Alternative to netsend

[Anakha56]

Hello,

As the titles says I am looking for something to use instead of netsend or msg (looks like it only does on a per username basis msg). It has to be freeware.

So what can someone recommend?

*edit - Should add that it needs to broadcast WinXP&Vista.

[UrBaN]

Apparently the net send function is present and working under XP - it is just disable by default.

http://www.technipages.com/xp-sp2-enabl ... mands.html

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... x?mfr=true

[Anakha56]

We have it disabled because it is a security risk from what I understand. Hence the need for an alternative.

[UrBaN]

Erm...how would the alternative not be a security risk?

http://www.lantalk.net/

http://www.wegabyte.com/winpopup/

[Anthro]

OK, this might sound like a weird alternative. But why not put up a internal 'chat' / communications server ?
We use it at work, and you can Broadcast messages to each user, or to a group as announcement popups.
Spark (IgniteRealtime.com) -
http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp

[DeathStrike]

http://www.outlookmessenger.com/OM/index.asp

What about this. used it at old company.

[SBSP]

We run a process every 3 hours or so to update transactions in our ERP system.
But in order to do so people has to close screens from the ERP system other wise the update process fails.

when i started here we used to use net send, not only is it a security risk its also very unreliable as only half the people
would get the message, even with netsend service enabled and XP firewalls off.

So instead i made a simple application using VB6 with 3 sides.

Client, server and Message sender.
All clients connect to the server on windows startup, then the message creator then send a message to the server and the
server application distributes the message to everyone.

Its been working for more than 3 years and it works pretty well.
If you know a bit of VB i can give you the source code.
If you want the exe's i need sometime to mod it so its a bit more generic as its very custom.

The popup message is full screen 'Always on top' with a company logo on it with a standard message.
Let me know.

[rustypup]

Client, server and Message sender.

on an internal wan, connect everyone to a single multicast socket and there's no need for server or sender... something we use here quite often, (mostly to keep an eye on automated processes).

encryption is still a requirement, though..

[SBSP]

Client, server and Message sender.

on an internal wan, connect everyone to a single multicast socket and there's no need for server or sender... something we use here quite often, (mostly to keep an eye on automated processes).

encryption is still a requirement, though..

its winsock & who said its a WAN ? its most probably a LAN which loads instances of the ocx control on each connection into memory and reuses a loaded control when its state is not used.


Because the message client is running with no ui and not cluttering the users desktop and neither nagging the user with an interface.. and the message sender dont want to see their own message.
But the client is basically the message sender, just modified.

I dont think winsock does muticasting, if it does my bad, I'm no programmer. So performance , ways of doing things in application development is not second nature to me, neither does it interest me, I'm more interested in solutions, and if i cant find one on the net i make one