[THIN] Starting & killing background tasks

I've been trying for a couple of weeks to get the GFI Faxmaker client to
work correctly on our Win2k/XPfr2 servers. According to the manufacturer
Citrix is not supported, nor is their "enhanced" form supported under
Terminal Services. When I asked their support people about any possible
"fixes" or "hacks", even if unsupported, I got the following response:
 
"I will forward your suggestion to the product manager. Please remember
that
this is not a tailor made application and therefore, we cannot add all
the
features that are requested."
 
I'm sure that comment conjures up all kinds of responses (as it did for
me), but I don't have the time to argue the merits of thin computing
with people who obviously haven't seen the light. I want to get this
working since so far it is the best package I've found considering cost,
management, features and hardware requirements.
 
What I've discovered on the local console when a user (the
administrator) logs on a small program "fmstart.exe" is run from the
HKLM Run key. This somehow is grabbing requests and opening the form/fax
client (which is just small MAPI application interface to Outlook). If I
run this program (fmstart.exe) in my session the fax client starts
functioning as one would expect. Unfortunately when I do this and close
all my applications, fmstart.exe is still running in the background and
my session never closes. I'd like to try and find a way to run this when
a session opens, and then close it when the session shuts down. Is there
somewhere I can define an "ignore" list so that the session doesn't care
about it? If I open task manager I see that wfshell.exe, winlogon.exe,
and csrss.exe are all running. These are all getting ended automatically
- and I'm hoping I can add fmstart.exe to the mechanism that loads
these. I've tried adding fmstart.exe to the HKCU Run key but this must
not get used when running a seamless session. Is there an equivalent
location for seamless sessions?
 
Anyway, if anyone can help or has any ideas please let me know. I've
found a number of similar questions in the archives, but no solutions
and nothing any experimentation. I'm sure if there is a solution to this
it would benefit a number of other applications. Acrobat for one I know
has a process like this it starts up and never ends, leaving a open
empty session.
 
Thanks!!
 
Derek J. Lambert, MCSE, MCP+I, CCA, A+
MIS Manager
Columbia ParCar Corp.
 

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