Send windows popup message

[Raj Mithal_1]

Hi Guys,
I'm looking for a way in which to send a windows popup message to specific users from my UX11.11 server.

I tried the write msg in UNIX but it freeze the terminal emulator. I think a popup will be an alternative unless somebody knows of another way to this.

I get the user info from the logged on sessions in the Oracle DB. If there is a way to evoke the NET SEND command on the users PC from UX it will be great.

[Peter Godron]

Raj,
not a popup method, but how about wall ?
"man wall" on hpux for usage

[Mel Burslan]

Raj,

Unless the PC you want to send this pop-up to, is running an X-emulator, you can not do what you are trying to do.

If your users are connected using something like reflection-x and using an xdmcp session, then you can push a custom dtterm with your message on it, and close it after a certain time passes.

But I do not think that you can push a native microsoft windows popup dialog using standart hpux utilities.

[John Kelly_3]

If you have samba installed then you can do

echo "Message text" | smbclient -M

[Sp4admin]

Hi Raj,

I'm not aware of a way to send a popup. But like Pete said there i sthe "wall" command.

Sp,

[Sp4admin]

Hi Raj,

I'm not aware of a way to send a popup. But like Pete said there is the "wall" command.

Sp,

[Raj Mithal_1]

Thanks for the quick reply guys.
- I can not use WALL (write to all) because it will notify all 900+ users on the server. Beside wall also interrupts and freeze the emulator same as WRITE.
- The telnet emulator we use is a product called RAMBA because it caters for the key mapping to Oracle forms.
- There is no SAMBA installed on the server.
- There are 42 DB's on the server and I want to send the msg to the users signed onto a specific DB only asking them to logoff before the day-end starts. Day-end for each DB will start at different times.
- I noticed that I can push a file over to windows with tftp but I canâ t execute it. Normal FTP is blocked.
- SAMBA looks like it might work. Is SAMBA a licensed product?

[Ivan Krastev]

Take a look at docs site about samba - http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8725AA