CONFIGURING


Enabling a network port on a server
If the server port you want to enable will be the Notes® workstation's only means of connecting with the server, do not use this procedure. Instead, use the Ports setting in the server's NOTES.INI file.

About this task

If the Notes workstation already has a port in common with the server and you still cannot connect to it, create a Connection document in Notes.

Procedure

1. From the Domino® Administrator or Web Administrator, click the server on which you want to enable a port.

2. Click the Configuration tab.

3. Do one of these:

4. Select the port you want to enable, and then select Port enabled.

5. Click TCP/IP Options, Options, or COMx Options, and specify information as appropriate.

6. Click OK.

7. Click the Server -> Status tab.

8. Do one of these so that the change takes effect:

9. In the Server document, click the Ports -> Notes Network Ports tab, and edit these fields as necessary:
10. Save the Server document.

11. Make sure that this server is set up to replicate its Domino Directory to other servers, or enter the preceding changes into the Server document on a server that is set up to do the replication, or other servers will not know that they can connect to this server over the newly enabled port.

Related concepts
Fine-tuning network port setup on a server

Related tasks
Encrypting NRPC communication on a server port
Compressing network data on a server port
Setting up Notes named networks
Resolving server names to network addresses in NRPC