You could use ssh. There are a few options here: you could look into using the Perl module Net::SSH, or just install an
OpenSSH server on your windows box ( I use the OpenSSH that comes with
cygwin ) and execute something like this ...
Unix box% ssh windows_box net send 10.120.4.369 a message
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