Running Wideclient from FSUIPC.ini

[ssa]

Hi Peter,

I want to be able to, when I start FS9 on the server, run wideclient.exe on client PCs and then in turn Wideclient will run PM modules.

What I did is give the following command in FSUIPC.ini:

[Programs]

Run1=\\CDU\cdu\wideclient.exe

...

But I have a message saying:

"Wide Client Error

Same program or cless already running! (FS98MAIN)"

What am I doing wrong?

I wish you and your family a Healthy and Happy 2005.

[Pete Dowson]

I want to be able to, when I start FS9 on the server, run wideclient.exe on client PCs and then in turn Wideclient will run PM modules.

The only way to do that is to put a shortcut to WideClient in your Windows "startup" folder, so that Windows runs it after loading. Have your PM programs started by the "RunReady" parameters in WideClient.ini.

Then WideClient will sit idling in the Client PC, and will connect only when it sees the Server and then run the PM programs.

What I did is give the following command in FSUIPC.ini:

[Programs]

Run1=\\CDU\cdu\wideclient.exe

...

But I have a message saying:

"Wide Client Error

Same program or cless already running! (FS98MAIN)"

Of course. There's no way the link \\CDUis going to get the program actually running in the client. That's just a path telling Windows where to get the program to be run. So it will be running (very inefficiently) from the folder on the client, but within the current PC -- the one running FS.

Since WideClient cannot normally run in the same system as FS, you get that error.

I don't know of any way of getting a program to run in a Networked PC without having something there which is ready to run it for you. In this case, that "something" would be WideClient, which you need to have running first.

Regards,

Pete

[ssa]

Peter,

Thanks for the very fast reply!

Simple it is... :oops:

Happy 2005 again..