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The CONTEST program that comes with LEI 3 and LEI 6 (Note: It is no longer supported with LEI6.5.) provides the ability to test an LEI Connection Document outside the LEI Admin database. On a Windows server you would run "ncontest 'my connection'" and it simply returns a success or failure message if the connection was established. By using the optional "-p" parameter CONTEST returns all the properties of the LCConnection object created by the Lotus Connector API. My guess is that you are looking for any hidden meaning within the Token column, but there's not much to be had there. The values you see under the "Name" column are the various properties of the object; the "Token" column displays the internal Long value that Lotus stores as the datatype (it's more efficient to store a number than text); the "Datatype" column is the LotusScript datatype equivalent.
FYI -- You can also see these properties and their values if you write a LotusScript agent that creates an LCConnection object (see examples in the "LSX for Lotus Connectors Manual" in your Notes/Domino help directory) and run that agent with the LotusScript debugger turned on.
Expand the LCConnection object and viola! When you do this with the debugger you should also see the values of the properties, not just their names and datatypes.
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