notes.exe closes itself when launched from netlogon script

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Kevin

Hi,

I'm having some weird issue:

I have to make lotus notes to start automatically from some
netlogon .bat script.
so I call c:\lotus\notes\notes.exe in my script, it'll do stuff and
then will call nlnotes.exe and terminate itself; this is ok, but as
soon as my netlogon script comes to its end, nlnotes.exe is terminated
as well.

what I've tried so far:
call notepad.exe after notes.exe: lotus is "automatically" closed
after I exit notepad
call notes.exe from some vbs script: no changes

notepad.exe seems to suspend the processing of the bat file until it's
closed

When i use the notepad.exe trick and check some things with "process
explorer" i find that nlnotes.exe has no know parents (that's normal i
guess, because it's launched from notes.exe which is already
terminated)

I do not see any "connection" between nlnotes.exe and the netlogon
script, but it keeps on closing itself every time

I can't directly launch nlnotes.exe because notes.exe does stuff
before it starts nlnotes.exe ( http://xrl.us/7syb )

I'd like to launch that notes.exe thing detached from everything else.

Thanks in advance!!
 
thanks for your answer alf, but it didn't help
i'd be glad to try every other ideas you may have
 
Hello,

why don´t you use
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
to start notes. Then notes is invoked on startup after any user has logged
in. ( Maybe you should set the rights in a restrictive way on this dir to
prevent the "common" user to change things there )
A more compatible way to write the path is %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\startup

greets

alf maier
 
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