[Samba] Pop-up messages to domain members?

[Andrew Gaffney]

I wrote a small script for doing this very thing and posted it here about a month or two back:

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $msg = shift;
open PIPE, "smbstatus |";
foreach $line (<PIPE>) {
   if($line =~ /\d+\s+(\S+)\s+\S+\s+(\S+)\s+\((.+)\)/) {
     system "echo '$msg' | smbclient -M $2 -I $3";
   }
}

Michael Brown wrote:
> I don't believe you can send a message to a whole domain using smbclient (please someone correct me if I'm wrong), I think you will have to do it one at a time, or write a script:
> 
> $ smbclient -M host 
> <then will prompt for message>
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Michael Brown
> 
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:07:19 +0100
> "Anders Norrbring" <anders at norrbring.biz> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Is it possible to send a pop-up message to all connected Windows stations in a
>>>whole domain via one command, or is it necessary to send one message per
>>>command to each station?  It must be a command line utility since X isn't
>>>running on the server.
>>>
>>>
>>>Anders Norrbring
> 

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Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
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