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Browsing files through Lotus Notes

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by link cornelius

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I am running a Domino 5.0 server and I have remote users that connect every night. In their notes client we are trying to completely hide the system from them. My problem is that the users can browse through the drive from their notes client if they go to the file menu then choose open database or switch id. From there they can copy and paste any file they want onto their desktop and run it. When doing this NT permissions no longer apply so that doesn't help. This poses a large problem forus and if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Link

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by allen610

In the NAB under server you have a sub catagory that says HTTP server. If you open that up you will see under there Allow HTTP clients to browse databases: YES or NO just put in which one you want. If it's no then the clients will only be able to access what they see on the web page you design.

by link cornelius

I can see the servers option under the names.nsf but I cannot see any http configuration. Also will the http config restrict them to browse through the files?

by mservino

Ok, a couple of things I need to be sure I understand properly. I am to understand that you have people out of the office using a Lotus Notes R5 Client to access a Lotus Notes R5 Server over the web on port, 1352 I think it is. You say that they are clicking on the file button and adding things to their desktop. Ok, here's the brunt of it. If you're talking about the client end on the clients machine, not much you can do to stop them. How ever if they select the browse option they should only be able to see what is on their local machine, including any mapped drives to your network. You can not stop them from adding something that is on their machine, period, eclamation point. If they are adding databases from the server the only way to stop them is to make sure that they are not in the ACLs or in groups in the ACLs of those databases that you don't want them to access. As for clicking the browse and then being able to view what's on the server... can't be done... it doesn't work that way. The only way that they would be able to browse the server files is if they had a drive mapped to the server, this is the only way. Browse only allows you to access Local drives. Because each client is almost like a local mini-domino server, they have complete control over it, just as someone who is standing at the server has complete control over anything that is local.

If I misunderstood something please E-mail me and I'll see if I can come up with a more appropriate response.
-Mike

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