Can someone please explain this to me?

[Guest]

Hello all! I'm a newcomer here and was hoping that someone could answer a question for me. I'm currently learning about batch files and DOS and don't yet know much about what I'm doing. A good friend of mine (who is also my boss), played a joke on me by writing and scheduling a batch file that sends several messages at a time through net send at different times of the day. (It takes a good two minutes just to close all the messages!) He also did it to where the messages are coming from other people's machines- even from our print server- instead of from his machine. How did he do that??? I know how to send several messages at once with a batch file, but I don't know how to schedule it and I don't know how to send them from machines other than my own. Can someone please explain to me how this is done? Also, does anyone know of any fun (NOT harmful!) ways I can play a joke back on him?
Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Jen ;-)

 

[madhur]

Hello
Net Send reports only the name of the computer and not the IP address. He
might have temporarily changed the name of his computer to that of your
print server.
Madhur
India

Hello all! I'm a newcomer here and was hoping that someone could answer a

question for me. I'm currently learning about batch files and DOS and don't
yet know much about what I'm doing. A good friend of mine (who is also my
boss), played a joke on me by writing and scheduling a batch file that sends
several messages at a time through net send at different times of the day.
(It takes a good two minutes just to close all the messages!) He also did it
to where the messages are coming from other people's machines- even from our
print server- instead of from his machine. How did he do that??? I know how
to send several messages at once with a batch file, but I don't know how to
schedule it and I don't know how to send them from machines other than my
own. Can someone please explain to me how this is done? Also, does anyone
know of any fun (NOT harmful!) ways I can play a joke back on him?

 

[Chris]

You can stop him from doing it to you by disabling the messenger service
through Start>Run>services.msc

Hello all! I'm a newcomer here and was hoping that someone could answer a

question for me. I'm currently learning about batch files and DOS and don't
yet know much about what I'm doing. A good friend of mine (who is also my
boss), played a joke on me by writing and scheduling a batch file that sends
several messages at a time through net send at different times of the day.
(It takes a good two minutes just to close all the messages!) He also did it
to where the messages are coming from other people's machines- even from our
print server- instead of from his machine. How did he do that??? I know how
to send several messages at once with a batch file, but I don't know how to
schedule it and I don't know how to send them from machines other than my
own. Can someone please explain to me how this is done? Also, does anyone
know of any fun (NOT harmful!) ways I can play a joke back on him?

 

[Guest]

He's able to turn it back on through Dameware.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Have you explained to your boss/friend that he's paying you to close
messages?

There are other ways to get even, if you can sneak access to his
computer install the Bluescreen Screen Saver from sysinternals and set
it to go off in 1 minute.

Steve

 

[Guest]

I would do that- except that he's already seen it. ;-(

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Well, you'll just have to be more creative I guess.

Steve