How to create a listening server in windows server 2008 to recieve files from linux via nc command?

Question

Right now i have a linux server listening at a port to write whatever comes at that port in a file the following way:

 nc -l -p 7777 0.0.0.0 | tee some.file

And i have a linux client that pushes a file to the server the following way:

cat ZKDB.db | nc 192.168.0.33 7777

Everything works perfectly. But the thing is that i need to replace the linux server with a windows server 2008 equivalent

What command or program can i use in windows server 2008 to achieve the same i did in the linux server?

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Note: the linux client is very old embed system so i don't have much functionalities to hold on to. I barely have telnet, nc, cat, tee, etc.

Answer 1

Windows ports for Netcat do exist and various versions can be found. Below are some that I found.

• Powercat
  This a PowerShell port of netcat, so is maybe the most recent and most likely version to work. You may find a writeup of it here.

• Netcat on sourceforge
  The latest version dates from 2018. Sounds good.

• Netcat by diegocr
  Dating from 2014. May still be useful.

• Netcat by joncraton
  Netcat version 1.11 dating from 2004. May be too old.