Easy Samba Problem w/WinPopUp

illuminatedwax · 09-29-2004, 10:37 PM

I am trying to set up my Samba (debian, smb3.0.7) to receive winpopup messages from myself.
I want to say echo "hi" | smbclient -M shibuya (the name of my computer) and it says:
"message start: ERRSRV - ERRmsgoff (Not receiving messages.)"

I have in my smb.conf:
; message command = /bin/sh -c 'touch /home/illuminatedwax/testbed/TEST.TEST'

How do I turn messages on?

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I googled and the only answers I could find were relating to Windows machines.

--Stephen

CroMagnon · 09-30-2004, 12:56 AM

The line in your smb.conf is commented out - if you remove the semicolon from the front of it, then every time you send a message the file shown will have it's timestamp updated (and you will lose the message - great!).

The example given in the manpage for smb.conf is this:
message command = csh -c 'xedit %s;rm %s' &

If you have X running, and you have xedit (you should), put this in smb.conf, restart samba, and try again.

illuminatedwax · 09-30-2004, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CroMagnon
The line in your smb.conf is commented out - if you remove the semicolon from the front of it, then every time you send a message the file shown will have it's timestamp updated (and you will lose the message - great!).

The example given in the manpage for smb.conf is this:
message command = csh -c 'xedit %s;rm %s' &

If you have X running, and you have xedit (you should), put this in smb.conf, restart samba, and try again.

The touch command was just a test...silly me thought the semicolon was necessary, NOT a comment...

Thanks,
--Stephen