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On XP, I used to communicate through my network for fun via netsend.
I've googled, and apparently msg.exe replaced it in vista?
What about Win7?
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Hi Shankopotamus,
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Windows 7 does not support msg.exe and net send commands to send messages over network.
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So let me get this straight -- here are our 20 plus computers in our office, all connected on a NETWORK, all on the same WorkGroup and all running the same OS (Win7), and there is no built-in or even a 3rd party app to allow those 20+ people to swap messages back and forth instantly across the network without having to go to an outside system. A manager of the network can't send out a simple, "I've got to take the printer off line for about a half and hour to dig out a paper jam." Seems so intuitive that an IM as part of the closed network should be a natural that it should work without any connection to the internet for someone else's IM app.
When we were running Novell, there was a third party software that had a little button sitting at the bottom of the screen...ALWAYS there. Click it and a popup would show you who was at their computers and you with a few click send a message to one or all and they could instantly respond. You could silence it if you were in the middle of something, but it would show you a message had come in and you could open it to find it later. Again, it seems to me this is why you HAVE a network with wires connecting all the computers together. The idea that there is no simple way to talk to one another over this network and that such an ability isn't the most basic function of every OS that can be peer-to-peered seems absurd to me.
Oh and yea, the program that ran on Novell was OnCall. Anyone every heard of it?
Weird. I give up. We only have one domain, all the machines are on it.
Think I'll log on to 2 machines and message myself - see if it's a user thing or a PC thing...
Hi!
When I did it worked fine. I recommend you that every PC is in the same domain and I sure the messages will be sended and received.
Good luck my friend!
Starting to get beyond my competence level here (not difficult), but the PC firewalls seem to be turned off... maybe because we're behind a router or something? or there's a bigger one further down the line...
