Is there a good alternative to NET SEND for Intranet messaging 3

[FoxEgg]

I have used NET SEND on some W2000 networked machines and it worked well... More machines have XP Pro and it is a little less than friendly (ie I can't get it to work properly).

I tried downloading INTERCHAT3 (Freeware)... nope .. didn't like XP (TO be fair, the documentation mentions this)

Hence my question... on a 10 machine company where one party wishes to instantly message another... what alternaives are there ?

Thanks for suggetions.

JF

 

[Tightpants]

Me too!

 

[Wilma]

Ive just noticed this too with SP2

I use net send for monitoring servers / UPS etc etc

yes I can script net start messenger, however this only works when the service is "manual" its disabled.

any scripting ideas?

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=878468