[KLUG Members] winpopup

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 at 11:07:58AM -0500, komal wrote:
> Hello

Greetings!

> Is there any winpopup like messagesing application available in Linux?

See smbclient(1):

       -M NetBIOS name
              This  options  allows you to send messages, using the
"WinPopup"
              protocol, to another computer. Once a connection is
established
              you then type your message, pressing ^D (control-D) to
end.

              If  the receiving computer is running WinPopup the user
will re-
              ceive the message and probably a beep. If they are  not
running
              WinPopup the message will be lost, and no error message
will oc-
              cur.

              The message is also automatically truncated if  the
message  is
              over 1600 bytes, as this is the limit of the protocol.

              One useful trick is to cat the message throughsmbclient.
For ex-
              ample:  cat mymessage.txt | smbclient -M  FRED   will
send  the
              message in the file mymessage.txt to the machine FRED.

              You may also find the -U and-I options useful, as they
allow you
              to control the FROM and TO parts of the message.

              See the message command parameter in the smb.conf(5) for
a  de-
              scription  of how to handle incoming WinPopup messages in
Samba.

              Note: Copy WinPopup into the startup group on your WfWg
PCs  if
              you want them to always be able to receive messages.


Hope this helps...

-- 
Phillip Hofmeister