On 18/08/07, Don Russell <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an FC7 box running some basic things like e-mail etc. > > The LAN is basicaly made up of that machine and a handful of Windows > (2000 and XP) machines. > I am also anticipating adding an Apple Mac machine to the mix, as well > as a Linux laptop. > > I want an application on the FC7 box to send a "pop up" message to all > the other machines on the network. > > In researching "net send <bios-name> <text>" I discovered a program like > WinPopup is needed on the windows machines... further investigation into > that looks like it's old information, pertaining to Windows 3.1, 95 and > 98, explicitly NOT supported in Windows NT... and I'm assuming Windows > 2000/XP. > > The question is... how do I make my FC7 box "aware" of all the other > machines on the peer network so it knows who to send messages to? > > Is there some sort of broadcast I can send out like a "OK, sound > off...." and all recipients of that broadcast respond with a "OK, my > name is ..." (or just having the IP address would probably suffice) > > Then I can send the message to each device that replied... > > Anybody have any pointers/suggestions? > > Thank you Why not use Jabber ? In the company that I work for, we have our own internal Jabber server and all PCs ( windows, et.. ) are running some Jabber client so we can all communicate with each other. We have 2 offices on 2 states, and each office is about 3 or more floors of office building.
