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    Lightbulb Network Sending

    Me and my brother are on a linksys wireless LAN
    i need a way to have something such as a message box pop up on his screen without him having to load anything himself.
    The goal is basically to have a messge box with the message "Dinner Time" pop up on his screen, but if there is any better means to convey that message then they would work too

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    Re: Network Sending

    you really need to use a server/client application, you should have the client and your brother should have the server. What you could do is get a very basic chat program adn then make your brothers side invisible. You could use commands to make things happpen

    e.g if txtMain.text = "/dinner" then
    msgbox "Oi! Dinner is ready!"
    txtmain.text = ""
    end if

    sometihng like that will work, to make sure that your brother has the program open all the time you could make it open fom startup using the registry or startup folders. So basically use winsock to make your program, somebody will give you an example

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    Re: Network Sending

    Thats the problem, i need it to run with no consent from him, i know its possible i just dont know how

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    Re: Network Sending

    This is how I'd send you the message if we were on the same network and you were logged on as "notquitehere188"

    text1.text="Dinner Ready!!!"
    retval = Shell("net send notquitehere188 " + text1.text, 0)

    I know it works on WinNT and Win2k.
    HTH

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    Re: Network Sending

    Amaury, would you happen to know what the syntax would be for a workgroup message to a specific IP address? I tried the obviouse but it didn't work.
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    Re: Network Sending

    send it to everyone
    NET SEND * "test"
    if it doesn't work, then there may be a firewll issue. it didn't work for me either, as my AV system is prolly stopping it.

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    Re: Network Sending

    LOL - yep that worked. Always wondered how to do that. That needs a bit more research my end. Many thanks for the pointer.
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    Re: Network Sending

    It hasent though, what am i logged into, im confused

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    Re: Network Sending

    did you read my post? I confused you with David.P. Sorry about that.

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