Investigate ssh as vbe suggested. ssh can not only create connections between machines (analogous to telnet) but also execute commands on other machines, like rsh/rexec. You will have to find out if Windoze is able to originate commands like his (i have no idea), but if it is this would be a viable way to do it.

The procedure would be:

1. set up ssh on Windows and AIX servers

2. create an ssh-key on the AIX machine and put that into the authorized_keys file on the Windows machine you want to execute commands on. On AIX the file would be ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the home-directory of the user under whose id the command should be executed. What the analogous file on the Windows-machine is you will have to find out yourself.

3. Try to originate a command on the AIX machine:

ssh user@windows-machine "dir"

If everything works as planned you should get a directory listing from the Windows-server.

I hope this helps.

bakunin