Creating a New User in Lotus Domino

Procedure for creating User's in Lotus Domino Server:

1.     Go to Start, Programs, Lotus Application, click Lotus Domino Administrator option and login to the Lotus Domino Administrator, click the Configure tab.

2.     In the right hand side of the window, select the Registration button and then click the sub-option person.

3.     It will ask you for the certifier name .Say cancel, Select the Organization Id, under which the user will be added, it will ask you for the password for that particular organization, enter the password and say ok. It will give you the warning message, say yes.

 

4.     It will open the Register Person Dialogue box.

 

5. Select the Advanced Checkbox.

 

a.     Under the Basic option fill the following fields:

First Name           (Give the initial of person ex: Test)
Last Name           (Give the name of person ex: user)
Password             (Give the password as password)

In Password Option Check the Set Internet Password to set the internet password as the same as lotus password

 

b) Click on Mail option and select the mail template and and mail file name

 



c).    Under Address option fill the following fields as:



 

Enter the Internet Address in Internet Address field. Leave default value for Internet domain.

d)Under ID info option fill the following fields as:

                                                                         License Type –

Choose either North American or International. The license type determines the type of ID file created and affects encryption when sending and receiving mail and encrypting data. North American is the stronger of the two types.
This field appears if the check box "Create a Notes ID for this person" is selected.

If you want to save the id file in some other location in addition to Domino Server . Select

In file Then click on Set ID File

And select the path      –            u:\notesids
Now you copy the id file to the some common folder share it and give only the read and executepermission to that folder.Note: you should not miss your id file, otherwise you won't be able to access your mail file.

e)Under Groups option fill the following fields as:

If you want to add the user to any address group add it here

 

 f)Under Roaming option fill the following fields as:

Roaming users
If you are registering Domino server roaming users, on the ID Info tab of the Register Person - New Entry dialog box, choose "In Domino Directory" as the location for storing user IDs if you want roaming users to access their IBM^® Lotus^® Notes^® IDs from their Contacts application. If you do not choose the "In Domino Directory" option, roaming users must either store their Notes ID on a file server or physically carry their Notes ID with them on a diskette or other storage media. If you elect to store the user ID in a file and in the IBM^® Lotus^® Domino^® Directory, the user IDs are stored in the user's Contacts application.

 

 

 
 6.     Now click the Tick Mark button and say Register. It will say person registration is successful.

 

 

 

Configuration:
1.  Open Lotus Domino Administrator
2.  Click on Peoples and Groups®  Address Book®  People. Select the persons name and Click on Edit Person tab.
3.   After that click on Basics and Select the User Name and copy  it. (Ex. Tuser/Information Technology/Corporate Office/Testdomain)

4.     After that Close it without saving and Now.

5.     Click on Configuration tab

6.     Click on Servers

7.     Click on Configurations

8.     Select Corporate/testdomain and Click on Edit Configuration tab.

9.  Click on Router/SMTP .

10.  Click on Restrictions and Controls.

11.  Click on SMTP Bound Controls.

12.  There at the

Allow messages only from the following Notes Addresses to be sent to the Internet

Paste the the  Username You have copied before at the end giving a ; prior to the name. Note:If you want to allow only few users to send mails to other domains. If you want to allow all users to send mails to other domain leave this field as blank.

 

 

Give a test mail and Check whether it is working properly or not.