One way messaging

[faza]

Does anyone know of a piece of freeware that i could use to broadcast a message to all network users.

[webman]

Provided your clients have the Messenger service running and not firewalled, you can use windows' built-in net send command:

net send /domain:mydomain Logoff now or forever lose your work.

Would send the message to all users loggged in to the domain 'mydomain'.

[faza]

Can the recipients then reply?

[localzuk]

No, unless they use net send - which you most certainly don't want in a school

Is this for staff or pupil use?

[faza]

for staff, whern they recieve a message messenger will pop up wont they have the facility to reply to the message? What program do we use to recieve the messages?

[plexer]

The messenger service just provides the user a pop up containing your message and the option to close it by clicking ok.

Don't confuse the inbuilt messenger service with msn messenger.

It's completely different.

Ben

[faza]

All sorted thanks for all your help.