Send message with NetSend through LAN?

[-Colli$ion-]

hi guys, I m trying to make a little program in VB that will send messages across a LAN via netsend.
I want a text box where they type the IP of the computer they wish to send a message to, then i want a text box that they can type their message into and then the click send and it sends it via netsend to the address, but i really dont know how i can link what they type in my programs text box to what they type in Command Prompt????

/edit i need what they type in my programs text boxes to come up in Command Prompt.

Any help greatly appreciated

[Madboy]

you should make thread titles more descriptive

[-Colli$ion-]

sorry lol i really didnt have a clue what to call it

[Madboy]

You will get people who can help you better this way, as they know exactly what you are after. Try naming the thread:

"Send message with NetSend through LAN?"

Just edit your first post to change the thread title

[-Colli$ion-]

Done.

[Madboy]

Good one dude, welcome to the forums

Anyway, have you looked at www.pscode.com for examples on this? Theres loads of examples with source code for similiar things. Otherwise you can search the forums here

[-Colli$ion-]

www.pscode.com not working for me and i tried searching before i posted hehe, hi btw

[Madboy]

Ok, yeah it doesnt work, try:

www.planet-source-code.com

If that doesnt work, maybe there server is down

[Madboy]

Ok, the server must be down. You might want to try:

www.programmersheaven.com
www.vbheaven.com
http://www.a1vbcode.com
http://www.sloppycode.net

[-Colli$ion-]

ok www.planet-source-code.com didnt work but the other ones did ty m8

[Madboy]

no probs dude, just check pscode later, there are some very good full complete applications with source code. Though some are crap

[-Colli$ion-]

i've also noticed in VB i dont have an option to export only save

[Madboy]

By Export you mean compile your program into an executable (exe)?

If so, what version of Visual Basic are you using?

Enterprise Architect
Professional?

[-Colli$ion-]

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and yea i do mean compile

[Madboy]

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 "-----------"??

Theres different version of 6.0 with different license agreements. When you first load VB up, it says Professional, Enterprise etc. What does yours say?

[-Colli$ion-]

/////edit its proffesional edition

[Walter]

Answering the original question here

Shell "cmd /c net send " & txtIP.Text & " " & txtMessage.Text, vbHide

Where txtIP is the textbox holding the IP or hostname of the computer, and txtMessage holds the message... I have a funny feeling this will only work on Windows 2000/XP. If it doesn't work, try replacing "cmd" with "command"

[-Colli$ion-]

ok m8 i will give it ago

ty for the time you guys spent on me

[Walter]

No problem. Oh, and unless you have the learning edition of Visual Basic 6 (in which you can't compile your projects into executables), you should be able to do it by clicking

File -> Make [project_name_here].exe...

[-Colli$ion-]

Originally posted by Walter
Answering the original question here

Shell "cmd /c net send " & txtIP.Text & " " & txtMessage.Text, vbHide

Where txtIP is the textbox holding the IP or hostname of the computer, and txtMessage holds the message... I have a funny feeling this will only work on Windows 2000/XP. If it doesn't work, try replacing "cmd" with "command"

so do i have to name the text box where the ip is "txtip" so it looks for it there?

sorry about this but i am very new to VB infact first time today lol

[Walter]

yeah, the textbox where the user will enter the IP address will have to named "txtIP". same goes for the textbox for the message

[-Colli$ion-]

yep tried it and it works hehe ty guys lol i m really interested in this stuff now just got to figure out how to export (complie) my program

[Walter]

Originally posted by Walter
Oh, and unless you have the learning edition of Visual Basic 6 (in which you can't compile your projects into executables), you should be able to do it by clicking

File -> Make [project_name_here].exe...

[Madboy]

Not to be discouraging, but if this is your first day, shouldnt you practice on simpler apps first?

[Walter]

Simpler? It's hard to think of simple apps that actually do something, and teach you stuff at the same time. And really, this isn't all that difficult. Two textboxes, a command button and one line of code

[Madboy]

Yeah i guess, but really Text Editors can be fun at first and do learn you.

You learn how to Open/Save with dialogs
Work with the clipboard
Manage fonts, bold, formatting etc

Thats where i started, i skipped crappy Hello World Apps!

[Madboy]

Oh, i thought this kind of app would require Winsock or something on those lines. Or it that just used for sending and reieciving data over the internet?

[Walter]

Hello World

Infact, I think I've started nearly every programming language I've tried with a Hello World app

See your point about text editors though, they do teach a bit more...

And yeah, winsock is mainly used for sending data over the internet. This is just using an internal function of Windows, so nothing overly complicated is needed.

[Madboy]

Ok, theres a question i have here then. Say if you have a newtwork of 10 computers, named:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Say if i am using computer 1, where do you specify the computer name? Or is that done by IP? If its done by IP wont you need to retrieve the IP address first, so you know what it is?

[Walter]

Well, you should already know either the IP or the hostname

If you wanted to send a message to computer number 10, and because they are named that way, you just:

"net send 10 hello world!"

This will pop up a message box style window at the computer named '10', with "Hello world" in it. Because net.exe comes with Windows 2000/NT/XP, all the rest is handled by Windows... nothing else needed. As long as the network is properly set up that is

[Madboy]

Ok lol, so does it not support Win9x?

[Walter]

Originally posted by Madboy
Ok lol, so does it not support Win9x?

Technically... no

Although in Windows 9x there's a thing called "WinPopup", which lets you send and receive the same messages... even those sent from a Win 2k/NT/XP machine. Only problem is it needs to be running to receive messages, unlike the "messenger service" (for Windows 2k/NT/XP), which is always running and invisible.

So technically... yes

[Madboy]

Doh. Anyway at my college they use WinMe, so i might send prank messages one day

[Walter]

Originally posted by Madboy
Doh. Anyway at my college they use WinMe, so i might send prank messages one day

[visualAd]

Originally posted by Madboy
Ok, theres a question i have here then. Say if you have a newtwork of 10 computers, named:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Say if i am using computer 1, where do you specify the computer name? Or is that done by IP? If its done by IP wont you need to retrieve the IP address first, so you know what it is?

In Win 9x/Me you can only use the NetBios name of the computer or its IP address. What's more the computer you are sending the message to must be on the same network segmant as you are unless you have a WINS server running, in which case you'd need to be in the same worrkgroup and or domain.

From Windows 2000 TCP/IP is used and you can therefore send messages over larger networks. It is even possible to send a message over the internet if the user has left NetBios ports open.

[x-ice]

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[Walter]

Originally posted by visualAd
In Win 9x/Me you can only use the NetBios name of the computer or its IP address. What's more the computer you are sending the message to must be on the same network segmant as you are unless you have a WINS server running, in which case you'd need to be in the same worrkgroup and or domain.

From Windows 2000 TCP/IP is used and you can therefore send messages over larger networks. It is even possible to send a message over the internet if the user has left NetBios ports open.

Old thread

If I remember rightly, net send isn't supported in Win 9x/ME, so it won't work anyway Also, you can configure most Windows to use the TCP/IP protocol, but not sure about sending messages to older Windows versions over the Internet.

And yeah, you either have to specify the IP address or NetBios name... I mean, what else is there?

Anyways, old thread!

[visualAd]

Originally posted by Walter
And yeah, you either have to specify the IP address or NetBios name... I mean, what else is there?

Windows 2000 can also resolve host names via DNS.

I've never tried it before but in Windows 2000 it is possible to send a message to any computer with certain ports open. I don't think this is possible using net send - however there are pieces of software out there that can. As you can porbably imagain spammers got wind of it and were flooding people with pop up messages like:

"Your computer has viruses - goto www.virus.co.uk to scan and remove them."

Most firewall software now blocks the offending port which allows you to do this.

In Windows 98/98 you could install a utility called Winpopup which allowed you to send messages between computers in the same way net send does. However this software doesn't actually popup a message box - it just appears in the main window.

[blizard]

I made a program that send msgs through winsock in 2 ways

1) In a chat room style
2) A msgbox pops up with ur msg on the other comp.

both used winsock and in both u have to type in the other persons ip to send to them.
Amazingly they worked.

[Walter]

Originally posted by visualAd
Windows 2000 can also resolve host names via DNS.

Hostname or IP address, basically

And the popup ad's you mentioned use net send... as long as port 139 (NetBios) is open and the Messenger service is running on the remote computer, you can send a message to it. Even to Win 9x/ME computer if WinPopup is open.