smbclient messages to a specific user ?

[Michael Glauche]

"Cole, Timothy D." wrote:
>         Basically the way it works is that each user that logs in registers
> a NetBIOS/WINS record:  username<03h>, with the IP of the machine they're
> logged in on.  I believe when net send sends to a specific user, it looks up
> this record, then dispatches the message to the messenger service at that
> particular IP.
> 
>         I don't think it's any more involved than that, since it's not
> unheard of to have problems with having two users with the same name in
> different domains to each randomly get print notifications and other
> messages intended for the other.  I think this is because the domain isn't a
> component of the 0x03 name, so the most recent user to log in gets all
> messages for all users with the same name in all domains.
> 
>         This also suggests to me that the actual windows messanging setup is
> machine-based, rather than user-based.  I have really no idea how terminal
> server copes with that, or if it even does.
Ok .. 
if I look up the WINS user I get something like 
"USER#03" 948303330 10.1.3.2 64R

So, can I just call a cli_message_start with that IP,
and pass the message ?

What about sending messages to a workgroup ? How do I get the members
of a wg ? 

TIA,
  Michael

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