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communicate to win9x clients

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by balgaze

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Net send will not communicate to win9x clients. Is there a utility or way to find a machine location if I know its ip address/DNS information and its Netbios/WINS name? I need to find and communicate with two 9x clients from 2000 server and all I know is their ip and netbios information.

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by balgaze

What about windows 98 clients? 90% of clients are win98 and there is no winpopup.

by balgaze

Yeah but the exe has to be running to get messages sent. Isn't there any other method?

by d_v ant

Take a look at this article (from the front page today....)

It tells how you can telnet into the PCs. once there, you can turn on Winpopup and then send a message. Depending on what you need to do on the PC, this may allow you to do it remotely.

Hope this helps....

by joseph moore

For WINPOPUP to work, it has to be running on the Win9x client. Like the other answers have mentioned, you need this to run to get popup boxes on Win9x.
An idea to try is to add WINPOPUP.EXE to the Run section in the Registry, so it starts automatically.
Open Regedit and go to:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Add an entry in there for Winpopup, and point Value Data to the full directory path to winpopup.exe.
You could then use MSCONFIG to see if it is properly selected in the Startup tab.

hope this helps

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