Netsend?

[JoeFahey]

A kid in a computer class at our tech center found of the ip address of our High School's network. He then send little messages to all the computers at the school. I think the command to do this is netsend. But Im not sure. They arrive at the destination in the little, what I like to call them, "ok" boxes. How I thought you did this was to make a .bat file that says "netsend [ip address] [message]". Then open the file and it sends the messages. However, I tried this here at home to see if it would send to the other computer in my house, and it dodn't work. What am I doing wrong? Is my way of doing it completely wrong?

 

[creedog]

RTFM man!


http://www.cezeo.com/tips-and-tricks/net-send-command/

 

[mugs]

it's net send, not netsend

 

[FoBoT]

net is a command/.exe , send is a subcommand or command line parameter of net/net.exe

others are net view , net use , net start , net stop , etc etc

 

[TheNinja]

great....teach another 14 year old the awesome "net send" command so he can attempt to wreak havoc on his school network and impress his buddies.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
great....teach another 14 year old the awesome "net send" command so he can attempt to wreak havoc on his school network and impress his buddies.

qft..

 

[chambersc]

i did this once and get written up. very much big trouble. the command was "net send domain <msg>" my message was "yo grandpappies fake leg."

 

[jtusa]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
great....teach another 14 year old the awesome "net send" command so he can attempt to wreak havoc on his school network and impress his buddies.

No, don't give away all the l337 hacks!!!

 

[Quasmo]

at home you have to make sure the messenger service is enabled. It is disabled by default in WindowsXP SP2.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
great....teach another 14 year old the awesome "net send" command so he can attempt to wreak havoc on his school network and impress his buddies.

😀

Then he gets suspended for h4x0ring the school computers and whines about it on ATOT. 😉

 

[BrokenVisage]

Remember kiddies, net stat != netstat

 

[JoeFahey]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
at home you have to make sure the messenger service is enabled. It is disabled by default in WindowsXP SP2.

How do I enable it?

And Im not going to do this at school anyways...it pissed me and everyone else off at the school when the kid did it.....

 

[JoeFahey]

In Bios?

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: JoeFahey1
In Bios?

No, it has to be enable on each client machine to receive the message.

It's in the Services window (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services).