smbclient messages to a specific user ?

[Cole, Timothy D.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Glauche [SMTP:mg at plum.de]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 13, 2000 13:56
> To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject:	Re: smbclient messages to a specific user ?
> 
> Giulio Orsero wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:46:03 +1100, hai scritto:
> > 
> > >I would volunteer to code it, if there is some kind of documentation /
> > >information about it.
> > 
> > == http://front.linuxcare.com.au/tridge/diary/
> > Marcus dropped by the office to remind me about an email he sent asking
> > how to do bcast WinPopup messages. We looked at how WinXX did it with
> > tcpdump-smb and found it is a mailslot to UDP/138. I hacked up a file
> > with the appropriate data and tested it with netcat, managing to send
> > messages to Win9X and NTws with no problem. I found that the message
> > limit is about 512 bytes - quite a bit larger than the size that the
> > WinPopup GUI can do. If you send larger than that to NT then it rejects
> > the message. Win98 gets a fatal error in WinPopup. Some devious person
> > could probably turn that into a exploit if they wanted to.
> > ==
> 
> Hmm .. looks interesting ..
> But its from 5th November, Andrew : is that code aviable ? 
> I would like to hack it into smbclient ...
> 
	The code for sending WinPopup messages is already present in
smbclient (it has been for a long time, actually), and can be used via the
-M option to send to the specified hostname/IP address.  The only additional
thing needed here is the username lookup, which should be relatively
trivial.