Hi list, sending popup messages to Windoze machines is not a problem (smbclient works just great) but when a Windoze User wants/needs to contact me using such tool (WinPopup) they just fail because, AFAIK, there's no way to receive and show them on Linux. I already tried LinPopup and popper: the former can send messages but it doesn't receive them, and the latter crashes just after starting (I'm using the popper which comes on the SuSE 9.0 Pro CDs) Any other suggestions are welcomed! Martin
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11.52, Martin Mielke wrote:
Hi list,
sending popup messages to Windoze machines is not a problem (smbclient works just great) but when a Windoze User wants/needs to contact me using such tool (WinPopup) they just fail because, AFAIK, there's no way to receive and show them on Linux.
I already tried LinPopup and popper: the former can send messages but it doesn't receive them, and the latter crashes just after starting (I'm using the popper which comes on the SuSE 9.0 Pro CDs)
Any other suggestions are welcomed!
Well, it says in the info of the popper rpm that "Popper can only be used for sending, not receiving messages" http://www.henschelsoft.de/kpopup_en.html Is perhaps an option. No windows machines around here, so I can't test if it actually works though. But that's what a quick google/freshmeat search produced
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Hi again, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Linpopup works. Which version did you try? I have it running here and at work, version 2.3 (also 1.2 worked). Did you add the appropriate message command to smb.conf? It will even receive messages when not running (being a GUI app, it is not always running.). On mine, though, the message needs to be sent to the machine name not the user name. HTH.
"README files are for cowards... execute!" :-)) Thanks for the hint - my problem was related to the message_command in Samba... BTW - do I need to run the Samba Server for LinPopUp to work?? I got LinPopUp 1.2 working (where did you get version 2.3??). Martin
On 03/10/2004 10:32 PM, Martin Mielke wrote:
BTW - do I need to run the Samba Server for LinPopUp to work??
Yes, because messaging is a samba service.
I got LinPopUp 1.2 working (where did you get version 2.3??).
Sourceforge IIRC. I built it with checkinstall. It is the gtk2 version. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
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Anders Johansson
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Martin Mielke