[dice]

Hi

Is it possible to send messages to windows users from 10.3.3. It is over my college network. I basically want to be able to chat with them. Is there something like "net send" for the mac?

thanks

[gorickey]

Why not use a chat client like AIM (iChat) or something?

[dice]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Why not use a chat client like AIM (iChat) or something?

would that work even if all IM ports are blocked (silly uni ) Can it work just on a local ethernet without access to the big bad world??

[Millennium]

Be very careful about using Windows Messenger on your local uni network. Clients exist for the Mac, but I will not list them here. The problem with Windows Messenger (not to be confused with MSN Messenger) is that many people turn this off nowadays, because it's so laughably insecure that it's become a new method of spamming people.

Your best bet, if you want intra-campus IM, would be to set up a Jabber server and spread the word around. Failing that, lobby your network admins to unblock IM ports.

[bartman00]

I used to work at a large company and was friends with the interns. The interns learned about net send. They'd send each other funny messages. One day John wanted to see what happened if you used a wild card for the uers name *. When he hit enter, "Bens G@Y" poped up on hunders of computer screens!

Later that day we started recieving a lot of support tickets from the call center reguarding the Bens G@Y virus..... No one said a word!

Bart

[SMacTech]

Originally posted by dice:
would that work even if all IM ports are blocked (silly uni ) Can it work just on a local ethernet without access to the big bad world??

Can't AIM be setup to use port 80 or other?

[SYN]

you can send messages with the Command line smbclient tool by typing:

smbclient -M PCNAME

sending and receiving is possible with a GUI with the "popup" application that used to come bundled with SSCT.

[thePurpleGiant]

Originally posted by bartman00:
Later that day we started recieving a lot of support tickets from the call center reguarding the Bens G@Y virus..... No one said a word!

[voodoo]

Originally posted by SMacTech:
Can't AIM be setup to use port 80 or other?

Yes.

[dice]

Originally posted by SMacTech:
Can't AIM be setup to use port 80 or other?

really, I'll look into it. Thanks.

[ginoledesma]

Older computers like Windows 95/98/ME have a program called winpopup that can be used to send messages to other programs using that program. They're disabled by default, so you'll need to run them to be able to send/receive messages. In Windows 2000 (I forget about NT4), the computers can receive messages by default, but the winpopup graphical utilitiy is no longer there. You can send messages by typing "net send <computer_name> <msg>" in DOS (or Start > Run...) and the other computer should also be able to receive it. It can get pretty annoying, however, as these messages are shown through dialog boxes on the recepient's computer (accompanied by the ding! sound). As someone mentioned earlier, Windows XP, using the Windows Messenger service, may or may not have it disabled. The sender will not necessarily be informed if the message was delivered or not.

Your Mac (running Mac OS X) can send messages to them using the smbclient application mentioned above (smbclient -M //service_name -I ip.address message -- you can put anything in service_name if you know the IP Address, which can be optional if you know the actual service_name]). For Jaguar, if you use Samba Sharing Package, you can use the accompanying Popup application that will receive messages sent to you to be displayed on your screen. A commercial application you may want to consider is MacPopup, made by QuickPopup.

Jabber is a free instant messaging application you could try, but you'll need someone to setup a server within your network and ask each and every client to connect to it.