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MOBILE ENTERPRISE POWER
Mick's travel tricks: Notes client setup for easy connectivity
By Mick Moignard
Last time in my article, "Mick's travel tricks" in the December 2001 issue of DominoPower at http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200112/travel001.html, I said I'd enlarge on the Notes client tools for travelers. This article aims to be quite a deep dive into the things you can do to maximize the Notes client travel value. So we're going to look at Connections and Locations and a few other settings that will help. Then we'll review a few things to make it all work well. Let's get started with Connections.
Connections
Connection documents in your personal address book are used to tell Notes how to reach servers. When you have a network connection, the Notes client can ask for a server by name using the facilities provided by the relevant network transport, so on an IP (Internet Protocol) connection it uses the server's common name as a DNS (Domain Name Services) lookup parameter to get the IP address. No connection document is required. But when you're using passthru servers or dialup connections, connection information must be supplied, such as passthru server names or phone numbers, and that's where connection documents are required.
Connection documents come in several flavors. The one we'll start off with is the Notes Direct Dial connection, because this one, for the international traveler, is the one that you really do need to get right. But you only need to do that once. Then we'll look briefly at some of the other connection types.
The main purpose of the Notes Direct Dial connection is to supply the phone number of a Notes server, probably your home server, and to supply it in the correct format. This interfaces with the phone settings of the location documents, which specify the dialing details for that location. Now, to get this right requires a little digression on the format of phone numbers and how the various parts of them work. If we take my home server, which in the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) official format is +44 (0) 1865 383112, we can break this down into various parts:
- The + sign: This represents the local international access code, which is required if you dial this number from outside the UK. In most of Europe, this is 00. In the US, it's often 011. Note that this part of the dialed string is not under my control. It's not actually part of my number. Its part of your phone system, the one the call originates from.
- 44 is the Country code for the UK.
- (0) is the UK long distance access code. It's not used when dialing into the UK from outside the UK. It is required on all UK long-distance calls.
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