Lotus Notes 6.5.1 Forum

I've successfully installed Notes 6.5.3. I installed from scratch from the self-extracting exe version, and I used the supported "Notes 6.5.1" option in cxsetup to do it. It installed DCOM95, IE6, etc, for me as well.

Notes launches fine, but when I do the very initial setup dialog, where you specify the name of your Domino server, it doesn't work. I have both the Lotus name of the server and the real hostname and IP address of the server, but the notes client keeps telling me that the server isn't responding (reboot to windows on same machine and use same values, works fine). This is in a corp environment, one difference I can think of is that my linux/crossover box isn't in the corp NT domain, whereas when I reboot to windows I am (is there a way to "join" the domain from my fake_windows onder cxoffice?). The IE6 that cxsetup installed for me reaches out and touches all the websites around here fine, so I know basic IP networking is working ok.

Any thoughts?

Off the top of my head I'd add a line in /etc/hosts for the server, so for
example: "10.21.19.101 notes_server.company.com". Then when filling out
the Domino server part of the set up just use the short form of the server.
For example: "notes_server" instead of "notes_server/domain/company"
this is something I have to do for all Domino servers.

Yeah that fixed it, thanks. Everything's working wonderfully now, from basic email to a bunch of custom notes databases/apps/whatever-you-call-them that are unique to our company.

The notes client tries to resolve the common name of the server via DNS. Not being in your corporate domain is probably why this was failing.

Placing the entry in /etc/hosts as David suggested is a work around that will take care of things until IP addresses get changed on you.

Setting a search domain to include the corporate domain may be a better solution.