LSClient.exe timeout?

[DGoodwin]

If we run the lsclient.exe <servername> in a batch file, whether it is in a login script or not, Is there a way to make the lsclient.exe timeout after a certain period. Reasoning is that if our server were to be down at all, we would not want our users login script to sit there for more than say 2 seconds. Any ideas?

[Hemoco]

You can use this syntax in a bat file:

start cmd.exe /C "c:\lsclient.exe servername"

or better, move the lsclient part to a vbs file and run this from the bat file.

[DGoodwin]

No, we use the standard batch files. I am more curious if there is or could be a silent switch implemented into the lsclient.exe file. so we could use "lsclient.exe /s server". That way the end user would not have to see the screen wait for the client to start up. Sure we could use the start /wait option for windows, but that gets more tricky if there are windows 2000 clients in the mix. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Hemoco]

Do you use a vbscript for the startup script?
If so you can start the lsclient asynchronous in the background while the rest of your script continues.