sms server setup
 

Hi i am running ubuntu 8.04 and i would like to run an application that when someone sends sms to a mobile number i will be able to see it in the screen of my PC.
I need to know why kind of equipment and the setup needed.

Probably you'll need a similar equipment to a telecommunication company equipment :p unless you hack into the company's system and configure the system to forward all the messages received by the number of your interest on your computer as well :)

right very funny.
so every company then that has a sms server it hacked to the telecom company?

Sending a message is not the same as receiving a message... And they have a contract with a telecom company.

You can use an SMS program. There may be an appropriate one on this list.

Alternatively you could use an SMS gateway that allows replies such as aspsms although it would probably require a bit of scripting :)

He wants to receive messages that have been sent to a particular number.. Not to send SMS. And if you make the effort to think a little bit you'll realise that such a thing is impossible. Unless the number of your interest is YOUR number! Could you imagine someone else receiving the SMS you receive? This is 1) Unethical 2) Almost impossible!