[plug] Net Send to Windows 98 Machines

[Nima Talebi]

Thanks to everyone as always for being enthusiastic in helping :)

The problem I have with winpopup is that people (stupid people) close
it, and I have to rely on them to not close it in order to send
messages.

Anyone?

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:26, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> 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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