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little_creature - 13 Apr 2006 15:32 GMT

Hello everyone,
has anybody any experience with MacXPop? Want to receive NET SEND messages.
I've downloaded the MacXPop and followed the steps, however, when now
somebody wants to send me message from WIN he/she receives error message 2273
alias not found.
I did all the steps it requires, but in step 3:
sudo chown root.staff /bin/MacXPop there were trouble with root.staff, so my
helper told me to try root instead.
I'm just low-level user, who wants to receive net send message, so any help
appreciated.

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William Smith - 14 Apr 2006 03:01 GMT

> Hello everyone,
> has anybody any experience with MacXPop? Want to receive NET SEND messages.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> I'm just low-level user, who wants to receive net send message, so any help
> appreciated.

This line...

sudo chown root.staff /bin/MacXPop

seems like it should be two lines...

sudo chown root /bin/MacXPop
sudo chgrp staff /bin/MacXPop

Hope this helps! bill

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William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows)

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little_creature - 14 Apr 2006 14:42 GMT

> This line...
>
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Hope this helps! bill

Many thanks, however, now WIN says message was successfully send to ... But
no message on my Mac appears. I have restart win share in preferences,
turned of the firewall but still no message arrives.
I know the MacXPop is copied in bin, I have changed the privileges as you
indicated and edited the smb.config (message command = MacXPop %s %f &)
I also tried to send message to myself, it seems to be sent but again
nothing has appear.

smbclient -M x.x.x.x
Connected. Type your message, ending it with a Control-D
testsent 4 bytes

Any thought? This my first work in Unix based console so I do not know
much, just the basics I have been told by friends.

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Net send to Mac