Net Send Problem

[Guest K1u]

How can i get past the problem of when i want to send for a example a batch file in net send i get "Sending files is no longer supported." is there any way to get past this?

[.PJ]

are you using xp sp2? in sp2 they disabled net send.

Can you send normal text based messages using net send?

If so, it might be something thats disabled and you need to re-enable in the services.

PJ

[Guest K1u]

Yep this problem started when i updated to sp2 and im not going to uninstall sp2 because i crittically need it and nope i cant send text either.

[moonlit]

Yeah I think Net Send is disabled in SP2 so you're probably out of luck.

[Sparda]

Full Size

It still works, it's just disabled by default and prety much any firewall will block it unless it is configured other wise.

[Mel]

Hmm I never knew that about SP2. Why did they disable it?

[SomeoneE1se]

Too many people pluged into the cable modem /DSL or whatever and it was being used for spam

I had a fresh XP box (so they test the cable out) and I got like 30 messages in like 10 secs

[Mel]

Ohh okay thanks for clearing that up mate. Yeah I do remember those days when we used to spam friends and just have a laugh with it.. That was a very long time ago though... Hmm anyway thanks again for clearing that up

[Guest K1u]

How strange any ip i put in it says cannot find on network not even loopback works i also tried getting a friend to turn on messenger and still the same problem could it be my firewall i have checked it and it does not seem like it.

[barrytone]

I wrote a little bat file at college when I was bored to have a little fun with.

It uses psexec to enable and start the messenger service on two remote machines and then send a message from one to the other. Great if you know the local admin password and want to pester people who may look at the message's origin computer name :roll:

usage: send.bat <target> <host> <admin password> <message>

psexec %1 -u administrator -p %3 sc config messenger start= auto

psexec %1 -u administrator -p %3 net start messenger

psexec %2 -u administrator -p %3 sc config messenger start= auto

psexec %2 -u administrator -p %3 net start messenger

psexec %2 -u administrator -p %3 net send %1 "%4"

A little off topic, but I thought some might like it.

[.PJ]

If you still haven't enabled it yet

Go

start > control panel > administrative tools (classic view) > services > scroll down and find messenger > properties > start up type: manual > apply > then click start to start it.

If there is anything else netsend requires, it will be in that list somewhere, and will be disabled, so look for it or google it and enable the required components.