From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 11:50:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16533 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA (mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA [130.113.20.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16512 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:50:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from strohsr@mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA) Received: from localhost (strohsr@localhost) by mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA09173; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:50:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:50:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Ralph Strohschein To: "Susan R. O'Brien" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Issuing the Windows NT "net" command from FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <35D086FC.5B138081@mss.lucent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Susan R. O'Brien wrote: > I would like to use the Windows NT "net send" command to popup a dialog > box on any user's terminal on the network. > > Is there a comparable command in FreeBSD? If not, is there an easy way > I can issue this command from a C program? It would be nice if I didn't > have to use sockets. > > Thanks for any help anyone can give me. I'm relatively new to FreeBSD. > > Sue O'Brien > srobrien@lucent.com > If you want to receive a winpopup message from an NT box on your FreeBSD box, I can't help you. If you want to send a popup message from your FreeBSD box to any NT box, check out smbclient, which is part of the Samba package. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message