On Thursday 19 October 2006 19:48, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 19 October 2006 14:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Because he might have devices that only use telnet. Like my two webcams.
For that you need the telnet client, but not the telnet server. You don't need to change xinet to make user of the client.
Well, if he wants to telnet from one box to another, then he needs a server.
And then we're back to "Why do you want to use telnet?" I am on a private network and am too lazy to walk upstairs every time I want to access my Linux machine, so I wanted to be able to telnet in from my laptop downstairs :-) As I'm on a private network security is not an issue, and there is only me usingthe machines, apart from my 7 year old daughter who prints via the Linux box. She hasn't grasped telnet yet.
I now have it working, thanks to the good advice I've received. I enabled telnet in xinetd - it prompted for and installed the telnetd server. I opened port 23 on the firewall. I was then able to telnet in from my laptop using the telnet client in XP. I can now be as lazy as I like :-) Thanks Phil