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Using Samba
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Using Samba

by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly
November 1999
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
413 pages
16h 7m
English
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WinPopup Messages

You can use the WinPopup tool (WINPOPUP.EXE ) in Windows to send messages to users, machines, or entire workgroups on the network. This tool is provided with Windows 95 OSR2 and comes standard with Windows 98. With either Windows 95 or 98, however, you need to be running WinPopup to receive and send WinPopup messages. With Windows NT, you can still receive messages without starting such a tool; they will automatically appear in a small dialog box on the screen when received. The WinPopup application is shown in Figure 8.1.

The WinPopup application

Figure 8-1. The WinPopup application

Samba has a single WinPopup messaging option, message command, as shown in Table 8.7.

Table 8-7. WinPopup Configuration Option

Option

Parameter

Function

Default

Scope

message command

string (fully-qualified pathname)

Sets a command to run on Unix when a WinPopup message is received.

None

Global

message command

Samba’s message command option sets the path to a program that will run on the server when a Windows popup message arrives at the server. The command will be executed using the guest account user. What to do with one of these is questionable since it’s probably for the Samba administrator, and Samba doesn’t know his or her name. If you know there’s a human using the console, the Samba team once suggested the following:

[global]
	message command = /bin/csh -c 'xedit %s; rm %s' &

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