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Title: Banners - popup windows
Post by: Marco Garza on October 08, 2002, 06:45:54 AM

Does anyone know if there is a piece of software for linux that will allow you to send a popup window or banner to anyone on a lan network.  want to be able to send to specific ip's or everyone on lan.  looking for a way to broadcast messages to employees about special events, mettings and such. any suggestions are appreciated.

Marco Garza

Title: Re: Banners - popup windows
Post by: Nathan Fowler on October 09, 2002, 01:08:45 AM

Are you referring to the "net send" functionality of Windows NT using the Windows Network Messenger Service?  They would have to be on a NT4/2000/XP machine to receive these messages, I don't believe 95/98/ME support the Network Messenger Service.  I tried to google some results for Samba sending network messages but I couldnt' find any.  The best I could find was an accouncement from 1999 concerning Samba's ability to handle network messages.

Title: Re: Banners - popup windows
Post by: Boris on October 14, 2002, 11:01:45 AM

On Windows9.x winpopup does this.