Re: Anyway to start the "Messenger" service only when connected to AD?



There is no way to do that that I know of, but any home router with a
firewall should prevent net send messages from getting to the computer...

Out of interest, why use Net Send to send important messages? Does e-mail
not work? I'd argue that it isn't widely used anymore. On my fresh build
of XP Pro with SP2, it is disabled by default.

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"TFS" <TFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I use quite a lot of "send net" to broadcast important messages to the
>whole
> domain. But the "messenger" service has to be started in order to receive
> messages. However, more than half of the computers are portables that the
> owners could bring back home. And when they're home, they're connected to
> Internet with every mean available to them. And it's better that the
> Messenger service is stopped to avoid spam messages from Internet or other
> virus.
>
> So, is there a way to start this service when these portables are
> connected
> to the AD. And when they're not connected to the AD, the service should
> be
> stopped.
>
> TIA


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