Re: How to send popup message?

I see it being a little bit of a security issue, if you are accepting these messages from the internet. I know you can use

smbclient -M <hostname>

to send a message from a linux to windows machine on the same lan. I don't know if you could get it to work over the internet, or even if you can, what kind of problems it may cause, but you can try it out.

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Re: Re: How to send popup message? by ralijani (Acolyte) on Jun 28, 2003 at 13:40 UTC
hi dear thanks for your reply but when i run smbclient -M dns or smclient 192.168.10.2 it : root@SEPEHR root# smbclient -M dns added interface ip=192.168.10.2 bcast=192.168.10.255 mask=255.255.255.0 Cannot resolve name dns#0x3 and with ip address again i get this error. i am using linux redhat 9.0 and smb is started but not configured. is it necessary to configure it? and what is my problem? Best Regurd. my email address: ralijani@yahoo.com	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: How to send popup message? by tcf22 (Priest) on Jun 28, 2003 at 17:00 UTC
smbclient -M requires a NETBIOS name. If your windows machines aren't running netbios, then this won't work. There is a smbclient -I, which lets you send to an IP, which may be more what you want but I can't get it to work. Maybe you'll have better luck. It doesn't need much configuring. You may have to edit smb.conf to change your WORKGROUP and NETBIOS name.	[reply]