[plug] Net Send to Windows 98 Machines

[Daniel Pearson]

Glad someone pointed that out, you *must* be running Winpopup on the windows 
95/98 machine in order for the message to be received.

That is why your message sent successfully Nima, but you never 
actually "received" anything on the machine :)

-Daniel

Quoting Ryan <ryan at is.as.geeky.as>:

> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 09:57, Nima Talebi wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > Anyone know a free commandline executable that can message Windows 9x
> > machines, like 'net send', with the additional feature that it actually
> > works?
> > 
> > Just to clear it up for anyonw who hasn't tried, net send to Win9x
> > machines - the command runs successfully:
> > 
> > C:\>net send 10.2.24.84 Good Morning.
> > The message was successfully sent to 10.2.24.84.
> > 
> > ...however it never actually makes it there.
> 
> And i forgot to mention (i typed it and then deleted it somehow) that
> you have to have 'winpopup' running on the 98 box as you probably
> already know.  2K+ already have a similar thing running as a service so
> don't need any extra help.
> 
> Ryan
> 
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