[Samba] Re: Winpopup message to all user on a PDC

[Hindman, Mike J]

Ok that is pretty much what I do.. 

Except.. Most of my net sends don't end up working.. They fail unless I
explicitly do a nmblookup and specify the broadcast to find that
computer..

Seeing how im dealing with the entire contents of 10.x.x.x  around
20,000 computers that I may have to contact for some reason.. Its easy
for me to know there netbios name.. As its there login name.. However
there subnet is a whole different ballgame.. Im hoping it will clear up
after browse lists have propagated in a few days.. But if you have any
ideas let me know..

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Marco De Vitis [mailto:starless at supereva.it] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:03 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Re: Winpopup message to all user on a PDC


Il 01/07/2003, alle ore 14:19, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) ha scritto:

>        It it possible to send messages to all users logged in a PDC at
same
> time ?

I didn't find a ready-to-use program, so I use something like this
inside an executable script:

    for i in $(cat /path/clientlist.txt)
    do
      echo message_text | smbclient -M $i &
    done

clientlist.txt is an ASCII file containing a list of all NetBIOS names
of the PCs in the network, e.g.:

ACCOUNTING
JOHN
BILL_PC
SHARED
etc...

message_text is the text you want to send.

-- 
Ciao,
  Marco.

..."The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", Genesis 1974

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