[Samba] ShowMessage (second attempt)

[Dan Shadix]

Googling for winpopup linux gives at least two possibilities, LinPopUp and Kpopup.  You'll have to have winpopup running on Win9x, and (I believe) the messenger service on NT4, 2K, XP.



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "A.J.Dawson" <A.J.Dawson at Bradford.ac.uk>
Date:  Wed, 21 May 2003 09:07:31 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

>I could also *really* do to use this feature now and again!
>
>Regards
>
>Dr. Andy Dawson
>A.J.Dawson at Bradford.ac.uk
>http://www.mossie.org
>http://www.museum-explorer.org.uk
>
> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
>
>
>On Tue, 20 May 2003, Nicholas Metsovon wrote:
>
>> Surely someone out there knows how to notify their
>> Windows users that access to their samba server is
>> going to be terminated....
>>
>> Any help will be *greatly* appreciated.
>>
>> ------ Original Message -------
>> I would like to shut down samba before I begin my
>> backup routine.  Before I do this, I would like to
>> send a message to the users who are logged in on their
>> Windows machines, asking them to log out.  I would
>> prefer this to be like a ShowMessage dialog box, if
>> possible.
>>
>> Could anyone please tell me how I can do this?  A
>> Redhat tech support specialist told me he thinks this
>> is possible through samba or smb-client.
>>
>>
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