Gregg Eldred

If you are new to Domino 8.5.x, you have discovered that when Windows starts the Domino Service, you are no longer presented with the Domino console. In order to view to console, you have to launch the Domino Console application (usually sitting right there on the Desktop).

When you first install, or upgrade, your Domino server, the Domino console application will launch without an issue. However, I have found that after a restart, the Domino console will not launch, as it presents you with a dialog box stating that it can't find the server or that the IP Address is wrong. This is probably my fault; something I have done (or not done). When I was presented with the dialog box, I had to enter two lines into the Notes.INI of the server in order to get the Domino console to start.

For the sake of this post, let's say that you have only one Domino server running on a Windows Server and it is on IP Address 192.168.1.100. Add these two lines to the Notes.INI:
TCPIP_TCPIPAddress=192.168.1.100
TCPIP_ControllerTCPIPAddress=192.168.1.100

A restart of the server is not necessary for these entries and once entered, the Domino 8.5.x console will start.

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Comment posted by Bernd Webster11/23/2009 12:34:17 PM
Homepage: http://www.lntoolbox.com

Hello Gregg,

there exist a filed in the server document. Ports -> Internet Ports -> Server Controller

Which allows you to enter a IP address and a port to it.
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By the way... your issue does only happen if you are using a internal IP address and have used a external IP address in combination with NAT.

If you didn´t use NAT then the DNS reverse entry could be wrong (and or a hostentry is set).

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Comment posted by Gregg Eldred11/23/2009 02:03:34 PM
Homepage: http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf

@Bernd - Excellent tip, thank you! I knew that if I posted this, someone much smarter than I would show me what I was doing wrong. I appreciate your comment.

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Comment posted by Christian Herø08/12/2011 09:44:03 AM
Homepage: http://snillhund.blogspot.com

Hell Gregg.

Had the same issue at customer site. Adding the mentioned setting in notes.ini did the trick. Thank You!!! The "Interactive Services Detection" dialog is still there though.

Binding IP address like this is normally somting I've assosiated with cluster servers. For the server in question there is a NIC with four ports.

That may be the cause of the problem. My colleagues tells me that this is not an issue at other customers. Domino starts as a service and the Server Controller works, without the notes.ini settings. I don't know about their NIC setup though. I'll have to check.

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