[Samba] Sending popup message via smbclient to w2k and winxp machines

Adam Nielsen adam.nielsen at uq.edu.au
Wed Jun 7 01:32:47 GMT 2006


> MESSAGE="$WINNAME, your job $_3GJOB\nhas successfully completed"
> echo "$MESSAGE" | /path/to/smbclient -M trout > /dev/null 2>&1
> echo "$MESSAGE\n/path/to/smbclient -M trout >> logfile.txt
> 
> Why isn't the message being sent from within the script? 

Is it a redirect issue?  What happens if you change the line to:

(echo "$MESSAGE" | /path/to/smbclient -M trout) > /dev/null 2>&1

Cheers,
Adam.


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