Lotus Notes Group Sharing

To Do - Source User
1. From the Notes menus, choose File - Database - New. (or press CTRL+N)
2. In the dialog box, leave Local as the Server, and enter a Title and File Name. These can be whatever you would like. "Friends and Family", "Secondary Address Book", "Old Girlfriends", etc. The most important thing is that you choose "Personal Address Book" as the template
3. Press OK, and Notes will create the new database for you. Now we want to transfer contacts from your original Address Book, into the new one you just created. As with any change, you many want to make a backup before doing this, just to make sure you don't loose any data!
4. Open your original address book, names.nsf. Select the contacts you want to move. From the Notes menus choose Edit - Cut. (or press CTRL+X)
5. Open the new address book that you created in step #2. From the Notes menus choose Edit - Paste. (or press CTRL+V)
A secondary address book only contains Groups.

6. The personal address book database filename is "names.nsf"; the newly created "Group" address book database name can be "names2.nsf". Generally it can be found in c:\notes\data.
7. Copy "names2.nsf" to shared drive or flash drive.

To Do - Target User
1. Close Lotus Notes and all other programs related to Lotus Notes.
2. Rename names.nsf(Generally found in C:\notes\data).Dont delete it.
3. Open you notes again.It would automatically creates a new address book (names.nsf).
4. Copy "names2.nsf" from shared drive to C:\notes\data
5. Open the new address book (names.nsf) from the workspace and then open the "Group" address book("names2.nsf") by file->database->open.5.Copy the content from the "names2.nsf" to "names.nsf" address book.

References:
http://www.lotusnoteshelp.blogspot.com/2008/03/error-namesnsf-file-does-not-contain.html
http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/secondary-directory