What about the client?
On the Notes client machine, your best bet is to configure the machines to have a cascaded address book at the time that the Notes client is installed. Once those machines are out in the field it's a little harder to configure them. The change that needs to be made is identical to the one shown above for servers, modify the line with the NAMES= statement to include not only the NAMES.NSF file but the directory and filename of your application.

If this database is a new one, though, and your Notes users have been dispersed to the four corners of the globe, then it's a bit harder. Your best option in that scenario is to create a button (using LotusScript) and mail it to your users to perform the modification to their NOTES.INI file.

What would that button look like? Funny that you should ask; the logic to perform manipulation of the NOTES.INI file remotely will be the subject of my next column. Stay tuned for that article in next month's edition of DominoPower.

Richard Echeandia is a Principal with Tactica Technology Group in Dallas Texas. Tactica Technology Group is a Lotus Premium Business Partner offering in Domino, Lotus Notes and Management consulting services to clients nationwide. He can be reached on-line at recheand@tacticatech.com.