the net send will work on any NT network with one exception. If the messanger service is off then net send wont work.
we use it here all the time to send mesages to each other. to my knowlege net send messages are not stored anywhere for retrieval by your boss
I would think that VB can exercise that command.
Assume you want to send a message to a person who is logged in as JoeBob on an NT network. I would go to the start menu and choose run. I would input the following:
net send JoeBob how are you?
you can also choose to send the message to a specific machine name regardless of who is logged in. Say the machine name is madmep03wnt (my machine name )
net send madmep03wnt hi badgers!
there is a program on the net that provides a UI for the simple net send command.


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I am so skeptacle, I can hardly believe it!