winpopup in linux

[klussier at comcast.net]

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>
> Christopher Chisholm <christopher.chisholm at syamsoftware.com> writes:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've been messing around with smbclient -M to send winpopup messages
> > to a windows system.  What i'm wondering is how i can go about
> > receiving and somehow displaying a received message in linux, which
> > would be coming from either a windows box or another linux one.
> 
> The short answer is: You can't.
> 
> Linux/UNIX isn't like Windows :)
> 

This isn't exactly true. You can use LinPopUp. In order to receive popup messages, you need to 1) be running Samba and 2) add a line to your smb.conf that looks something like this:

 message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &

I don't know how to send a message from windoze, though, sorry..... 

HTH,
Kenny