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Conference gyro::internet_toolss

Title:	Internet Tools
Notice:	Report ALL NETSCAPE Problems directly to kdlucas@netscape.com.rnet? Read note 448.L for beginner information.
Moderator:	teco.mro.dec.com::tecotoo.mro.dec.com::mayer

Created:	Fri Jun 25 1993
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4714
Total number of notes:	40609

4572.0. "Accessing Notes files from Internet" by ROMEDU::NEBBIA (Mario Nebbia @RIO - Rome, Italy) Wed Mar 26 1997 02:42

Can anybody please sumarize issues about accessing Notes Files via Internet?

-	Which gateway can be used to access Notes from inside Easynet?

-	Is it possible to access Notes from outside Easynet? If so, how can
	it be done? Which notes files are supposed to accessible from there?

I found lots of pointers and references in this conferences and in other ones,
but up to now I was unable to find out a complete answer.

Regards

Mario

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4572.1		BUSY::SLAB	Catch you later!!	`Wed Mar 26 1997 07:55`	3
	http://altavista.notes.lkg.dec.com:8000/
4572.2		axel.zko.dec.com::FOLEY	http://axel.zko.dec.com	`Wed Mar 26 1997 10:13`	10
	Notesfiles are internal to Digital. They are not accessable from the outside. Many, if not all, notesfiles are available via the web (.1) or via newsgroups that are only available to internal users. mike
4572.3	As per .2, this interface only works WITHIN the Easynet	SMURF::PBECK	Who put the bop in the hale-de-bop-de-bop?	`Wed Mar 26 1997 11:24`	11
	Actually, .1 points to a way to _search_ notes via the web. http://www-esn.lkg.dec.com/decnotes/ is the URL for category-based notes reading and writing via the web. Be aware, though, that this interface is extremely limited; if you're accustomed to used anything beyond the bare minimum in a notes reader (e.g. "unseen" notes tracking, decent fonts, decent keyboard shortcuts) you'll probably find it less than satisfactory. There are people that use it, though. To each their own...
4572.4	Internet doesn't always mean "web"	SMURF::PBECK	Who put the bop in the hale-de-bop-de-bop?	`Wed Mar 26 1997 11:28`	9
	By the way, in .0 when you say "via Internet" do you explicitly mean "using a web-based GUI", or do you mean (more generally) "using TCP/IP instead of DECnet"? The Notes clients running on VMS (character cell and X) and the ones running on Windows (Netnotes at least) support access to notes via TCP/IP, provided the node hosting the conference also is running TCP/IP and you can dope out its DNS domain name.
4572.5		BUSY::SLAB	Crash, burn ... when will I learn?	`Wed Mar 26 1997 11:35`	3
	I thought .1 was a list of accessible conferences.
4572.6		VAXCPU::michaud	Jeff Michaud - ObjectBroker	`Wed Mar 26 1997 11:57`	3
	> I thought .1 was a list of accessible conferences. nope
4572.7		BUSY::SLAB	Crazy Cooter comin' atcha!!	`Wed Mar 26 1997 12:15`	5
	Oops, cut/pasted the wrong one. Sorry. But you CAN use it to find conferences if need be. 8^)
4572.8		BIGQ::SILVA	http://www.ziplink.net/~glen/decplus/	`Mon Apr 14 1997 17:59`	8
	How does one access a notesfile on the web, that is a membership notesfile? Can this be done? Glen
4572.9		BUSY::SLAB	Always a Best Man, never a groom	`Mon Apr 14 1997 18:08`	5
	Darn, where did I see this recently?? I'll be back.
4572.10	Only because I remember who asked the question ...	BUSY::SLAB	Always a Best Man, never a groom	`Mon Apr 14 1997 18:11`	18
	DECnotes Reply 4599.7 in Conference easynet_conferences on turris by QUARK::LIONEL (Free advice is worth every cent) on Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:31:34 EDT This isn't the right place for this discussion - GALVIA::VAXNOTES_BUGS is. If the users are using TCP/IP (I think this is what you meant by "Internet") and have fixed usernames and host names, you can add a member using the non-obvious syntax node.fac.dec.com::username - but this won't work if the node is a dynamically-changing numerical IP address. I suggest you raise this issue to whomever has decided that your VMS systems will go away. Steve
4572.11		alphy.lkg.dec.com::thomas	The Code Warrior	`Mon Apr 14 1997 18:23`	1
	You can't access a restricted conference via the Web.
4572.12		XSTACY::imladris.ilo.dec.com::grainne	Grainne Ni Choiligh	`Tue Apr 15 1997 05:38`	10
	I think the reply quoted in .10 is describing how to setup a NetNotes user with access to a restricted conference. This works as described. Since NetNotes runs on a PC running Windows NT or Windows '95 with TCP/IP as transport, it's an alternative Notes client if you've lost your VMS account (it does, however require access to a Notes server, but you don't need an account on the Notes server machine.) However, as .11 stated, you aren't really accessing the restricted conference 'via the web.'
4572.13		AZUR::POULICHET	m'enfin ?!	`Wed Apr 16 1997 08:29`	7
	FYI. I've been working for two years on a web based interface application called WIS (standing for Web Information and Support). One of the functionality is to allow Digital customers to access Notes files (even members restricted) from their favorite browsers. - Yvan.