On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:21:31AM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: > I've made a little script called net_send, to keep the command syntax Which doesn't work like you told. > #!/bin/sh > echo $2 | smbclient -M $1 > # net_sent MACHINE What about Pizza? $0=net_sent $1=MACHINE $2=What $3=about .. So you have use quotes with the message. $ net_sent MACHINE "What about Beer?" -- Jani Ollikainen http://iki.fi/bestis/