Sending Winpopup Messages

Michal heja at xox.pl
Fri May 7 19:07:50 GMT 1999


Gareth Williams wrote:
> 
> Sending Winpopup messages is possible by issuing the command
> smbclient -M <host>.
> 
> How do I send a winpopup message to a user, or a workgroup.
> If I type smbclient -M <workgroup> I get 'Unknown Host'.

I suggest you write a proper script that sends winpopups to all machines
with certain users logged in or to ones that belong to a certain
workgroup. The latter you can retrieve from a command 
nmblookup <workgroup>

[snip]

> 
> What am I doing wrong???!
>
Nothing, just try to experiment...

I wish you luck

Michal


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