[Nottingham] Progress... and anyone know a cross-OS lan chat system?

[Dan Mackdermott]

Hi David,

On Thu, 27 May 2004, David Aldred wrote:
> Now for this time's request:  does anyone know whether there's a way of 
> sending a message from a Linux machine to an XP one via the LAN?  The idea 
> would be that if the laptop is being used in another part of the house, 
> whoever's using it could get a note to pop up on the main machine in the XP 
> network asking whoever's using it to turn on the printer, or kick the 
> Internet dial-up, or whatever.  Just something it would be nice to have...

You could potentially use the smbclient command with the '-M' which allows 
you to send popup mssage to the client in question.

Cheers,

Dan

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