Sending messages to other PC's

[.Markski]

OK, so, got the home PC's on a wireless network.

To save the old vocal chords and yelling up the stairs at people, is there a way I can pop a message up on their screen?

PC's run Win98SE, XP Pro and Win2K.

TIA.

[kanes]

Online messenger like MSN?

Windows has an inbuilt messaging system, aslong as it is turned on during startup (both the receiving computer and the broadcasting computer) then it will show up

[JamieBeeston]

net send pcname (or their ip) message

should work


where PC name is the Netbios name you gave their PC, or IP is the IP you have (or your DHCP Server has) assigned them.

or get MSN

[tuffer]

Netsend

[tuffer]

Snap

[.Markski]

Thanks.

And once again in English???

Janet and John as to what I need to type would be great!

[Muncher]

Start-> Run -> cmd



type: netsend 192.168.1.15 your tea is on the table getting cold.


The IP address being the IP address of the PC you want the message sent to, or the computer name.


Then press enter.

[.Markski]

"netsend is not recognised as an internal or external command"

Your tea is getting cold!

[puggit]

should be "net send ip-address message"

[slinky]

alternatively, have a look here...

It's a product we use in my office for net sending... a lot easier than dropping into a command prompt and messing around with command line stuff...

Personally, I'll use net send before lan message, but that's because I grew up on DOS and old habits die hard!!!!

slinky

[JamieBeeston]

.Markski said:

"netsend is not recognised as an internal or external command" Your tea is getting cold!

net <space> send

net send dadspc your pc is buggered!

[.Markski]

Thanks. My machine says it sent the message, but it hasn't turned up at the other machine yet.
I'll have a look at Netmsg too, nice to have a fiddle around with these things.

[plotloss]

net send [username] [message]

also works

[JamieBeeston]

plotloss said:

net send [username] [message] also works

How, given its entirly possible to have multiple usernames on the same network, unless your appending a servername to the Username, or wanting to broadcast it to most of the ppl on the network (Administrator for example)

In which case, you could simply just sent the message to the domain / workgroup.

[plotloss]

Dont know how but if I type in a username it works perfectly...

Oh and just for clarification, from XP Help

Microsoft said:

Syntax net send {name | * | /domain[:name] | /users} message Parameters name Specifies the user name, computer name, or messaging name to which you want to send the message. If the information that you supply contains spaces, use quotation marks around the text (for example, "Computer Name"). Long user names might cause problems when you use them as NetBIOS names. NetBIOS names are limited to 16 characters, and the sixteenth character is reserved. * Sends the message to all the names in your domain or workgroup.

>> Edited by plotloss on Wednesday 1st September 11:54