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For questions about Telnet, a protocol for bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication with remote hosts via virtual terminals. It is defined in RFC 854.

Telnet is a protocol for bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication with remote hosts via virtual terminals. It is defined in RFC 854.

Telnet provides no inherent security and so is becoming less commonly supported. On modern UNIX-like systems it is usually replaced with more secure and flexible SSH protocol.

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show users connected to windows telnet server

I can't believe how bad I am at googling windows stuff. How can I list the users connected via telnet to a windows machine? It seems such a basic question, yet I couldn't find a answer. X-( Also, after I list the users, is there a way to kill a…
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SMTP Server setting on Windows 2008 R2

I am very very new to this and just trying to configure SMTP virtual server. I have followed a few threads to get it all running, but the mails are not being delivered. What I have done so far - 1) Install SMTP server. 2) SMTP server…
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Better telnet tool on Windows

When I need to check whether a firewall rule has been opened or whether a service is up and running, I usually run a telnet test, basically "telnet 192.168.1.50 80" for e.g. If a firewall is dropping packets in between, I would get a timeout and if…
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Having to restart xinetd service to connect via telnet

In my environment I have a linux server running CentOS 5. I have setup a telnet service on this server in order to connect via telnet. However, after some time I try to connect and I get this error: This session is no longer connected. Once I…
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SSH/ Telnet PAM configuration

How do I configure maximum number of login attempts before the session is dropped for SSH/telnet in PAM?
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Passwordless remote access to a restricted shell

For, um, historic reasons, we have a C program for HPUX which accepts telnet connections, and runs a home-grown REPL that restricts the commands available. Rather than port this code to Linux, I'd like to get effectively the same functionality using…
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Override screen size in linux telnet

Here's my predicament. I'm developing a perl telnet script that uses Expect to spawn a new telnet process and feed data (non-interactively) into it. Everything works fine when I call the script from a terminal - however, if I start the script from…
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How to set telnet start after every reboot in suse 11sp3 x64

I have an issue on sles 11sp3x64 with telnet, if i reboot the machine telnet service not starting automatically. again i have to do service restart manually. is there any way to start automaticaly after every reboot. Thanks,
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Can Telnet to port 21 but not 25, 110

I am running postfix and dovecot on my Centos Mail server. Now I can send mail from the server to the outside, BUT I cannot receive mail from the outside. TELNET: When I telnet to my ip address to port 21, it connects, but when doing it for port 25…
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Unable to telnet to a Windows 7 client on port 9102 while setting up Bacula

I'm trying to setup Bacula for all my work machines. Most of my machines are Linux (Ubuntu) based and I have successfully managed to setup Bacula on those machines. However, I do have several Windows 7 machines as well and I'm unable to connect to…
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SSH on FreeBSD 8.1 sshd is not running

After reading many pages of documentation and articles on how to telnet or SSH into FreeBSD as root, none have given me a solution that actually works. I am looking for a how-to-remote-into this FreeBSD in less than 10 easy steps. Current state I…
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Telnet server on linux redhat - deletes char, shifts on terminal console

When I open telnet client from local or remote console, I get damaged output in console like below example: -welcome screen appears properly (also when I put some text into nss. -1st char of words ( localhost, password ,last login... ) is…
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Some machines in my network can't access a specific website

Something pretty bizarre is happening here. I'm try to access a website from some machines inside my network and I just can't, while other machines access it normally. The website is online.sefaz.am.gov.br. In order to rule out all browser-related…
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telnet on port 1433 not working

telnet some_ip 1433 On Windows 7 this line doesn't work. It says it cannot establish connection. I'm 100% percent sure that the server has this port open. For a friend of mine this line works. I suspect 2 reasons: My ISP blocks this port. My…
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Logging into mail server works through telnet but fails though imap(s) (Dovecot+MySQL)

I have followed the ISPMail tutorial on how to set up a Debian mail server. I can log into the dovecot server through telnet like this: [root@{hostname}: /home/{user}]# telnet {hostname}.{TLD} 143 Trying 127.0.1.1... Connected to…
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