Good afternoon. Several of the computers on my home network run various incarnations of XP. I live in rather a large house with rather a lot of people, and whenever I so much as reset the modem there is invariably an annoyed shout from one bedroom or another. So, I'd like to be able to use net send to distribute warnings from the comfort of my chair. I realize that freeware apps are available to fill this void, but I'm to the point now where net send really SHOULD be working, and I can't figure out why it doesn't. So I'd like to solve it as much for the sake of knowing what the problem was as anything else. All of the computers are running the Messenger service. Each machine has a static local IP, all are members of the same workgroup, and all of them can see each other and share files via My Network Places/View Workgroup Computers. All of them can see each other via net view.However, when I attempt to do <net send computername msg>, I still get "The message alias could not be found on the network." My computer can get a message to one of the others using <net send * msg>, but the message still does not appear on most of our computers. The other machines, including the one that receives from my computer, can only send messages to themselves using that command.Furthermore, attempting to <net view computername> only works with that one computer that receives domain-wide messages. The other computers bring up the same error message.Finally, doing <net name> produces "There are no entries in the list," even when it's run immediately after <net name Computer1 /add>.At this point I'm not sure what I'm not doing or what I need to check. I was under the impression that if all of the computers can share files and all are running Messenger, net send ought to work.I'd really appreciate any nuggets of expertise which might clear this up. Thanks in advance! 1 person got this answerI do too