first of all the command is this. smbclient -M note the upper case m followed by a space and the netbios name of the windows machine or the ip address no preceeding forward or back slashes are necissary. after that you should have a message that says connected. type your message and predd strl+d to send after which you type the message and press enter and then hit ctrl+d hth -- The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train. Shaun Oliver http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/
