samba - Feb 2004 - Pop-up messages to domain members?

Is it possible to send a pop-up message to all connected Windows stations in a
whole domain via one command, or is it necessary to send one message per
command to each station?  It must be a command line utility since X isn't
running on the server.


Anders Norrbring

> Is it possible to send a pop-up message to all connected Windows
> stations in a
> whole domain via one command, or is it necessary to send one
> message per
> command to each station?
PER HELP on Windows XP...

Net send

Sends messages to other users, computers, or messaging names on the
network. The Messenger service must be running to receive
messages.

net send {name | * | /domain[:name] | /users} message 

Parameters 

name

Specifies the user name, computer name, or messaging name to send
the message to. If the name is a computer name that contains blank
characters, enclose the alias in quotation marks (" "). Long user
names may lead to problems when used as NetBIOS names. NetBIOS
names are limited to 16 characters, and Windows 2000 reserves the
16th character.

*

Sends the message to all the names in your domain or workgroup. 

/domain[:name]

Sends the message to all the names in the computer's domain. If name
is specified, the message is sent to all the names in the specified
domain or workgroup. 

/users

Sends the message to all users connected to the server. 

message

Specifies text to be sent as a message.

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I don't believe you can send a message to a whole domain using smbclient
(please someone correct me if I'm wrong), I think you will have to do it one
at a time, or write a script:

$ smbclient -M host 
<then will prompt for message>

Hope this helps.

Michael Brown

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:07:19 +0100
"Anders Norrbring" <anders@norrbring.biz> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to send a pop-up message to all connected Windows stations
in a
> whole domain via one command, or is it necessary to send one message per
> command to each station?  It must be a command line utility since X
isn't
> running on the server.
> 
> 
> Anders Norrbring
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