User Guide

Managing the NetWare Server 91
Server Operating System Administration Guide
103-000148-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Sending Console Messages to Workstations
To send a message from the server console to all workstations or to a single
user using NetWare Remote Manager, see Sending Messages to Users in the
NetWare Remote Manager Administration Guide.
To send a message from the server console to all workstations or to a single
user using MONITOR, complete the following:
1 From the Available Options menu, select Connections.
2 Press F8 to display more options on the task bar.
3 On the list of Active Connections, select the connection for the user you
want to send a message to. (Use F5 to mark additional recipients.)
In the Active Connections list, items without an asterisk (*) represent
logged-in users.
4 To display the message composition box, press F4.
5 Type your message in the message box and press Enter to send it.
A confirmation box appears.
6 You can either choose to send the message immediately or you can press
Esc to discard it.
For more information, see MONITOR in Utilities Reference. For information
about receiving and clearing messages at the workstation, see the
documentation for your NetWare client.
Terminate one or more connections.
Use this procedure to clear the connection when a
workstation has crashed and left open files on the
server.
Note: Transaction monitoring (TTS) provides
automatic backout for database records or files
stored on the server if a workstation has crashed
and left those files open on the server. Also a file is
protected if the Transaction (T) file attribute is set
for it.
See “Clearing a Workstation Connection” on page
92.
Send a message to one or more workstations.
Use this procedure when you need to warn users to
log out before you down the server.
See “Sending Console Messages to Workstations”
on page 91.
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