Send a message to a machine that is powered off

I would like to send a message, or something can be an advise from a pc to an another pc (only one, or at the most 2), the latter is powered off. The pc which should send the message is a windows server 2003 os, instead the pc which should receive the message is a windows xp os.

The two machines are in the same domain and they work together through an ingres database.

The message will be sent at night, because there is an ingres database back up procedure that runs at night when my pc will be powered off, but when in the morning i will be at work I would like to read this message as a net send message, or something like

Unfortunately the net send command is disabled in our network, so I can't use it, but i'm looking a way for sending this messa开发者_运维技巧ge.

Have you any suggestion? thank you

Use age-old simple file based messaging.

Store a message in a specific file in the server and write a simple application which runs on startup on your machine to read it and display it.

And this is apart from rerun's great suggestion :)

There is breaking new technology available called email.

Is the machine powered off or in standby?

If if is in standby, then I will defer to someone who may have a better idea of how to get wake the machine to wake up programatically(sp?).

If it is powered off then read on...

If you have access to the machines bios settings, then I would suggest scheduling a power on event in the range of the time before the backup normally completes.

Then it is a matter of receiving the message and optionally shutting back down afterward?

If you are unable to change the bios settings, then does the machine "power on after power loss?" If so, get a programmable timer from the nearest retail store and power off before leaving at night and have the timer set to power on before the time the backup could reasonably be completed.

This is not really a software solution per se, but your problem does seem to be mostly hardware related (with the power off requirement and all...)