Jan Schulz

Oh my, wasn't there a more professional way to do this:


Basicly it looks like they took two things and just placed them on top of each other... When you click on the splash screen you can move it around, but without the progress bar. If you click on another process and then on the notes process, only the progressbar is shown (fun again...).

Anyway: back to the basic client... Why?

• You can open two ID Files/ Notes instances at the same time (normal and Admin)
• Simple much faster
• a lot easier for the admin (i know the internals of my data directory to fix any isue I came across, but not of the data/workspace one...)
• I haven't found anything in the fancy new UI, which I really need.
  

8.5 will be bad: I can't open two IDs anymore, because I need the designer client in my admin instance, which is usually the second client I open. And using Designer in 8.5 means that I have to open my admin notes first (one of them can be a standard client, but it must be the first one), which basicly means that each time I have to look something up in the design, I have to close my normal basic notes, my admin basic notes, open the admin standard notes, switch to designer and open my normal notes. And it takes ages to open a not-yet-opend database in DDE. This sucks!

Notes 8 and higher seems to listen to some ports. Unfortunatelly it seems that it listen to the wrong interface, as I get a firewall warning:


TCPView shows this:


So notes listen on all interfaces (0.0.0.0) instead of on an local one (which would show 127.0.0.1). To show another example, here is "hamster", a local mailserver, which does the right thing and binds only to the 127.0.0.1 interface and never showed up via such a firewall warning:

So two things:

• Why does Notes need to listen on all interfaces?
  If I guess right it is used to communicate between the 'oldstyle' nlnotes and the new eclipse user interface. If so: no need to bind to 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1 is enought. This could also mean that someone outside can use my nlnotes autenticated client to see the information?
  Or is notes expecting callbacks from the server? That would be something new for me and as calling nlnotes itself does not do this, so I suspect that this is not the case.
  => So I see no reason why notes couldn't bind to 127.0.0.1 only: less problems with security and no problems with the firewall...
  
• If notes needs to bind to that interface, the installer needs to drill a hole into the firewall, as *every* other windows ("server"-) programm, which needs to do that (this includes skype, bittorent thingies and so on...). I've normaly no admin rights on my laptop (hapy user of sudo fror windows) and our normal office users do not have that at all -> we had to add that to all clients -more or less- manually after installing the client :-(

So: did I miss something? If not: can someone at IBM please fix either the interface-binding or the installer? Thanks!