Net send messages

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Net send messages

Hiya all

We have a AD domain and some Tiger workstations joined to it via the Apple AD client which works fine.
To send popup messages to the windows boxes we use :
'net send domain message text'
and the user gets a popup window with the message text in.
I have found an app for Panther called 'MacXPop' which works using the smb client.
Does anyone know of way to achive the same on Tiger?

Thanks in advance.
Laurence.

Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Dec 16, 2005 8:56 AM

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Answer 1

Wade Peeler

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Dec 16, 2005 11:32 AM in response to Larry Bartrum

Have you tried that app in Tiger? Most applications work in both Panther and Tiger without modification.

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Answer 2

Dec 16, 2005 12:30 PM in response to Wade Peeler

Hiya

Yes I tried running it from the command line with the appropriate switches and it just came up with 'bus error'.

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Answer 3

Wade Peeler

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Dec 16, 2005 1:14 PM in response to Larry Bartrum

I googled around a little and found a few discussions of people with the same problem, but nobody had a solution. I can't find any app for Tiger that does the same thing. Sorry.

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Answer 4

Dec 20, 2005 6:17 AM in response to Wade Peeler

I have solved this myself

In the smb.conf added the line to the global section.

message command = /usr/local/bin/netmsg "`cat %s`" %f &

NB. make sure the "guest account =" bit has a valid account, "unknown" doesn't seem to work...

The following is the above file:

#!/bin/sh
txt=$1
sdr=$2
osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\"" -e "activate" -e "set msg to \"${txt}\"" -e "display alert \"This is a message from ${sdr}\" message msg as warning" -e "end tell"

I'm no shell or applescript wizard so there may be another way of doing the same thing.

Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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