Windows Messenger

project vegas · February 27th, 2006, 10:18 PM

hello guys im looking for a command in the prompt that will allow me to send messages to all users on my network im brain dead right now and cant remeber how to do it

thanks in advance

-Vegas

**GroundZero3** · February 27th, 2006, 10:33 PM

are they all running win2k or xp?

look into the netsend command

http://www.lantalk.net/net-send-command/

project vegas · February 27th, 2006, 10:34 PM

winxp i know its out there somewhere system admins usually use it to tell users that servers are down or something like that

project vegas · February 27th, 2006, 10:36 PM

thanks Zero i think thats it

johnnyis42 · February 28th, 2006, 03:06 AM

make sure all computers have the "messenger service" turned on for this to work. xpsp2 sets the service to disabled by default, and i beleive xpsp1 did as well.