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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.
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.
Connecting to a Notes mail account
How can I use a phone line to access Notes® mail and applications?
If your physical connection is a telephone line with a dialup (digital/analog) modem, you need a Network Dialup location type to use HCL Notes® mail on an HCL Domino® server, in addition to remote access service (RAS) software in your operating system (such as Microsoft™ Dial-Up Networking).

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.
  - Connecting to a Notes mail account
    - How can I use a LAN, cable, or DSL to access Notes® mail and applications?
      If your physical connection is a cable modem with a cable (television) service connection, or a digital subscriber line (DSL), HCL Notes® works as if you're on a LAN. Therefore, you can use the same or a very similar configuration for these three connection methods.
    - How can I use a phone line to access Notes® mail and applications?
      If your physical connection is a telephone line with a dialup (digital/analog) modem, you need a Network Dialup location type to use HCL Notes® mail on an HCL Domino® server, in addition to remote access service (RAS) software in your operating system (such as Microsoft™ Dial-Up Networking).
  - Connecting to an Internet mail account
    How you set up your connection to Internet mail depends on the type of physical connection you use.
  - How can I switch to a different location?
    Because you can connect to HCL Notes® several different ways, HCL Notes needs a way to manage information for each type of connection you use. Because you sometimes change the way you connect when you start Notes in a different physical location, you are given a list of built-in locations you can switch between, and information about each one is stored in Location documents.
  - How can I change phone and time information for the current location?
    You can update settings such as the area code and time zone for the current location. The area code setting is useful if you use a single HCL Notes® location (such as Travel) in different physical locations, but you don't want to create extra Location documents manually because everything except the phone is the same.
  - Are there any good practices to follow when traveling with Notes®?
    When you travel within or outside the United States, you can make using HCL Notes® easier by remembering a few tips.
- 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.

How can I use a phone line to access Notes® mail and applications?

If your physical connection is a telephone line with a dialup (digital/analog) modem, you need a Network Dialup location type to use HCL Notes® mail on an HCL Domino® server, in addition to remote access service (RAS) software in your operating system (such as Microsoft™ Dial-Up Networking).

About this task

Note: Do not use the Notes® Direct Dialup connection type. If you are using a Home (Notes® Direct Dialup) location for RAS, edit it and change its connection type to Network Dialup. The X.PC modem protocol is not supported.

Before you proceed, ask your Domino® administrator whether your organization has a network server. With RAS, you may have access to a network server either through an ISP, through your organization's intranet, or both. A Network Dialup location type lets you call a single network server to give you access to all Notes® applications in your organization.

Note: Notes® can use RAS software to call a network server and connect from there to Domino® servers in your organization, to Web servers on the Internet, or to both. You may have access to a network server either through an ISP, through your organization's intranet, or both.

Notes® saves information about network servers in Home Location documents of the Network Dialup type and in Network Dialup Server Connection documents.

Procedure

Gather the following:
- The name of your home Domino® server (for example, mailbag.east.com/acme).
- The full telephone number (including area code) and prefix, if any, of the network server.
Optional: Switch to the location where you want to use this connection method.

For example, if your organization has a network server, switch to Home (Network Dialup).
Click Tools > Client Reconfiguration Wizard.
Select Domino server and in the drop-down list, select Network Dialup.
Click Next and answer the questions.

Results

Note: After you complete this type of configuration, the current Location document in your Preferences contains the name of your home server and Notes® mail file name and path (which Notes® learns from an available Domino® Directory), as well as other settings. Notes® also creates a Network Dialup Connection document (in your Contacts) to your Domino® server.