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.

[techman]

I have sent a message using Net Send but it has not appeared on any clients.

 

How can I check that it enabled on the LAN?

 

Thanks,

 

techman

[localzuk]

It won't be enabled - Microsoft disabled it by default from XP SP2 (I think), and removed it entirely in Windows Vista and 7 as far as I know.

[techman]

Thanks.

 

I am looking for a way to send a message in a pop-up to all clients on the LAN. One-way messaging only.

 

Majority of clients are Windows XP.

[Mako]

Net Send via the messenger service is probably the easiest in Windows XP.

 

If it's disabled, you can enable it via Group Policy: Computer configuration\windows settings\security settings\system services\Messenger and set it to enable.

 

Once it's on, use the command detailed in a post above to cause a pop-up on client machines.