[SAMBA]: Net send'ed message to receive.

Hello,

I am running Samba version 2.2.3a-12.3 on our Debian linux box. There is
a number of Windows users who extremally like to use Windows tool ,,net
send'' to WinPopup others- that is to all computers in a workgroup. There is a
need to log all of these messages on server running Samba. Unfortunately
smb.conf's message command doesn't handle ,,net send *'' messages.
Can you help me with solving that problem ? I've been google'ing for some
time before writting here and I couldn't find anything that matched my
problem.

cheers,
jr.

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Jacek Ro¿en

Jacek Ro?en wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running Samba version 2.2.3a-12.3 on our Debian linux box. There is
> a number of Windows users who extremally like to use Windows tool ,,net
> send'' to WinPopup others- that is to all computers in a workgroup. There
> is a need to log all of these messages on server running Samba.

> Unfortunately
> smb.conf's message command doesn't handle ,,net send *'' messages.

In fact, smb.conf´s "message command" is quite exactly what you need to
use. man smb.conf:

"message command (G)
this specifies which command to run when the server receives a WinPopup
style message."

The (G) means that this option belongs in the [global] section.

> Can you help me with solving that problem ?
> [...]

Try something like:
message command = bash -c 'echo "from %f to %t: %s" >> /var/log/popups' &

> cheers,
> jr.
>
> --
> Jacek Ro?en

cheers,
Robert

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:09:59 +0100, Robert Spielmann wrote:

> Jacek Ro?en wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running Samba version 2.2.3a-12.3 on our Debian linux box. There is
>> a number of Windows users who extremally like to use Windows tool ,,net
>> send'' to WinPopup others- that is to all computers in a workgroup. There
>> is a need to log all of these messages on server running Samba.
>
>> Unfortunately
>> smb.conf's message command doesn't handle ,,net send *'' messages.
>
> In fact, smb.conf´s "message command" is quite exactly what you need to
> use. man smb.conf:
>
> "message command (G)
> this specifies which command to run when the server receives a WinPopup
> style message."
>

I agree, when the message is sent directly to the server (smbclient -M
host). But in case of ,,net send *'' message command doesn't work.

cheers,
jr.

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Jacek Ro¿en