sending "WinPopup" message to a user

[Russell Kliese]

Just wanting to thank the people who responded to my problem and post
the solution that worked for me.

Russell

>>
>> Just wondering if there is a way to send a WinPopup message to a user

>> (using username). I have had a look at smbclient but it appears to
only
>> allow sending messages to a computer name.
>
>You could try and work round this. Use nmblookup to elucidate the
>machine that your use is logged into. For example, you can do this:-
>
>$ nmblookup mb#03
>querying mb on 192.168.1.255
>192.168.1.110 mb<03>
>
>this'll show you the IP address of the host you're trying to send the
>winpopup message to.
>
>Using the -S flag to nmblookup should do a node status query on the
host
>in question. I used to have this working, but on my system, nmblookup's

>status query returns nothing, and I've no idea what went wrong
>(anybody??), so I don't trust it very much at the moment. You can also
>parse the output of smbstatus to get the client name. After you've got
>the netbios name of the machine, it hsould be easy.
>
>HTH,
>
>Mike