Can anyone suggest a solution?
Christian Barth
barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Tue Feb 2 18:34:04 GMT 1999
> We have large PC userbase and a not-so-large (but equally loud) Unix
> user base. We have a requirement to "PopUp" information windows on ALL
> our user's screens with an absolute minimum of manual intervention (ie
> type the message once and then forget it).
>
> We can manage the Unix X servers but can't seem to find a UNIX
> application that will get th message(s) to our PC community.
>
> Is there anything in Samba that would give us what we need?
> or is there another UNIX application that will do what we want.
smbclient has the -M opinion to send messages to PC's. The problem
is, you have to know the pc-name, not the user name. But the output
of smbstatus (and its options) and some "scripting magic" should do
so.
I haven't written some thing like this my self, but would be
intressted in includíng some thing like "Server going down now" in
the shutdown scripts to inform PC users.
Christian
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