[Tfug] Causing a remote linux box to make a sound on a local windows box

[Chad Woolley]

Cool.  I'd never heard of NAS.  I was wondering if something like NAS
existed.  Most other options are just variations on cross-network
messaging and triggers.

-- Chad


On 7/25/06, Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could:
>
> - ICEcast
> - use NAS http://www.radscan.com/nas.html#DOWNLOAD (prebuilt binaries
> for Windows that use Cygwin)
> - Home grow your own.  If you want to do it with HTML/JavaScript that is ok.
> - Send a email to a monitored account that triggers a notification
> with the "beep" sound.
> - Drop a file in a queue, and have something on the Windows machine
> pick it up, and play it (something like Samba with batch).
> - Send a smbmessage to the Windows machine, and change the sound from
> the "beep.wav", or whatever it uses.
>
> Can't think of many others...
>
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