-all our PCs (4) start automatically when switched on (bios setup)
-on the master P3D, FMGS, Active Sky.... the apps are launched manually (in this order)
-on 3 pc clients widefs client is launched automatically via scheduled task when windows is launched
-nothing happens until the p3d is launched and it has not established a connection on the 3 widefs clients. This allows us to do navigraph updates and other intervention before launching the simulation.
-as soon as the clients connect to the p3d master, and therefore before the start of the master, a runready,close function launches the start of the client pc which executes all the respective JL applications
-when the clients have all executed their respective start and without rushing things
, we execute the start of the master p3d, we check while waiting for "table found" to appear on the p3d visual and we launch active sky.
-To stop the simu, we stop the P3D by ctrl+C, the fact that the wideserver stops cuts the connections to the wideclient which closes their starts program and therefore all the JL applications stop on the clients, I turn off the PCs remotely. on the Master, I do it with the mouse to close the applications and widows...
This generally works well.
Problems can have so many origins that it would not make sense to rule things out....
I hope my explanations will be useful to you.
best regards
gilles