I'm going to answer my own question now - just in case anyone else has a
burning desire to annoy people on the other side of the room too. I sort
of stumbled across the answer while playing with Linpopup as recommended by
Mike.
>From the command line it's
smbclient -M host
as long as you've got samba installed, also the Alerter service has to be
running on NT machines to receive the message.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How about the other way round - a message from Linux to Windows?
> >
> > The only way I've found to do it so far is install a windows talk demon
> > (I've used Exceed) and use talk, but that means setting up any machine I
> > want to contact first and then making sure the demon's running all the
> > time.
>
> I'm using a package called LinPopUp - works just fine for both sending and
> receiving. Need to have Samba running on the Linux box, but I needed Samba
> anyway so that was no big deal.
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