I would like to do net send from VMS. Does anyone know if/how this can be done? Thanks, Irv

Don't know if it is possible directly. In fact, i'm quite sure this is not... But what i do is a DCL script which takes a NT username and a message, and connect to a NT platform via rsh: rsh machineNT "net send ''userNT' ''Message'" Works fine... And even better, if u're on openVMS > 7.1, you can do: pipe rsh machineNT "net send ''userNT' ''message'" & which behave like the "|" on UNIX, and allow to skip the wait of the completion. Hope this could help...

Thanks, this should be fine for what I want to do, but I haven't gotten it to work. Does the PC have to be identified or configured in some special way? I ask this because I get this when I use the user name on the PC: %RSH-E-IVHOST, Invalid or unknown host When I use the full computer name found under network identification I get this: %RSH-E-SERVNOTAVAIL, Remote service is not currently available Thanks for your help.

You can do it with Advanced Server/Pathworks (and probably with Samba).

You get this message: %RSH-E-IVHOST When you don't have RSH Daemon running on the specified platform... Becoze this very funny NT OS doesn't offer this service. You have then to install it. Search for RSHD NT on any of your favorite search site (yahoo, google...). I know there is WRSHDNT (made by winsock), which isn't free, but you can find others that are freeware.