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I have admin access to all (read most) the machines on my LAN. However, I wanted all users to be able to coordinate with each other. How should I approach this problem?
One solution which I can think of, but which I know doesn't exist in the exact form, is this:messageping 192.168.23.45 Hi!
This would have popped up a message box saying Hi
on the given local address.
There are quite a few softwares which allow you to chat over the LAN. But in the cases that I have seen, the user has to log in at the startup. Specifically I want to solve the problem:
User Alice on address 192.168.23.44
wants to use MATLAB on 192.168.23.45
, which is currently being hogged by Bob. I want a way for Alice to ping Bob asking him when will he be done using the machine. The solution should not involve any action other than a simple login at startup.
related question : https://superuser.com/questions/197448/how-to-communicate-between-two-pcs-on-the-same-lan (accepted answer = LAN Chat)
– cppBeginner – 2019-06-01T06:45:55.017What operating systems are you running on the machines? – Der Hochstapler – 2014-02-06T22:55:48.567
Windows 7s and a few Windows XPs – Shashank Sawant – 2014-02-06T22:56:49.853
1Email? Telephone? IM? Why reinvent the wheel? – joeqwerty – 2014-02-07T01:59:59.310
A user on one machine doesn't know who is on another machine (it's a twisted quirk of Windows 7 coupled with Samba). Quite a few remote login to the machines and can't simply walk around to find out. – Shashank Sawant – 2014-02-07T02:13:28.603
I'd like to see some answers to this question include how to do it on Linux as well. I'm interested in the answer. – Dom – 2014-02-10T21:21:21.267
the only universal way to do this is to remove a computer's MAC from the network and wait until they contact you. There's no 100% way to "message" every OS. – tedder42 – 2014-02-11T20:36:10.610