You can use Samba/iX to send 'WinPopUp' style messages to your
users directly from the 3000.  I have a small script that utilizes
smbclient to do just that available in the download section of the
www.sambaix.com site.  It's nothing fancy, but it does work.

Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
http://www.editcorp.com
voice: 888-858-3348 (EDIT) or 573-368-5478
fax:   573-368-5479
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In article <[log in to unmask]>, Tom Frazier
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Back in the "old days" - when all terminals were connected via DTC
>ports, it was straightforward to send messages to all DTC ports.  This
>is the method we used to notify users that a planned shutdown was over,
>etc.
>
>Now that most connections are from a network using terminal emulators,
>it's not so easy.  Naturally, we can use Novell broadcasts or Winpopup
>messages, but we'd like to be able to do it {perhaps automatically]
>from the 3000.
>
>Does anyone have ideas on how this could be done to a static IP
>address? How about DHCP-based addresses?
>
>TIA
>
>
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