In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:
 
> Has anyone out there run into this client/server gotcha?  And, if so, how
> did you work around it?
 
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> The real problem was that the HP9000 server for that application was down:
> as per the posted_on_the_welcome_screen downtime schedule.
 
Off-the-top-of-my-head, how about something simple like a "finger" client on
the PCs that gets auto-launched when the users go into windows (or whatever)
that fingers "uptime@<serverhostname>". The .plan file can announce your hosts
schedule.
 
Free finger clients for windows (winsock) and other platforms abound. Un*x
systems have the servers bundled with them, and although I haven't looked for
a free 3000-based finger server, if there's not one already, it's a pretty
easy server to write up [I know- it only took me a couple hours to write one
from scratch for our NetMail system].
 
 
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