samba - May 2003 - Winpopup to Every PC

Hello All,

	Does anyone know how one could send the same Winpopup message to all
Win-clients on a network?

	I need it for building a fail-over system, in case our primary server
goes down, I need a way to automate the process of informing all clients
that they need to log-off the network, wait a few minutes and then log
back on, while the back-up server switches a few configuration files and
restarts a few services.

	Any ideas?

	Thanks in advance,
	Robert Adkins
	IT Manager/Buyer
	Impel Industries, Inc.
	586-254-5800

Robert Adkins wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> 	Does anyone know how one could send the same Winpopup message to all
> Win-clients on a network?
When I need to so this, I use:-

for i in `smbstatus -b | tail +5 | awk '{print $3}'`; do
echo "Your machine will self-destruct in 10 seconds" | smbclient -M $i
done

You can use the -U switch to smbclient to set a name in the popup, too.

HTH,

Mike.