NHF: How to annoy people using Samba

[Craig McPherson]

echo "You stink" | smbclient -M machinename or username

[ph34r]

Really? Hrm....

[syn]

will only work on the lan, i dont think it can carry through routers and switches and such

[pontiouspilate]

well i tried that but no windows messaging windows appears on the win98SE box. and the smbclient says it sent 29 bytes. any ideas?
PP

[Charles-K]

That will only work for NT clients... unless the win9x clients are running winpopup. And yes... this can be fun http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Co-worker " WHO'S DOING THIS!!! "

[Craig McPherson]

Yes, works best with NT/2000, and they must have the Messenger service on (which is on by default, btw). For 9x machines, they must be running Winpopup, which stinks.

Should work with UNIX machines running SAMBA also, if the target machine's SAMBA is set up to receive messages.

Should work over the Internet, even, assuming the target has their NetBIOS ports open to the world, which would be extremely dumb of them, but it happens. SMB messages over TCP talk through ports 137-139 rather than using broadcasting, so it should work over the Internet.

[ericb]

sweet! now i can yell at people who try to stream mp3s off my samba shares... why can't they just download them if they want them...

[boy_wonder]

If you really want to annoy them, why don't you put that in a loop in a shell script so they get lots of messages popping up all over their screen.

[bill grimes]

This looks like a whole lot o' fun. time to fire up the port scanner.

[Lorithar]

*grins*

More fun ... Since company now has 'acceptable Use policy" regarding internet use ... *grin* ...
At night, when people are pottering about after work

(since we all have NT machines at work)

net send <lanid> "Your attempt to access an illegal internet site has been logged and your manager has been notified"

*grins*

[mandreko]

i was doing this at work, but was wondering how a win2k machine could send messages back... anyone know?

[Craig McPherson]

1. Go to a DOS prompt... oops, excuse me, a command prompt, according to MS, DOS doesn't exist anymore.

2. Use the "net send" command, like this:

net send TARGETMACHINE message

Type "net send" with no other arguments for help and other options.

[ 11 February 2001: Message edited by: Craig McPherson ]

[madmanZ]

can also net send via NT logins also.
my personal favorite is

shutdown \\<machinename> /T:30 /C
"you been 0w3n3d"

i wonder if you can run that over a samba client :D

[xthulha]

playing with this on an NT machine, any ideas how to change the from field? i.e "Message from SPR101633..." I do not have permission to alter my computer name.