~/Library/Application Support (even Adobe doesn't do that). And it respects the multi-user environment of Mac OS X (a welcome change from the 6.5.x client, and something that can not be said of the Windows client - to the best of my knowledge).

It would be better if Notes automatically installed the "seed" files, when launched in an account and they are found to be missing. But the fact that it does not do this is hardly indicative of a poorly behaved, non-standard application. I see this kind of thing all the time, with all kinds of applications.

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Bob Sandkam
MacOS
Client Support/Server Administration/Application Specialist/Database Management/Cable Wrangler
VCUarts Computer Center
School of the Arts
Virginia Commonwealth University



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