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This is a little embarasing. I use my work (w2k) laptop at weekends
for surfing at home using a wireless connection. When working from
home during the week I use VPN to the office an become part of the
domain.

Sunday evening 'someone' sent a <net send * message>, expecting to
reach the other computer at home for a laugh. What actually happened
is the computer said the message was successfully sent to the laptop's
domain (the work domain). Does this message stay stored on my laptop
waiting till it can see the domain, or did it die because it couldn't
see the network? I'm pulling my hair out concerned that the personal
message will be sent to the entire office when I next login.

Funny huh?
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This is a little embarasing. I use my work (w2k) laptop at weekends
for surfing at home using a wireless connection. When working from
home during the week I use VPN to the office an become part of the
domain.

Sunday evening 'someone' sent a , expecting to
reach the other computer at home for a laugh. What actually happened
is the computer said the message was successfully sent to the laptop's
domain (the work domain). Does this message stay stored on my laptop
waiting till it can see the domain, or did it die because it couldn't
see the network? I'm pulling my hair out concerned that the personal
message will be sent to the entire office when I next login.

Funny huh?
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Quite. Happy Hallowe'en!
 
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This is a little embarasing. I use my work (w2k) laptop at weekends
for surfing at home using a wireless connection. When working from
home during the week I use VPN to the office an become part of the
domain.

Sunday evening 'someone' sent a , expecting to
reach the other computer at home for a laugh. What actually happened
is the computer said the message was successfully sent to the laptop's
domain (the work domain). Does this message stay stored on my laptop
waiting till it can see the domain, or did it die because it couldn't
see the network? I'm pulling my hair out concerned that the personal
message will be sent to the entire office when I next login.
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If the computer said it sent the message successfully to the work domain,
and if, at the time, you had connectivity to your work domain, the message
has already been sent, and it is too late to do anything other than
apologize (or resign, I suppose, depending on the nature of the message and
what company policy might have to say about letting someone else use a
laptop from work).

If you were not actually connected, then I suspect the message went to all
domain member workstations that were accessible at the time. If so, there
should be no problem, unless someone else at your office reads this
newsgroup and somehow recognizes you.

Net send is not a store and forward messaging system - just a facility for
broadcasting messages (typically system availability notices) to whichever
computers happen to be accessible at the time.

Of course, if you are that concerned because of the nature of the message,
you could get someone with a similar setup to try sending a completely
innocent and acceptable message the same way, and see what happens when they
next logon. Alternately, you could take the easy/coward's way out and
re-install the O/S on your system.

/Al

PS: you could also try removing the workstation from the domain and then
re-joining - that seems to blow away some of the domain-specific settings.
 
Hi Al,

Thanks for your kind words. The computer was not connected to the
domain at all when the message was sent (there was no VPN in place).
I was on the internet, but that's immaterial. I'm just concerned that
having been sent, the message is sitting there like a ticking
timebomb, just waiting for me to logon to the domain again. If your
saying that the message is only instantaneous, and is not queued with
network traffic waiting until it can see the domain again then I
should be happy.

Reinstalling or removing from domain not an option. I've obvisouly
rebooted, but is there any way of seeing what network traffic is
queued, if this is how it works.

Yours nervously,
A.
 
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