Bringing Notes 4.5 server live...

[wilfy]

Hi All,

I have installed Wine 1 on Gentoo under OpenVZ, and have winecgf appearing nicely on my desktop.

I have an old notes 4.5 server which is still doing what I want, hosted until recently under Win2K. I thought I'd virtualise it and turn off the hardware for good.

I have long since lost/binned the install disks, so I built a squeaky new Win2K installtion and applied SP4. I copied the notes directory across, and then the notes.ini file into \winnt.

It wouldn't start, so I added Netbeui to the supported protocols and up she came straight away.

I bzipped up the win2k directory, notes directory and ini file and installed this under wine.

I added paths to the win2k directory and win2k/system32 directory *after* the wine dirs in system.reg and tried to start notes (nserver.exe) by navigating into the notes home directory and typing 'wine nserver.exe'.

After a while, a 'DOS' window comes up on my desktop, as it does under Win2K

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Lotus Domino r Server, Release 4.5a (Intl), 20 December 1996
Copyright c 1985-1996, Lotus Development Corporation, All Rights Reserved

That's as far as it gets. I started nserver as follows:-

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paul@grunt ~/.wine/drive_d/notes $ wine nserver.exe
fixme:win:GetWindowPlacement not supported on other process window 0x10024
fixme:netbios:Netbios NCBADDNAME: stub, returning success

Under Win2K, this is what I get and I can connect and use the server from my client...

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Lotus Domino r Server, Release 4.5a (Intl), 20 December 1996
Copyright c 1985-1996, Lotus Development Corporation, All Rights Reserved

25/06/2008 16:55:19   Informational: The registry value
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl\Win32PrioritySeparation
is currently set to 2. For better server performance, change the setting to 0
25/06/2008 16:55:22   This system is a NetBIOS name server for port LAN0
25/06/2008 16:55:22   Database Replicator started
25/06/2008 16:55:25   Mail Router started for domain PAUL INGRAM GROUP
25/06/2008 16:55:25   Router: Internet SMTP host rabbit in domain
25/06/2008 16:55:30   Index update process started
25/06/2008 16:55:35   Stats agent shutdown
25/06/2008 16:55:40   Agent Manager started
25/06/2008 16:55:41   AMgr: Executive '1' started
25/06/2008 16:55:41   AMgr: Database 'SMTPAG.NSF' is read-only. Skipping database
25/06/2008 16:55:45   No Administration Server has been designated for the Public Address Book.
25/06/2008 16:55:45   Administration Process started
25/06/2008 16:55:50   Schedule Manager started
25/06/2008 16:55:50   SchedMgr: Validating Schedule Database
25/06/2008 16:55:50   SchedMgr: Error processing calendar profile document
(NoteID: NT000020FA) in database GroupCalendar.nsf: Specified item is not present
25/06/2008 16:55:50   Error validating user Staff while processing calendar appointment (NoteID: NT00002102) in database GroupCalendar.nsf: Specified item is not present
25/06/2008 16:55:50   SchedMgr: Done validating Schedule Database
25/06/2008 16:55:50   SchedMgr: Calculating hourly statistics
25/06/2008 16:55:50   SchedMgr: Done calculating hourly statistics
25/06/2008 16:55:55   Calendar Connector started
25/06/2008 16:56:00   Database Server started
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Any (constructive) ideas, please?

Best Regards, Paul.

[vitamin]

That's as far as it gets. I started nserver as follows:-

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paul@grunt ~/.wine/drive_d/notes $ wine nserver.exe
fixme:win:GetWindowPlacement not supported on other process window 0x10024
fixme:netbios:Netbios NCBADDNAME: stub, returning success

Wine does not support this protocol. Get yourself native Linux version of Notes.

[wilfy]

Errrr...

Thanks for your reply, but that is precisely what I don't want to do.

My version of Notes does all that I want ATM and I can see no benefit in spending (quite a lot) of money to buy a new version of Notes that works natively under Linux and offers me features I don't need.

I will investigate and see if my version supports other protocols than netbeui, otherwise I'll try out something like kvm. The purpose of the exercise is to shut down a server for good and spend nothing.

I can see that wine may be useful for other apps even if this exercise isn't going to work, and I have learnt a lot so I don't feel the effort is wasted.

Have I missed something?

Best Regards, Paul.

[wilfy]

Right, just binned netbeui and added the 'NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol' on the Win2k box and the Notes server starts up just fine and the client can still connect - so it isn't that. It doesn't need Netbeui, it needs NetBIOS.

Furthermore, the section in Notes.ini has the following entries

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LAN0=NETBIOS, 0, 15, 0
Ports=LAN0,TCPIP
SPX=NWSPX, 0, 15, 0
VINES=VINES, 0, 15, 0
TCPIP=TCP,0,15,0,,12288,

which leads me to believe it's using TCP/IP over NetBIOS.

Any more ideas?

Best Regards, Paul.

[vitamin]

Right, just binned netbeui and added the 'NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol' on the Win2k box and the Notes server starts up just fine and the client can still connect - so it isn't that. It doesn't need Netbeui, it needs NetBIOS.

Furthermore, the section in Notes.ini has the following entries

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LAN0=NETBIOS, 0, 15, 0
Ports=LAN0,TCPIP
SPX=NWSPX, 0, 15, 0
VINES=VINES, 0, 15, 0
TCPIP=TCP,0,15,0,,12288,

which leads me to believe it's using TCP/IP over NetBIOS.

Any more ideas?

Best Regards, Paul.

netbeui is a subset of NetBIOS protocol (without going into details). So same thing - Wine does not support that. Doesn't matter if it's "direct" or over TCP/IP.

[wilfy]

Ok, looks like a non runner. Shame!

Also (FX: Blush) I meant NetBIOS over TCP/IP. I must be dyxlesic.

Thanks for your help.

Best Regards, Paul.