Question : how we can send message from server to CLIENT Comptuers ?

we are using server 2003 as a domain controller and for users windows xp. kindly suggest me how we can send messages from server to windows for announcements.

thanks

its urgent

Answer : how we can send message from server to CLIENT Comptuers ?

You can use the built-in msg.exe (XP and later, replaced "net send" completely in Vista) to do that; enter msg.exe in a command window for details.
Unfortunately enough, though, to send messages to XP clients, you first have to change the registry, otherwise you'll get an "Access denied".
Go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server, add the REG_DWORD value "AllowRemoteRPC", and set it to 1.
To send a message to several machines, create a list of those machines and then use a for loop to send:
for /f %a in (MachineList.txt) do msg /server:%a * "Warning: The server will be rebooted in 15 minutes!"
You can of course save this as a batch file (broadcast.cmd or whatever.cmd), so that you'd only have to enter the message as in "net send":
broadcast "Server going down now!"

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@echo off for /f %%a in (MachineList.txt) do ( echo Sending to %%a ... msg.exe /server:%%a * %* )

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