Thursday, June 26, 2008

Error: "Lotus Notes: Error 0x1A5" when trying to start the Domino server

While starting the domino server you receive following error.
"Lotus Notes: Error 0x1A5"
Cause
The "Directory=" parameter may be missing from your notes.ini file. The value of this parameter should be set to the path of the data directory on your server.
Answer
Use the following steps to set the "Directory=" parameter in your notes.ini file:
1. Open the server's notes.ini
2. Under the "NotesProgram=" line, add "Directory=" ; for example Directory=D:\Lotus\Domino\Data.
3. Save and close the notes.ini file and start the Domino server.

Make sure that you don't have multiple notes.ini files.

1 comment:

Benrad said...

I'm currently getting this error when I attempt to add Domino as a service on my 2K3 servers. I've checked everything out and the ini is as it should be and my syntax is correct. Is there anything else you know of that I could check?

Here's the syntax:
ntsvinst -c -t"Lotus Domino Server (lotusdominoserver)" -ie:\Program Files\Lotus\Domino\notes.ini

I have checked all 3 of my notes.ini files on the different servers and they all contain the Directory parameter.