Download LAN messanger to share file and chat over LAN network.

Today, I want to write something crazy and useful article to have fun. I remember that when I was in college, I have many friend and after college time some friends come to my house. And then we work on our college project. At that time we were trying to send file from one computer to other. We were using share folder option in windows. One of my friend have Mac Book so, it made a problem to transfer file. We were also want to chat during our work. Then I was searching for messenger which work on Home LAN Network. And then I was fined LAN Messenger.

You can also use this LAN Messenger in your office. I continue with my story, After completing 4 year of college. We were together and started one little company. At that we also use this LAN Messenger to share file and send messages. At your work, if you want to give some file to your colleague, you should copy this file in pendrive and give it to your colleague, second option is send it via email. But with LAN messenger just drag and drop this file in chat window and your colleague get this file and
after successful transfer operation it notifies you that your file is send successfully.

I think it is very help full at small office and at home. You can save your time from sending file on email or coping in pendrive. Sometime you are get bored from work in office at that time for relaxing you can use lan messenger and create group and start chat in group.

Let’s start with how to setup lan messenger and how to use their different features.

1. Download LAN Messenger

Now, In this section you will download LAN Messenger and save it in your computer. First of all, You have to download LAN Messenger form below link.
Download LAN Messenger : Click Here.

2. Installing LAN Messenger

• Click on LAN Messenger Setup file. One pop-up box comes for those who have windows 7 and 8. Then press Yes button.
• Now your installation process is starting. As per you can see above image, You will see “Welcome Wizard”. Follows the steps and install it. At the end you will get “Completing the LAN Messenger Setup Wizard”.
• Now click on finish, your LAN Messenger successfully installed, and you can see home scree on LAN Messenger.
• Now, we go forward to take some introduction of home screen and menu bar in next step.

3. Introduction of Home Screen and Menu

You can see in above picture there are four different window are there.

Home Screen : It shows your friends list with their name and photo who are connected in same network.

Messenger Menu : From this menu, you can create new Chat Room, you can do public chat, refreshing friend list, and exit from LAN Messenger

Tools Menu : It has some sub-menus like History,File Transfer, and Performance. From it you can see your history and configure LAN Messenger, I will show you how to use Preference menu in next-to-next Step.

Profile Status : You can change your status by just clicking on icon beside your name. There are different status available like Busy,Do Not Disturb, Be Right Back, Away, Appear Offline.

4. How to Chat and Create Chat Room.

It’s very easy to chat with one of your friend, just click on name of them from friend list. You can get one pop with your friend name, and at the bottom text area will there so, write their your message and press enter. You can see one screen shot of Chat box below.

Chat box

Some options like Font type, Font color, smiley, File attach and folder attach, and history all buttons are give just above your text box.

5. How to send File

Just click on “Send file to” button, then one pop up will open select your file and file will sent, and it shows in chat box, you can also cancel file transfer. One screen shot shows above.

6. Configure Your LAN Messenger

General Setting

For configuring your LAN Messenger you should go to menu bar, then click on Tools and select Preference. Now, Preference window will open, in which left side contain different settings like General, Account, Network, Alerts, History, and more. We will see one by one.

6.1 Change Name (Account Setting)

If you want to change your name which use as screen name then you should go to Account Setting and in this you can change your name.

6.2 Alert Setting

Alert Setting

In Alert Setting, you can change notification type like sound and ringtone, while message will come or file successfully transfer.

6.3 Network Setting

In network setting you can configure UDP Port and TCP Port, those are using for sending message and transferring file. In my Lan messenger is use 22222 for UDP Port and TCP Port is 33333. If you change your UDP & TCP port then your friends must use this same port no, if you all using different then you can’t see your friend in your friend list.

6.4 File Transfer Setting

In this section you can change location of received file. And you can set auto accepting file.

6.5 Appearance Setting

In Appearance Setting, there are many different chat theme is available we can use as per our choice.

But one thing you should keep in mind that all user are connected in one network.
It has many features. You just install on your computer and start to share file and send instance messages.

One awesome features is it support all platform like Linux, Mac, Windows.

So, Download it and install and start chatting with your friends and place your experience in below section as comment and share with your friends.