Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:00:50 -0400 From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> To: "Peter Elsner" <peter@servplex.com>, "Justin P. Michel" <jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Sending System Messages Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBCF8@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Elsner [mailto:peter@servplex.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:44 PM > To: Justin P. Michel > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Sending System Messages >=20 >=20 > Don't know about Windows clients, but wall will do it for=20 > anyone connected=20 > to Unix... >=20 > man wall >=20 > Peter Samba can certainly send popup messages to any machine that supports = NetBIOS messages. We do something along these lines by first querying an = IP for its netbios name and messenger service status with nmblookup = (nmblookup -A ip_address) and then sending a message if we know the = client supports it (smbclient -I ip_address -M NAME -UBig\ Brother\ Is\ = Watching). I have never tried to send a message to an entire domain, although it = would seem that using the workgroup or domain name might work.=20 Not knowing how it actually works, I would guess Microsoft does not do = this. I only know how to send mass messages like this through Server = Manager, which also details who all is connected to a particular server. = I think MS probably just takes this list and sends a separate message to = each connected host. -Will
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