[Samba] Broadcast message with smbclient -M

[Joel Hammer]

I don't know of a simple broadcast method.

To broadcast to all clients on your network, I can think of two possibilities.
There is a findsmb Perl script which comes with the samba. With nmbd turned
off, it will look for responding machines.
Or, if you have a wins server, 
smbclient -L winserver will list all the servers known to it.

After that, you have to write a script, I guess.

If you just want to broadcast to some clients, this could be another simple
script.

script:
#!/bin/bash
cat MyMessage | smbclient -M netbios1 &
cat MyMessage | smbclient -M netbios2 & 
cat MyMessage | smbclient -M netbios3 &

Then, put your message into file MyMessage and run the script.

To be more organized, you could keep all your users in one file, users:
netbios1
netbios2
netbios3

Then, your script might be :

#!/bin/bash
for i in `cat users`
do
cat MyMessage | smbclient -M $i &
done

I haven't tried any of this stuff out, but, it sure looks simple.

Forget the "user interface" for this stuff. You are better off without it.

Joel

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:28:32AM -0700, Tomas Florian wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to broadcast a message with smbclient -M?
> 
> Also, is there some utility out there with user interface where I can select
> which machines should receive the message and then send it out?
>