Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] how to send messages to Macs?
From: Russell Hoffman (russ@whiterose.net)
Date: Tue May 04 1999 - 13:12:42 EDT
Osma writes:
> SMB/Samba has a feature which allows sending Windows machines on the
> network a message that will appear as a popup window on the machine
> (NET /SEND or smbclient -M). This is handy if you need to alert
> Windows users of a file server going down, for instance (send a
> message to every host listed by smbstatus).
When I was an undergrad at CMU (too many years ago!), we had a program
called "Broadcast" that did exactly what you are looking for. Last I
checked, it is still available, htough I'm not sure where to get it or
what the prerequisites are. Might try looking at CMU's ftp server,
something like ftp.cs.cmu.edu.
Russ Hoffman
russ(a)whiterose.net
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