Windows broadcast message

[Michael Glauche]

Ondrej Hanak wrote:
> 
> Hallo all,
> does anybody know how to send broadcast message from Linux (UNIX) to all
> Windows clients on local network? Or better to connected stations to
> samba server?
> I wanna send this during shutdown sequence signaled by UPS.
> Thanks for tips and nice day with samba ;)
> 
>                                                 Hoj O.H.
I wrote some small PHP3 script for exact this purpose. 
It parses the output of smbstatus, then sends smbclient -M to those
hosts.

You can get it from:
http://www.sambahq.de/projekte/smbmessage/

regards,
   Michael
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