We have an NT network that serves about 350 users. We recently purchased an F720 to place our data on. We have successfully migrated our user homes, some SQL databases, and some misc other stuff, but we are having serious problems getting the Filer and Lotus Notes to work together. I have followed the Netapp whitepaper on migrating Lotus Notes databases to the filer utilizing option 1 (binaries and id's on the server, data on the filer). Ever since we have migrated our data to the filer, we have consistent database corruptions on both our e-mail server and our application server (both running Notes 4.6.5a). On our e-mail server, user mailboxes will get corrupted sometimes and the "mail.box" will get corrupted other times. On our application server, we have one database in particular that seems to be the main culprit of corruptions and it is a 2.5 Gb mail-in database that we use for contact management. About the only thing that Netapp support has been able to tell us so far is to disable oplocks. I have tried this at both the share level and at the filer level, neither of which helped. Currently we have re-enabled it filer wide and disabled it only at the share points where the Notes servers access the filer. Our filer is running 5.3.7 R2. Our notes servers are accessing the filer through a mapped drive connected to the '\ipaddress\share$' on the filer (yes I did use a hidden share here), and Notes is not running as a service. We had to put a stop to this because the service would not run interactively with the console and we could not connect to it using the remote administrator.

I'm sure I have missed some details that I would be more than happy to fill in if it would help. Needless to say, we are not very happy with our Notes/Filer integration. If anyone has ANY suggestion on how to stop the corruptions, make Notes run as a service (interactively), or just plain make it work, your input would be greatly appreciated.

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