SMBClient - Messenger service

[Simo Sorce]

We are always interested in things that add functionality into samba.
If you wish to send some patches we can look at, you are welcome.

Simo.

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 16:56, David Lee wrote:
> > Why SMBClient sends winpopup messages with multi-block message, and not
> > single block message???? Where I use multi and where I use single
> > message block??? 
> 
> The single-frame version can only send a short message (less than 128
> bytes), whereas the multi-frame version allows up to 1600 bytes total. See
> the description of the "File Sharing Protocol".  (Use Google to search for
> "INTEL Part Number 138446".) 
> 
> Over the last couple of years I have looked at generalising this code in
> Samba, and made some progress.  (In a test implementation, I was able to
> use UNIX commands such as "wall" and "write" to produce WinPopup messages
> on the client PCs.)  This required extracting, and altering, some code
> from smbclient, but this can be done in a re-useable way.
> 
> If someone of the Samba Team is willing to facilitate this, I'll willingly
> submit the changes I made as a possible starting-point.
> 
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