User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

Sending and Receiving Messages

Sending Messages

The Messenger service does not have to be running for you to send a mes-

sage. However, it must be running for your workstation to receive messages.

You can send a message to an alias on the network or to a domain. An alias

is a unique name that each user speciﬁes. A workstation can have three kinds

of aliases:

• A computername, which becomes an alias for a workstation when the

workstation is added to the network

• An alias added with the Aliases command from the Message menu or with the net

name command from the command line

• A username

A username does not necessarily become an alias when a user logs on to the

network. This is because an alias must be unique on the network, but a user

can be logged on at more than one workstation at a time. If a user logs on at

several workstations, the username becomes an alias only at the ﬁrst work-

station where the user logs on.

A domain name is used like an alias for sending messages to a domain. All

the workstations and servers that specify a domain as their workstation

domain receive messages sent to the domain name.

To send a message

1 From the Message menu, select Send a typed message.

The Send a Message dialog box appears.

LAN Manager preselects the Name option.

2 To send a message to a user, type that user’s alias in the Name box.

If you are sending a message to more than one user, separate the aliases with a

space. If you want a copy of the message, specify your own alias too.

3 To send a message to all the users in a domain, select the Domain option, and type

the domain name.

4 In the Message box, type your message.