Network-Wide/single client alerts

[cjc343]

I have been looking for a way to contact people via a wireless intranet connection. This would be simple if it were an all Mac network, unfortunately, it isn't.

I searched the internet, but got no results for the Macintosh OS. If anyone knows of a utility with which I can do this, please tell me.

Thanks!

 

[varmit]

using netsend

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031204021659307

it only gives the mac person a way to contact the windows person. Only the macs have the rendezvous thing that doesn't need a server.

 

[cjc343]

hmm...

I get 2 different errors. One for Mac, and one for Windoze.

Here is what I get: (Edited to protect computer)

ComputerName:~ UserName$ smbclient -M *.*.*.5
session request failed
ComputerName:~ UserName$ smbclient -M *.*.*.2
message start: ERRSRV - ERRmsgoff
ComputerName:~ UserName$

The IP ending in .5 is the Windoze computer,

The IP ending in .2 is the Mac.


I stripped all protection (firewalls etc...) from all 3 computers (sender and 2 receivers) but I still got the same message. I also had file sharing + windows file sharing on on both the Macs and the C dir shared on the Windoze.

 

[varmit]

your problem

smbclient -M NETBIOSNAME -U FROMNAME

netbiosname is not the ip address, and you have to turn on the ability to get netsends on the pcs. And you might need to give a from address. Read the link, sometimes you need to use the user name, for people using 2000, and not the netbiosname. Its not really a solution, only a desparate idea.