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Net /send and WIN98 (Sending Messages)

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by shafique.awan

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We are using Windows 2000 Advanced server and a mix of Win 9X and Win 2K workstations. Previously we had Netware Server and one good feature we had was the ability to send a message to all the workstations or selected users (by login name or groups). This ability helped us in asking them to shutdown a certain applicaton or notify them of the server going down etc.

Since we shifted to Win 2K we have lost this ability. Ofcourse "Net /send" can be used but messages are only sent to Win 2K machines and are ignored by Win 9X machines.

I would appreciate if someone could point to a low overhead, preferrably free, utility which is transaparent to the user and solves the problem.

Thanks

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by timthetoolman

Windows 98 does provide this functionality - but not by default. You need to enable "WinPopup" on the Windows98 machines.

This is a component that must be added and then the application needs to be started for it to hear the messages.

You could put it into the startup of the Win98 machines.

See...

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/winpopup.htm

(Remove spaces in the above URL)

For more information on how this is done.

If you need to SEND popup messages from a Win98 machine, then you can download and use a utility called netsend by Ariolic

http://www.ariolic.com/netsend/

(Again remove spaces from above URL)

It requires a license (although its inexpensive) and has a 30day trial period.

Cheers,
Tim.

by shafique.awan

Thankyou for your suggestions. I am still looking for a free utility. Even though one of the solutions works fine but I need to avoid the hassles for spending 800 dollars for my network. I just need the functinality of being able to send a message to the users' machine. Winpopup also does the trick but what if the user closes it?

Please let me know if there is a chance of using a freeware of some sort.

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