Ya net send is fun :]
Used to use it all the time in high school

is there a diff between command prompt and dos?
I was wondering how you use dos to hack

Dos is an operating system, early versions of Windows where a program which ran on top of Dos (1.x - 98); Dos is now integrated into Windows (ME+).

You cannot use an operating system to hack; you can use programs to use to aid in "hacking".

For note, command prompt is the same as the command line, and no you cannot use dos to hack.

I was wondering if it is possilbe to send a net message to people that are not on your tcp/ip network but over the internet using net send, providing you know their ip address? I can get net send to work on my own comptuer, but when i tried replacing the name of my computer with my ip address it says the message alias cannot be found on the network. Any help ywould be appriciated.

try

c:\>net send 127.0.0.1

or

c:\>net send localhost

and yes it can work over the internet. Just get your friend to do a

c:\>ipconfig

He will get something like this

Tell him to give you the IP address. Now this will only work if they are on XP, 2000 or NT4

It must be an NTFS system or you have to install "Net Send".

I set up something to log connection attempts on my home computer and would attempt to connect from friends houses really quickly, that way when I went home I would netsend them messages and they would get freaked out or pissed off because it will knock you out of a video game since the net sent message goes to the front window...

yea it is a pain in the ass

I was messing around on my wireless network at home and could not get the net send command to work.

"the message alias could not be found on network"

but i do it all the time at school... there are also no firewalls running on any machines, just the router.

never mind actually, found the answer to my problem... enabling the messaging service in admin tools.

http://www.rjlsoftware.com/support/faq/sa.cfm?n=37&q=147&r=y&