From Windows to Linux on telnet

coolamit78 · 09-27-2003, 07:46 PM

Hi

I wanna know if its possible to connect to one's own machine (from windows to RedHat 9) using telnet. I guess this will make me access linux from windows directly and enable me to execute commands on my own PC without needing an additional box to test remote login procedures and stuff...

Is this possible? and if it is....do i need to make my linux box a telnet server?

pls help

christer · 09-27-2003, 08:21 PM

Maybe I'm understanding you wrong but I don't think you could login to the Linux OS of your single computer WHILE running in windows. Is that what you're trying to do?

You'd have to be running the Linux OS for the telnet server to be running, but you can't run both at once...

coolamit78 · 09-27-2003, 08:32 PM

ya, that was exactly what i meant to ask...

I realise that a linux telnet server needs to be running in order to accept request from a windows telnet client.

I have just 1 box that has both win98 and RH 9 and i wanted to experiment on all that stuff without buying a new box....

anyways...i know that wont be possible....thanx for replying

gpdahl · 09-27-2003, 09:32 PM

Telnet is not a very secure method for server management. I have been told by many to use ssl.

If you have ssl set up on the linux server, you can use a free software called putty to connect via ssl. You can also use it for telnet if you are so inclined.

Another way to administer your server is with webmin.

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ putty/download.html

www.webmin.com/download.html

amdawi · 09-28-2003, 01:36 AM

use this program in windows to make telnet

Absolute Telnet

rajbaxi · 09-28-2003, 04:20 AM

If you're running Win98 and Linux on the same box, run VirtualPC or VMWare (VMWare is better)

anupghoshal1988 · 12-29-2009, 06:48 AM

[QUOTE=coolamit78;504393]Hi

I wanna know if its possible to connect to one's own machine (from windows to cantos) using telnet. I guess this will make me access linux from windows directly and enable me to execute commands on my own PC without needing an additional box to test remote login procedures and stuff...

Is this possible? and if it is....do i need to make my linux box a telnet server?