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I want to use the equivalent of net send, but from a MacBook. I want to send a pop up message from my mac to a windows machine on same network. Is smbutil the command to use?

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Run the following command, then enter your message and press ⌃D to finish and send.

smbclient -M NETBIOSNAME -U FROMNAME

-U FROMNAME is optional

grg
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  • Thanks for the quick reply, I forgot to mention the version, 10.9.4, and smbclient is no longer available... – Frenchie Aug 06 '14 at 13:21
  • Does this work without doing any configuration in a Windows machine? Or do I need to do something in the windows machine beforehand, like installing samba and/or launching the server? – GeekInDisguise Apr 10 '20 at 09:07
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Maybe for others who find the question:

But it's no pop up! It's more like a chat.

One machine has to be the Server:

nc -v -l 12345

-v: verbose (more information about execution of the command)

12345: any port of your choice higher than 1024

All other machines can be client(s):

nc -v [ip of server] 12345

-v: look above

[ip of server] to find out ip: ìfconfig | grep inet`(probably one of the 192.168.xxx.xxx or maybe even 172.xxx.xxx.xxx numbers)

12345: again the chosen port of the server

Hope that helps!

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