send message to pcs on lan

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I have my PC on sify 's lan. I wanted to send message to my friend 's pc whose ip address i know.

How do i send message to him???

Obviously, you both have to be in the same lan and sify must allow it.

Code:

net send 192.168.1.8 "This is how."

Make sure that messenger service is on both pc. And use the command suggested by siriub

siriusb said:
Obviously, you both have to be in the same lan and sify must allow it.

Code:

net send 192.168.1.8 "This is how."

if u find typing the ip address cumbersome ,u could also substitute the user name instead of the ip address.

messenger service is by default running unless one disables it from service. so make sure that. and instead of ip address u can give CMP NAME on the domain.

Ex:
net send crash hi how r u doing?

well u can select one of many lan messengers to help u out they are serverless n just have to start on ur`s and ur friends pc and then u can chat share files do everything

IP messenger --this is a nice free ware
quick tools -- freeware

Link:
*www.geocities.com/matterlogic/QuickTools.zip
hope it is helpful

blacklight said:
if u find typing the ip address cumbersome ,u could also substitute the user name instead of the ip address.

You could also use a computer's name. Just do a

Code:

net view

to view all computers' names in the lan, then U can substitute the ip with the name.
We had a primitive lan chat by doing a

Code:

net send * "Anybody want a pizza?"

for broadcast messages and sending msg to particular users as a primitive pm.

You may try install a local Jabber server on one of the machines. Everyone can then pass messages regardless of the ISP allowing it or not over the LAN

thanks all.