IP Messenger not working in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Solution 1:

After spending lot of efforts, I've found two solutions:

1. Wine

Install wine to run IPMsg.exe on ubuntu. But it has a problem while transferring files. Ubuntu system can only receive files form IPMsg if its running using wine. While sending files from Ubuntu to Windows based IPMsg it will show 0KB file size and it will not allow you to receive any files.

So if you are just looking for non-file transfer solution. Just install wine and run IPMsg.exe.

2. iptux (Preffered solution)

This is the solution I've used finally. Installed iptux in my ubuntu system and its all working now. I can send files to windows users who are using IPMsg.exe.

$ sudo apt-get install iptux

• Sending file from IPMsg (Windows system) to iptux(Ubuntu system)

• Receiving file at iptux (Ubuntu system)

Update: Sometimes iptux also unable to send file from Linux system to any other. In such case please try transferring directory instead files. It works.