I was given a old as dirt celeron 333 pc. I loaded 128 of ram in it and a 8gb hd and loaded slackware 8.0 on it. I was wondering because i am at work and i cant really test this theory of mine but, if i wanted to telnet into the box all i have to do is have it up and running with a ip address and then open up a dos promt on my xp machine and do this
c:\> Telnet 192.168.2.45

then type in the username and password. Or do i have to set up the box to use telnet?

That should be all you have to do. Are you unable to connect?

i just tired it i askes me to log in i use root as the user name and my password for root and it wont let me in. whys that?

The default for I believe unix (atleast slack) you can not telnet in as root. You can telnet in as a normal user than su to root. You have to change a config file in /etc to beable to telnet as root

Your right i got in with a new user i created thanks now i can do linux stuff on the fly without logging out on my main box
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do you guys know if there is a way to get x windows system to work on telnet as well

If you are telneting in from a windows box you should check out putty. Its a free telnet/ssh client that is alot better than using the windows telnet program

Zarnce

And you really should dump telnet and switch to ssh anyway. Telnet is horribly unsecure.

What you should do is use ssh - it should automatically be configured, and the same applies to loggin in as root. ssh is much more secure than telnet. Then, if you want an x windows system, then tunnel X over ssh. You must first have an X server running on your work computer.
If you don't want to tunnel applications over ssh, then try vnc. That you can view in a web browser, or even tunnel it over ssh to make it more secure. Check out realvnc for more details
hth,
andy

Yeah this post provided me with some good info.
but i have a few questions in regards to telnet.
I have finally configured the slackware box at home for telnet.
I have one issue.
what address should I be using to telnet from a remote location with.
i set up port forwarding.
I can telnet from my internal lan ip, but if i try my wan ip address it goes to the modem.
i have a wan ip, wan gateway, dns#1, dns#2, and a lan ip.
is there a particular address i should be using?

If you are trying to access from outside your LAN, you need to point to your WAN ip address. That's the only one the outside world could find. You are right that it gets you to your modem, so you have to have that computer set up to forward telnet traffic to your slackware box.


And just to be a broken record, telnet is horribly insecure. If you are accessing from a remote location, use ssh instead.

To move files around from a Windows PC try WinSCP, now version 3.55

I already set up port forwarding.
Is there something else I need?
Can I telnet through dhcp?

As long as you have your IP addresses straight, dhcp shouldn't cause a problem. However, if you have set up port forwarding and the IP address of the telnet server doesn't match the target of the port forwarding, you will definitely have a problem. So basically, you need to check on the following:

You have the right WAN IP address
Your modem is forwarding port 23 to the correct LAN IP address
Your telnet server is actually up and running

If you are having trouble, please post details about what you are doing and what you are seeing.

As posted above: please use ssh instead of telnet

telnet=bad (clear text passwords--many exploits)
shh=ok (a few exploits but has great encryption)

I can confirm that Both putty and winscp work with my slack "current" box without any setup. Block port 22 at the firewall, you are asking to be sniffed if you use telnet.