Re: Sending System Messages
Don't know about Windows clients, but wall will do it for anyone connected to Unix... man wall Peter At 12:26 PM 7/22/2003 -0400, you wrote: Greetings, Using windows based machines, you can send a System Broadcast Message to all windows machines in the network. I was wondering if there is a tool for FreeBSD that can do similar, sending to all windows clients. Regards, Justin P. Michel -- J Continuum ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sending System Messages
-Original Message- From: Peter Elsner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:44 PM To: Justin P. Michel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sending System Messages Don't know about Windows clients, but wall will do it for anyone connected to Unix... man wall 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. 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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
