Sending out a message

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum (March 06)

A while back (last year), on our library computers, someone had sent out a message on all of the computers in the form of a dialog box. How exactly was this done? I would guess you would have to gain admin access, or am I wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!

I guess he did it using the command:

net send <name | * |domain[|name] | /USERS> message

For example.

net send * Hi

would send the message "Hi" to all the computers on the same domain as myself.

I am not really sure if you need admin rights for this.

Hmmm.....so would that broadcast a message in the form of a dialog box? Because from what I remember, it was a dialog box that could not be closed like normal ones, it was sort of static, but that is an interesting command that you showed me. Thanks.

EDIT: I just searched it up Taurun, thanks. It's actually a dialog box, which is what I wanted. The only confusing part is the actual syntax, but I'll give it a shot. Now I just need to find out if the dialog box will stay there, or disappear when someone clicks "OK".

Yeah it goes away when you press ok.

Got it, thanks for the help tarun.