Thanks all for your help. I am using:
echo 'Hello, World!' | smbclient -M [NETBIOSNAME] -U [SERVERNAME] ...and that works great. It pops up a "Messenger Service" box on the Windows box... Cheers, Ben -----Original Message----- From: Gary Stainburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 June 2003 09:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Edward Dekkers Subject: Re: Help: Sending Messages to Windows Machines On Wednesday 11 Jun 2003 12:53 am, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Hill, Benjamin W wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to send a message from a Redhat machine to a > > Windows machine like a Windows "net send [USERNAME]" command? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ben > > From memory I think there's an option for that in smbclient. Try > reading the man page for that. You need to: echo My Message|smbclient -M <netbiosname> > > I also think winpopup needs to be running on the Windows box (you > didn't specify OS version). Winpopup does need to be loaded, but as AFAIK it's only available for the Win9X/ME family, and not NT/2K/XP. There are however a number of downloadable replacements including RealPopup which I'm evaluating. For Linux there's LinPopup. > > Regards, > Ed. -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
