On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:10, dhananjoy chowdhury wrote: > to create the message > smbclient -M <hostname> > <your message> > then Ctrl+D to send it Thanks guys, The problem with this is the recipient must be running win-popup. Now on Win2k and Win-XPlease boxes (using netsend) you can send the recipient a message that appears in the form of dialogue box that just appears, no win-popup required, I would like to abuse the feature from my Linux box. mmmm I wonder if netsend will run in wine! I'll get back to later Cheers -- Chadley - Linux Rocks ****************************************************************** Welcome to my world. This mail is yours to use. Enjoy the adventures of Linux *******************************************************************