Phil Burness wrote:
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.
Why not use SSH?
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 :-)
You can use Putty to SSH from Windows.