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Thread ID: 98849 2009-04-10 00:31:00 Is there a program to page others on the network ? hotkiwi (6379) Press F1
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763699 2009-04-10 00:31:00 Friends,
We have a home wireless network and I would like to have a little program to let the kids elsewhere in the house know that it is time for them to stop chatting/facebooking/twittering. is there a little program out there that will allow me to do this? After all, as dad, I see myself as the ADMINISTRATOR of my network, haha.
Thanks
Johan
hotkiwi (6379)
763700 2009-04-10 00:54:00 look up on google, net send or for 9x users winpopup both come with windows (tcp/ip stack) in any case, you should be able to send to the entire workgroup if all the computers you have are set to the same workgroup (mshome, workgroup or similar) williamF (115)
763701 2009-04-10 00:56:00 Easy-within windows, its called "net send"

Go net send /? in cmd to check for more syntaxes/parameters
Blam (54)
763702 2009-04-10 01:03:00 There is also winchat by the loooks of it (for XP)

Type it under start/run. But some sites say you have to put Network dde, and network dde ddsm on auto, for it to work. Both are disabled

BUT some sites also say this can be a security risk, if you enable the above services
Speedy Gonzales (78)
763703 2009-04-10 01:08:00 And Vista doesn't have net send, so you may have to use this if you have any Vista computers:

www.lantalk.net
Blam (54)
763704 2009-04-10 01:10:00 C:\Documents and Settings\william>net send /?
The syntax of this command is:


NET SEND
{name | * | /DOMAIN[:name] | /USERS} message

name being the name or ip address of the computer your sending to, try the broadcast ip address x.x.x.255 or 0
williamF (115)
763705 2009-04-10 01:21:00 I think this is the same sort of software Blam linked - Fomine netsend (www.fomine.com) - its free, works with All windows versions - Got it on all our PC's here.

Often if out in the workshop I get a message from the Mrs ---Get your arse in here - 5 minutes and the dog gets your dinner --- :eek:

Edited: make sure you get Netsend - its free the others are only trials - Direct Download link (www.fomine.com)
wainuitech (129)
763706 2009-04-10 01:22:00 I think this is the same sort of software Blam linked - Fomie netsend (www.fomine.com) - its free, works with All windows versions - Got it on all our PC's here.

Often if out in the workshop I get a message from the Mrs ---Get your arse in here - 5 minutes and the dog gets your dinner --- :eek:

That ones got a GUI!

Nice:thumbs:
Blam (54)
763707 2009-04-10 01:30:00 Even works in Windows 7 Heres a test message I sent (www.imagef1.net.nz) - so you can tell the kids to get off when you want. Enforcing it may be different :xmouth: wainuitech (129)
763708 2009-04-10 01:46:00 Definetly going to try that out, thanks WT:) Blam (54)
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