What would be the best way to run python client in the background

[Tim Golden]

[gel]

| I have written a python client server app [...]
| I want to run the client end of the app more or less invisibly 
| (no console) on the XP clients when ever a users logs on.  

You say "when[]ever a user logs on" but does this app
need to be run on a per-user basis? Or could it run all
the time -- ie as a Windows Service -- and do enough to
determine which user is logged on when it needed to?

The normal way is to run a Win32 service. There are several
posts on the subject around the Python and Python-Win32
mailing lists / newsgroups. The alternative is to set something
to run when any user logs in to run without a window. Again,
there are posts on the subject, including one I seem to remember
from Robin Becker, which tell how to do this kind of thing.

Let us know if you can't find anything which seems to
fit the bill.

TJG

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