notes.exe closes itself when launched from netlogon script

[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!!

 

[Guest]

Hello,

try start instead of call ..

alf maier

 

[Kevin]

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

 

[Guest]

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