Net Send in Windows Vista

re: Net Send in Windows Vista

Bong Eye — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:40:29 GMT

The reasons you cannot use the commands in vista home premium is that it is not able to join a domain and the function is not needed on a home network.

re: Net Send in Windows Vista

Justin Admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:02:06 GMT

It's sad that MS has made Vista administration sooooooo much more difficult in many ways than XP administration. Every time I turn around, I've lost yet another capability. Really, if it were up to me, my workplace would NEVER go to Vista. The "wow" I find is usually "Wow, what were they thinking?"

re: Net Send in Windows Vista

jr_mtb — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:53:16 GMT

I could send command line messages to Vista workstations using MSG.exe (depends on terminal server service) only after adding the following registry entry with logon script:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server

Name : AllowRemoteRPC

Type : REG_DWORD

Value : 1

This fixes "Error [1722]:The RPC server is unavailable."

Thanks to this thread

http://blog.netnerds.net/2007/05/vista-net-send-is-gone-use-msg-console-instead/

cheers

re: Net Send in Windows Vista Home Premium

Jordan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:35:55 GMT

How can i not use MSG.EXE in home premium

re: Net Send in Windows Vista

Susan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:04:33 GMT

Hi Brad. How do I know if I have admin rights on the target computer? Password protected file sharing is on for all Vista computers in my network and I can access, edit and modify files in the target computer's public folder. But I get the error getting server names when I try to send a message via msg.exe.

And what is the server name? Is that the computer name of the target computer? I would really appreciate some help. Thanks.

re: Net Send in Windows Vista

Davis — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:31:13 GMT

ight, i have the home premium verison of vista and started getting into cmd and all that, teaching myself, i have the ip of my buddys computer is there some way that i can send him a message even tho i dont have msg.exe instaled on my command prompt. also, off subject, idk if anyone knows about this but the "shutdown -i" command, when i enter the ip and all that its not working it says i have the worng ip and i dont.... help?

re: Net Send in Windows Vista

BooRadely — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:42:25 GMT

Sarah/Ryan/Jason, the only suggestion I can think of to begin with is to investigate with network monitor.

You'll probably be able to garnish some clues from a sniff which will lead you in the right direction.

As for error 5, that's access denied, so make sure you have admin rights on the target.

re: Net Send in Windows Vista

Jason — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:58:58 GMT

I am getting the RPC error as well as error 5, can't list sessions. Is there something that will let me send messages to specific users or groups on a network without having them install software to receive it?

re: Net Send in Windows Vista

Ryan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:51:44 GMT

Im also getting Error [1722]:The RPC server is unavailable. just as Sarah is getting.

My situation would be: I am remoted into a 2003 terminal server doing remote work, everything is on the domain, and the tserver is also a DC. I need to reboot 2 laptops in the callcenter so i:

msg /SERVER:pc11 console "please restart your laptop before you leave, etc...."

and I get the 1722 RPC error.

(this 1722 RPC error i have ended up getting at different customer's sites for the past 3 years doing tech work, of course every one has to be different, *sigh*)

any solutions for this one? --Ryan

re: Net Send in Windows Vista

Sarah — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:59:41 GMT

When I MSG from XP to Vista, I receive the following message:

Error opening Terminal server VISTAPC

Error [1722]:The RPC server is unavailable.

Any advice?