how to netsend....

[dukebound85]

ok heres the story

im at a coffee shop
there are cute girls
said girls are on macs


now i could be conventional and walk up and say "hey whats up"

but no, i wanna be geeky and figure out a way to "netsend" them a message haha

maybe a bad idea but still, the geek within wants to know haha

 

[sammich]

Dunno if there is a OS X equiv, but you could put something in their 'drop box'

 

[calderone]

Guess it isn't in the stars Casanova.

You can do a netsend to a Windows machine:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031204021659307

There is no way to do this on a Mac without having access to open it up. For example turning on ssh, you then ssh in, and use osascript to send "display dialog" (applescript) to the target machine.

 

[dukebound85]

Dunno if there is a OS X equiv, but you could but something in their 'drop box'

haha a pleasnat surprise

Guess it isn't in the stars Casanova.

You can do a netsend to a Windows machine:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031204021659307

There is no way to do this on a Mac without having access to open it up. For example turning on ssh, you then ssh in, and use osascript to send "display dialog" (applescript) to the target machine.

buuuuummer lol

 

[CJS7070]

A bit late here, but...

You can only netsend on a Windows machine, and that will only work if the computers are on the same domain. Even then, unless you know their exact hostnames, you can only send a message to all machines on the domain.

 

[steve2112]

Netsend wouldn't work on newer versions of Windows, anyway. It relied on the Messenger service, which was disabled by default after XP SP2. I think the command isn't even in Vista, though there is a msg command in some versions. There used to be a similar command in Solaris. I remember sending netsend type messages to friends in the computer labs in college while we were logged into our Unix accounts.