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My Network Places

Asked by: shekari04

My company has a few domains with computers running on Win98 and W2K. When I click on Microsoft Windows Network in the Entire Network, all the company's domains will be shown on the screen. After double clicking on a particular domain, all the computers that is switched on under that domain will be shown on the screen right.

My question is, is there a way for a domain administrator to send a pop-up message or something along that line to a particular system? The reason I'm asking is because my company has a standard in the naming of machines e.g. SYSxxxx but there are some machines with SYSxxx. I need to know the location of these so-called wrongly named machines so that I can change them.

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2002-12-16 at 00:54:28ID20427168
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Answers

 

by: Drizzt420Posted on 2002-12-16 at 05:02:46ID: 7588825

If you have a windows2k server it is pretty easy. I am not in front of my server now, but I think I can get you to the exact place:

Right click on my computer and choose Manage,
in the computer management MMC choose Actions, in the submenu, I believe under "All Tasks", is a "send console  message"

From here you can send a message to any computer you wish

 

by: dragon-itPosted on 2002-12-16 at 05:29:51ID: 7588952

You need to run WinPopUp on a Win9x machine for them to be able to run/recevie messages.  You could start this from a login script.

You could check in the login script for a computer name starting SYSxxx and log the username to a file.  You can use PUTINENV.EXE to get the user name & computer name etc. then use echo %machinename% - %username% %date >> \\servera\logfiles\%machinenam%.txt or something.

Also NBTSTAT -a computername will give name of who is logged in so that you can see who they are and then phone them or whatever.  A PING will of course give you the Ip address which help track it down to a particular subnet.

You can also check WINS database for name and see what else (i.e. username) is registered against the same IP address.

hth

Steve

 

by: HDWILKINSPosted on 2002-12-16 at 08:50:04ID: 7589960

Go to a command prompt and enter NET SEND MachineName Message

Net Send yourmachine Hello

You can send a message to yourself to test this out.  

Harry

 

by: severed_tiesPosted on 2002-12-16 at 11:04:53ID: 7590697

If you want to send a message to more than one machine this can be accomplished also:

Type in NET SEND

use an asterik * to send to all connected computers (i think all in the domain) or type in your domain name.

then type your message.

you can also send using ip address - so if you know your brodcast address you could use that to send a message to each subnet.

-mark

 

by: dragon-itPosted on 2002-12-16 at 11:23:58ID: 7590794

But sadly of course unless his Win9x users have WinPopUp loaded they won't see the messages anyway :-(

I still think the easiest way to find the people behind these machines is to use a combination of sending messages with NET SEND as suggsted and/or using NBTSTAT -a to identify who is logged in then just phoning or emailing them...

So does any of this help, shekari04?

Steve

 

by: shekari04Posted on 2002-12-17 at 15:44:00ID: 7598421

guys appreciate the help but I can't test it out for now as I will not be at work for the next 2 weeks.

 

by: shekari04Posted on 2002-12-30 at 18:17:31ID: 7648705

Thanks a million guys. Since I don't have access to the server, I tried using the NET SEND command and it worked perfectly! Thanks again.

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