Re: Seamless Server 2008 screen before application
Chris Roberts <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.rdesktop.user |
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On Friday 12 Mar 2010, Paulo Pacheco wrote: > QUESTION: Is there a way to hide (or automatically minimize) that > initial screen, before the actual application pops up? I don't know of anyway of doing this, but: 1. If you don't mind having the Windows taskbar in your Linux desktop, then you could run this (explorer.exe with nodesktop registry hack) at Linux start-up and then have no further logins thereafter. All further applications could re-use the same login. 2. If you don't want the Windows taskbar, then the same could probably be achieved by running a different application that is running all the time. For example, you could create a batch file called C:\sleep.bat with the following contents: @ping 127.0.0.1 -n 86400 -w 1000 > nul @ping 127.0.0.1 -n %1% -w 1000> nul I believe there may be a sleep function in W2K8 which you might use instead. Then run this application upon Linux login, it will perform the first login when you first connect, and then stay connected for 24 hours (24x60x60=86400). To log the user off, the best thing would probably be to run "shutdown -l" which will log the user off and terminate the sleep.bat script. I would have thought that this could probably be added to run automatically when you log off the Linux desktop. Obviously both the above methods still show the login screen, albeit during the Linux login process, where perhaps it is less intrusive? This method also results in every user being logged into the Windows system, perhaps unnecessarily. It would also prevent automatically logging off idle users (something I do on our terminal server to minimise load). That said, if you can put up with those disadvantages, all further apps run seamlessly with no login (at least in our setup - with the cendio and fontis.au.com patches). All a bit of a bodge, but with additional thought you might refine it into something usable! Good luck. -- Chris Roberts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev