How useful is it to use windows NET SEND for unraid control?

[WeeboTech]

I've been playing around with some control programs lately and one of the things that came up was, how do you send messages from windows to somewhere else.

 

There has to be some tool to send messages for control.

I was playing with NETCAT, then I thought of using the native ability of winpopup messages and samba...

 

I.E. Using

 

net send IPADDR "message to send"

 

This would allow jobs to send message segments to an unraid server if we programmed some sort of daemon to accept/react upon them.

 

So

1. How useful is this really?

2. What functionality needs to be controlled and automated via some batch mechanism?

 

So far I came up with

poweroff

reboot

spinup

spindown

 

As far as poweron... Well that has to be done with Wake on Lan, A BIOS config, a special program, and a special packet sent.

That's another topic in itself.

 

What else is there?

[NLS]

It would potentially be a safer mechanism than using messages through "web calls".

 

Would make some nice desktop shortcuts.

 

 

[WeeboTech]

OK figured out how to do it.

It's a configuration option in smb.conf

 

Line called

 

message command =

 

 

neato interface, Looks like I have some more writing to do for my remote control shell.