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Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
Configuring directory services
This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
The Domino® Directory
The Domino® Directory, which some previous releases referred to as the Public Address Book or Name and Address Book, is a database that Domino creates automatically on every server. The Domino Directory is a directory of information about users, servers, and groups, as well as custom entries you may add. Registering users and servers in a domain automatically creates corresponding Person documents and Server documents in the Domino Directory for the domain. These documents contain detailed information about each user and server.
Controlling access to the Domino® Directory
You control access to the HCL Domino® Directory by setting it overall in the ACL, assigning administrators to roles that correspond to their administrative tasks, and, if you want, controlling access to individual documents or using the extended ACL to set access at the form and field level.

Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
- Configuring a network
  This section presents the planning concepts and setup procedures necessary for a successful HCL Domino® deployment over a network. It provides information on network protocols from a Domino perspective but does not attempt to provide general network information.
- Configuring users and servers
  Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
- Editing the NOTES.INI file
  You should rarely, if ever, need to modify a server's or client's NOTES.INI file. The NOTES.INI file contains many settings that Domino® and Notes® rely on to work properly. An accidental or incorrect change may cause Domino or Notes to run unpredictably. Therefore, you should edit the NOTES.INI file only if special circumstances occur or if Support recommends that you do so.
- Configuring directory services
  This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
  - The Domino® Directory
    The Domino® Directory, which some previous releases referred to as the Public Address Book or Name and Address Book, is a database that Domino creates automatically on every server. The Domino Directory is a directory of information about users, servers, and groups, as well as custom entries you may add. Registering users and servers in a domain automatically creates corresponding Person documents and Server documents in the Domino Directory for the domain. These documents contain detailed information about each user and server.
    - Setting up the Domino® Directory for a domain
      After you install and set up servers in a Domino® domain, you set up the Domino Directory for the domain by performing tasks including creating a central directory architecture, controlling access to the directory, categorizing users by corporate hierarchy, setting up Notes® clients to use a directory server, customizing the Directory Profile, and scheduling replication.
    - Controlling access to the Domino® Directory
      You control access to the HCL Domino® Directory by setting it overall in the ACL, assigning administrators to roles that correspond to their administrative tasks, and, if you want, controlling access to individual documents or using the extended ACL to set access at the form and field level.
      - Setting overall access levels in the Domino® Directory ACL
        The Domino® Directory, like all Notes® databases, has an access control list (ACL) that controls the overall access that users and servers have.
      - Using administration roles in the Domino® Directory ACL
        The Domino® Directory ACL includes Creator and Modifier roles that you assign to administrators so they have the authority to create and edit specific types of documents. By assigning one or more roles along with general access levels, you can limit an administrator's access to some types of documents but allow greater access to other types of documents.
      - Using the Administrators field to control access to individual documents in the Domino® Directory
        Most types of documents in the Domino® Directory contain an Administration tab with an Administrators field on it. To allow an administrator who has Author access to the directory to modify a single document, enter the administrator's name in the Administrators field.
    - Corporate hierarchies
      You can categorize a Person document in the HCL Domino® Directory by a corporate hierarchy. When an HCL Notes® user selects a name from a Domino Directory, the user can view the list of names by the assigned Corporate Hierarchy.
    - Setting up Notes® clients to use a directory server
      You can set up Notes® clients to use a different server from their mail servers for mail addressing. Type-ahead addressing searches a directory server only when Notes users do not use condensed (mobile) directory catalogs. Directory servers are not used for LDAP directory searches initiated by Notes users.
    - Customizing the Directory Profile
      Use the Directory Profile to specify miscellaneous settings for the HCL Domino® Directory.
    - Scheduling replication of the Domino® Directory
      Create Connection documents to schedule replication of the Domino® Directory on all servers in the Domino domain. Since the Domino Directory is central to a Domino system, it's important to replicate it frequently. Although the replication schedule you select ultimately depends on the configuration of the servers in the domain, in general, replicate the Domino Directory at least every 30 minutes or, if the directory is large and changes frequently, every 10 to 15 minutes.
    - The Domino® Directory template
      The default Domino® Directory template (PUBNAMES.NTF) controls the appearance and functionality of the Domino Directory database (NAMES.NSF). Domino uses the forms and settings in the default Domino Directory template to control features -- for example, mail, server tasks, and access control -- and to store critical information that manages server connections, mail routing, and system configuration.
  - The LDAP service
    Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard Internet protocol for searching and managing entries in a directory, where an entry has one or more attributes associated with a distinguished name. A distinguished name -- for example, cn=Phyllis Spera,ou=Sales,ou=East,o=Renovations -- is a name that identifies an entry within a directory tree.
  - LDAP schema
    A directory entry contains information about a particular entity, or object -- for example, a person or a group -- and is associated with a distinguished name. An LDAP schema is a set of rules that define what can be stored as entries in an LDAP directory. Each LDAP directory has a default schema, which organizations can customize, or "extend," by adding elements to it. The elements of a schema are attributes, syntaxes, and object classes. LDAP directory servers provide the ability to enforce the schema to ensure that directory changes made using LDAP operations conform to it.
  - ldapsearch utility
    Domino® and Notes® provide a command-line search utility, LDAPSEARCH.EXE, that you use to search entries in any LDAP directory. The ldapsearch utility connects to a directory server and returns results that match search criteria you specify. It is available on Domino server and Notes client platforms.
  - Directory assistance
    Directory assistance allows a server to look up information in a directory other than a local primary Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF).
  - Directory Sync
    Directory Sync allows you to sync people and group data from an external LDAP directory into the Domino® directory. Currently data from Active Directory can be synced.
  - Directory catalogs
    A directory catalog is an optional directory database that typically contains information aggregated from multiple Domino® directories. Clients and servers can use a directory catalog to look up mail addresses and other information about the people, groups, mail-in databases, and resources throughout an organization, regardless of the number of Domino domains and Domino Directories the organization uses.
  - Extended ACL
    An extended access control list (ACL) is an optional directory access-control feature available for a directory created from the PUBNAMES.NTF template -- a Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog. An extended ACL is tied to the database ACL, and you access it through the Access Control List dialog box using a Notes® or Domino Administrator client.
  - Setting up Domino® Active Directory synchronization (Deprecated)
    When the Domino® server is installed on a Microsoft™ Windows™ 2003 server, as an administrator, you typically need to maintain two separate directories for the same set of people and groups. Maintaining user and group information involves adding entries to both directories, deleting entries, ensuring that passwords are the same when users use Notes® Single Logon, coordinating group membership in both directories, and ensuring that user or group settings, such as email addresses and telephone numbers, are identical.
- Configuring messaging
  This section provides an overview of messaging and describes how to set up mail routing, how to set up and customize mail servers, and how to track mail.
- Configuring iNotes®
  HCL iNotes® provides HCL Notes® users with browser-based access to Notes mail and to Notes calendar and scheduling features. Administrators specify mail policy and security policy settings as well as notes.ini file settings to complete the full implementation of HCL iNotes.
- Configuring Web servers
  This section describes how to set up the HCL Domino® Web server, and the Domino Web Navigator.
- Setting up a cluster
  Setting up a cluster includes the tasks of creating and verifying that it is working correctly, and then setting up user access, mail, replications, size quotas, directory assistance, roaming, web navigation, and use of a private LAN in the cluster.

Controlling access to the Domino® Directory

You control access to the HCL Domino® Directory by setting it overall in the ACL, assigning administrators to roles that correspond to their administrative tasks, and, if you want, controlling access to individual documents or using the extended ACL to set access at the form and field level.