Sending "pop up" messages to peer machines

Don Russell fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com
Sun Aug 19 01:39:23 UTC 2007


Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:
> On 18/08/07, Don Russell <fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have an FC7 box running some basic things like e-mail etc.
>>
>> The LAN is basicaly made up of that machine and a handful of Windows
>> (2000 and XP) machines.
>> I am also anticipating adding an Apple Mac machine to the mix, as well
>> as a Linux laptop.
>>
>> I want an application on the FC7 box to send a "pop up" message to all
>> the other machines on the network.
>>
>> In researching "net send <bios-name> <text>" I discovered a program like
>> WinPopup is needed on the windows machines... further investigation into
>> that looks like it's old information, pertaining to Windows 3.1, 95 and
>> 98, explicitly NOT supported in Windows NT... and I'm assuming Windows
>> 2000/XP.
>>
>> The question is... how do I make my FC7 box "aware" of all the other
>> machines on the peer network so it knows who to send messages to?
>>
>> Is there some sort of broadcast I can send out like a "OK, sound
>> off...." and all recipients of that broadcast respond with a "OK, my
>> name is ..." (or just having the IP address would probably suffice)
>>
>> Then I can send the message to each device that replied...
>>
>> Anybody have any pointers/suggestions?
>>
>> Thank you
>>     
>
> Why not use Jabber ? In the company that I work for, we have our own
> internal Jabber server and all PCs ( windows, et.. ) are running some
> Jabber client so we can all communicate with each other. We have 2
> offices on 2 states, and each office is about 3 or more floors of
> office building.
>   

Jabber looks interesting..... I just "yum install ejabberd" and will 
have a look at how to "make it go" over the next few days....

Thanks




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