When you attempt to send a message using Remote Access Admin to one or more of the Remote Access Service (RAS) clients who are connected to your RAS server, you may receive the following error:


If your server is running Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) you may receive the following error:


NOTE: With both cases, the Messenger Service is running on both the RAS or RRAS server and the RAS client. You can also use the NET SEND command at a command prompt to successfully send messages either to the remote computer or to the remotely connected user.

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To work around this issue, you will need to use Net.exe to send messages to RAS clients. For more information on using Net.exe type, the following at a command prompt:

net /?

For more information on using the NET SEND command, type the following at a command prompt:

net send /?

The following example would send a message that displays "Logoff in 5 minutes" to the connected user, JoeUser:

net send JoeUser "Logoff in 5 minutes"

NOTE: Those options that rely on broadcast-based messages will fail. Because RAS does not forward broadcast-based messages, the following Net.exe commands will fail:

•	net send /DOMAIN:<domain name>
•	net send *

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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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