'net send' to a Mac?

[Drakkon]

can you send a 'net send' command to a mac (OS x) or is there a program that allows this ability to msg a client and show a message on their screen?

 

[n0cmonkey]

net send probably won't work. What's running by default probably wouldn't know how to interpret it, but I'm not 100% positive about that. I don't have a handy Windows machine to test.

You could try talk or something, but chances are that daemon isn't running either.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Some nifty googling only turned up with utilities to net send frmo a Mac to Windows, not the other way around.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Some nifty googling only turned up with utilities to net send frmo a Mac to Windows, not the other way around.

That's easy to do with samba. I used to do it all the time.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Some nifty googling only turned up with utilities to net send frmo a Mac to Windows, not the other way around.

That's easy to do with samba. I used to do it all the time.

well shet, i don't know jack about Macs, so I thought it was cool.

 

[Nothinman]

You can setup Samba to process messages recieved from net send, but by default it doesn't do anything.

 

[Drakkon]

in other words in os x there is no default process running that can recieve a command sent to it over the network from a windows machine? I guess not...oh well...

and some wonder why macs never will take over the market

 

[Nothinman]

in other words in os x there is no default process running that can recieve a command sent to it over the network from a windows machine? I guess not...oh well...

Nope and that's a very good thing.

and some wonder why macs never will take over the market

If market penetration requires stupid defaults, I'd say Apple has made the better choice.