Help starting and stopping the DNet client automatically

[Dougal]

Hi Guys,

Does anyone know of a way to start and stop the Dnetc client on a time schedule under Win2K? I've got the possability of adding the client to a couple of PC's at work but to only run it overnight. I figure I can posssibly use the Windows task scheduler but this still generates messages on-screen that the user needs to clear manually.

Does anyone know if it's possible to do this automatically with no user intervention?

 

[RaySun2Be]

Dougal,
If I remember correctly,

1. Install the DNET client as a service DNETC.EXE -INSTALL
2. Make sure it's running "hidden" in the config setup
3. Use the AT command to start and stop the service. I created 2 simple script files, 1 to start the service, the other to stop the service.
NET START DNETC and NET STOP DNETC

Then I used the AT command to schedule the start and stop of the DNETC service.

AT \\PC_NAME 5:30pm /EVERY:m,t,w,th,f c:\dnetc\netstart.bat

AT \\PC_NAME 6:30am /EVERY:m,t,w,th,f c:\dnetc\netstop.bat


That should start the dnetc service at 5:30pm every night, stop the service every night, but let it run all weekend.

 

[soni]

Well Ray have it down

I have run RC5 like this, works great
You can also have one that start and stop during lunch Thats 30min extra per. machine/day