Hi,
I've set up a small network. The server is a P166 running on Redhat 5.1
kernel 2.0.35-2. The rest of the machines are all Win95. The network is
running on Samba. I want to be able to send pop-up messages from the server
to individual users and from one user to another or even back to the server.
I used smbclient to try the above but ran into some problems:
1. I am using ISC DHCP to configure the Win95 client settings.
2. To be able to send the winpopup messages, the smbclient manpage tells me
to send messages in this form:
cat MESSAGEFILE|smbclient -M MACHINENAME
3. When I ran this for a certain machine I get the errors something like this:
cannot find /etc/codepage/codepage-nnn ---(nnn is some number)
cannot find /etc/lmhosts
(I'm sorry this is vague but I'm quoting from memory, the machine is
unavailable right now.)
4. I remedied this by running:
cat MESSAGEFILE|smbclient -M MACHINENAME -I IP_ADDRESS
This worked but I had to consult /etc/dhcpd.leases to find out IP_ADDRESS.
5. My opinion is that smbclient cannot find MACHINENAME ordinarily because
I have done dynamic configuration using DHCP, how can I get smbclient to
find MACHINENAME without having to explicitly give the IP_ADDRESS myself?
6. Even if this problem is solved it does not really solve the original
problem as I really want to send pop-up messages to certain users and not
to certain machines as there are less machines than users and users may be
on one machine at one session and on another at another time.
thanks in advance,
Ishaaq Chandy
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