Send message to another Computer through Network via CmdLine

Question

I would like to send from a server ( Windows 2008 R2) a pop up message to another Computer in the Network (Windows 7). I already enable AllowRemoteRPC in the registry of my Windows 7 system. This cmd works if I send a message from my Windows 2008 R2 Server to another Windows 2003 Server:

msg /server:vcs.view.local user1 test

or even the other way round

msg /server:20.1.1.30 user2 test

by the time I want to send a message to the Win7 sytem I got this exception: "Error 5 getting session names" Pinging to the Win7 IP works fine

Solution

Try sending the message to both the users pc AND the users username at the same time. For instance(from the server 2008 box):

msg /server:thepc theuser "This is a test"

Comments

[andreaspfr]

I tried that and It also did not work

[andreaspfr]

I'm still getting the error message "Error 5 getting session names"

[Dave Cousineau]

even msg * /server:thepc doesn't work for me, unless I target my own workstation