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Is it possible to send text messages between two users of the same LAN, but the first running Windows with cmd and the second running Linux/Unix?

I am not looking for an instant messaging service. I would like to type in the Linux shell something like

write [email protected]:port message

so that the Windows user can read in its cmd window the text message; then the Windows user should be able to reply with another command. Is it possible?

I have read about the Windows msg command but it doesn't work in all the versions of the OS. Is there anything else?

Instead of PuTTY, I would like to use the Linux shell and the Windows cmd.

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That is sort of an instant messaging service, although integrated into the terminal. –  Pavel Šimerda Jul 14 '14 at 17:21

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How about NET SEND {name1 | * | /DOMAIN[:name] | /USERS} message on the windows machine, and echo "message" | smbclient -M name2 on the linux box? name1 and name2 are the netbios names of the machines.

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There is an interesting tool which allows you to execute windows commands from Linux, the name is winexe.

So you can send a message from the same machine to the console just typing: winexe -U domain/user%password --interactive=1 //WindowsMachine "msg console \"Your message goes here.\""

As you can see noleti's answer is much simpler but with winexe you can also open a calc or whatever you want in that machine. We have been using it to do unattenden installs in Windows machines from a batch script in Linux. Pretty cool and time saving...

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On Unix: nc -l 192.168.1.10 32849

On Windows: telnet 192.168.1.10 32849

Where 32849 is an arbitrary port allowed in firewall rules, and the IP is the listening IP of the Unix machine. nc is the netcat utility.

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