Is there a way for me to send a message from my comp to my friend's comp through CMD?

[KhoiFather]

Like if you have a home network, you can go into RUN, then type CMD, then do that Net Send blah blah to send a message to another computer on the same network. Well I'm wondering if I can send a message like that through Command to my friend's computer? So like pretend, he's not on AIM for me to talk to, I can do that to type him to get on AIM.

 

[Paulson]

you can do netsend <insert ip addy here> and then type the message if I recall correctly. The other person will have to have windows 2000 or winxp in order for it to work though.

 

[wfbberzerker]

its net send (two words)

btw, if it's only you two on the network, or you want to send a message to all the people on teh network do:
net send * {msg}

 

[SoylentGreen]

Yes it's based on netbios and not routable.

 

[KhoiFather]

darn that sucks, so I guess it wont work then.