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

[Peter Oram]

Changing the line makes no difference to what currently occurs.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Nielsen [mailto:adam.nielsen at uq.edu.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2006 11:33 AM
To: Peter Oram
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Sending popup message via smbclient to w2k and winxp
machines


> 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.