samba - Jul 1999 - winpopup

Hi,

I have a linux (redhat 6.0) print server and I am running samba 2.0.3-8
serving win95 machines. I would like the print server to send a message to
the win95 when a print job is completed. To do that, I run winpopup on
win95. However, if win95 users close winpopup, they do not receive any
message. Is there any more realiable method to communicate with win95
machines?

I would appreciate any comments. Thanks.

Suryani.
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Suryani Lim 
Department of Psychology          
University of Melbourne           
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia

Email: s.lim@psych.unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9344 4449
Fax:   +61 3 9347 6618

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:57:02 +1000, hai scritto:
>I have a linux (redhat 6.0) print server and I am running samba 2.0.3-8
>serving win95 machines. I would like the print server to send a message to
Why don't you (your users) open the printer window and look at the job queue
(as you would do with a win9x printer server)? Maybe it's not perfectly
syncronized with what happens on the server?

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giulioo@tiscalinet.it

Greetings,

got some winpopup probs. Sending goes okay, and I'd like to get an 
xmessage window by receiving. Thus, I added a line like this to the 
[global] section in /etc/samba/smb.conf:


    message command = /bin/sh -c '/opt/scripts/winpopup.sh %m %f' &


The invoked script (/opt/scripts/winpopup.sh) looks like this:
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#!/bin/sh
#$1 is the name of the sending machine, %m
#$2 is the file where samba saves the message, %f

echo "" >> $2	#appends a blank line to the message
echo $1 >> $2	#appends the name of the sending machine
xmessage -center -file $2	#pops up a window with the whole thing
rm $2		#removes the message file
-------------------------

Prob is that by receiving a message, sender machine says "sent OK",
but
nothing happens at all. Any ideas? (file permissions are okay, script is 
working when invoked from command line)

BTW I emerged the linpopup package, and tried it out as suggested:

    message command = /usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s

This way the message arrives at linpopup, but I have to run it manually 
to be able to read it. Some kind of lin-doesn't-pop-up. ?)

Suggestions?

giraff