On Sunday 11 January 2004 07:55, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 17:31, Barry Yu wrote: > > When I am in Windows 2k I could use Telnet to remote host Red Hat 9 and > > have command controll over it. But when I tried to use Telnet from the > > same Red Hat 9 machine to Telnet to same W2k machine, I was getting > > Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused. Can someone help? > > Tks. > > ---- > 1 - Telnet bad - use ssh (download putty for Windows client) > > 2 - telnet client to Windows telnet server (port 23) uses NTLM > authentication which isn't going to be provided by anything other than > another Windows computer that is registered to the domain. If you look > at the 'dependencies' of the telnet service in Administrative > Tools/Services, you will see the requirement. There may be a way to > disable that in local security policy or in the registry but I don't > know of a way to do that. > > Craig There's NTLM in the new mozilla (1.6), but there's no such thing for telnet AFAIK, at least for now. -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev
