Keep SC Running for More than 5 min

[strestus]

Hi is there anyway to make SC trying to connect for more than 5 min ?


My idea is to post link on my IT support web site


for people to download the SC and than within 5 hours I will access their computer to help them , but the problem is that if I am late for more than 5 minutes will have to ask them again to download an try to connect.

Any help appriciated

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[redge]

5min is hard coded.
if you know how to modify and compile the code, you can hack the code for change the default value 5 min to 300min

[strestus]

Well If I could I would

Is there anyone here that could do this for me or guide me how to do it ?


I think it might be helpfull for other people as well

[YY]

I don't know how to modify the SC source to produce the said feature, but I wrote a simple DOS batch file (tested with WinXP) that can auto-restart the sc.exe if it is terminated -- either due to time out because remote host is not yet reached, or an established connection is broken

You need to create a dedicated SC.exe and a .BAT for this purpose.

1. the SC.exe
This SC must only have one [HOST] definition (Obviously!), and will connect to this host automatically once excuted (use the [DIRECT] command). So the content of the helpdesk.txt s/b like this:

[HOST]
Direct To YY's DeskTop
-connect desktop-yy.dyndns.org:5500 -noregistry
.........
.........
[DIRECT]


2. the Auto-Restart.BAT
Use a text editor to create the file with these three lines:
:StartSC
START /WAIT SC.exe
GOTO StartSC



That all! Put this 2 files together, and double click the Auto-Restart.BAT, it will try (and re-try) to make the connection.
Close the DOS windows will terminate the Auto-Restart.BAT and thus stop the auto-restart operation.

Note: You must use the REL 1.0 online creator to produce the SC.exe, [DIRECT] command is not supported in RC23.