Message application between Macs on internal local network

I’m looking for an application that will allow interchange of short messages (copy/pasteable) between Macs on my home network via Ethernet/router/Airport. At the moment, I use email.

You can use iChat via Bonjour on your local network to communicate in much the same fashion as you'd use it via internet based services. I even found a nice short video demonstrating the ease of setup:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-988717806037213326#

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Welcome to Apple Discussions, saucyandbossy
If your family uses Windows® and has or will add the latest version of AIM® to their PC, launch iChat on your Mac, add their buddy name(s) (AIM Screen Name) to your iChat Buddy List, and contact them like you would any other iChat contact. If you need help adding buddy names, search your Mac's iChat > Help for "Adding people to the buddy list" (without the quotation marks).
If your family has problems setting up or using AIM®, or if they choose not to use it, both you and your family can download and install your respective versions of Skype and use Skype as your cross-platform video chat application. Skype offers comprehensive help at their website, including a dedicated Skype Forum. For those who have trouble connecting iChat and AM® (some do), Skype currently seems to offer the easiest to use, free, cross-platform video chat connections.
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I almost always use my laptop along with mail.app on my home network that has OS X server with the mail service running
When I leave my network, however, and try to send a message using mail.app, it shows an error saying
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Hi there,
For the past few months, I've had no problem
connecting to my friend's iMac over a local network.
Lately, when I click connect, the ftp dialogue pops
up rather than the "connect to server" dialogue. I
don't want no stinking ftp.
Confusing...
When you say "when I click connect" what are you clicking on?
What happens if you press command + K and in the connect to server window enter the server's IP address?

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Thanks,
Brad.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229
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Hey guys!
I'm looking for a way to automate shutdown of 2 macs over a local network from a remote mac. I'm currently doing this by screen sharing in and shutting down both macs manually.
I have this untested theory that I could use my very basic knowledge of apple script to create a shutdown script on each mac and use an alias on the remote mac to run the script. However I am sure there is a much better way of doing this, I'm just lacking the know how! The script I want would ideally do as follows.
Run script from remote to Mac 1 and Mac 2 over network
Quit all running applications on Mac 1 and Mac 2
Shut down Mac 1 and Mac 2 in 5 minutes
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Introduction:
I have tried a few things over my local network. My attempt to run a remote AppleScript nearly shutdown the Mac I was activating it from. There are probably ways around this but I decided to try something else.
The following is a very stable solution once you have got it working. Each Mac to be shut down watches a folder called shut-down and if its contents change the Mac shuts down in one minute.
I am sure this can be improved upon.
Let me know how you get on.
Permissions:
It is simple to do all this as root user as described below but without 'with administrator privileges' at the end of the AppleScript.
If doing it as admin use the AppleScript as below. The plist may need permissions set to root wheel.
The shut-down folder will need appropriate sharing permissions.
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open TextEdit
create a new document
set TextEdit format to plain text
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paste into the TextEdit document
save as shut-down.plist
put document in folder /Library/LaunchAgents on each Mac to be shut down
create folders entitled shut-down at the root of Macs to be shut down
run launch AppleScript below on each Mac to be shut down
Future changes to the shut-down folder's contents will shut down the Mac.
Contents of shut-down.plist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>Label</key>
          <string>shut-down</string>
          <key>ProgramArguments</key>
          <array>
                    <string>shutdown</string>
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                    <string>+1</string>
          </array>
          <key>WatchPaths</key>
          <array>
                    <string>/shut-down</string>
          </array>
</dict>
</plist>
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Put the following on one line;
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Dear all,
If my server is enabled for the remote desktop connection, then the users on the local network can access my server IIS services by entering the IP address of my server in the IE (http/https) on the local network only.
I went to control panel>>system>>Allow Remote desktop Connection>>with network level authentication.
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check out this youtube video:
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