Hallo ! Sie schrieben am Donnerstag, den 01. Dezember 2005: > > > >Because on some of the windows boxes in my college there is no putty or > >ssh client... > > Maybe u should get them to download putty. Telnet isnt that secure. Anyway, > just start up the telnet daemon and it should be fine > So you want to connect to your computer at home from a public computer at the college via telnet ? I wouldn't recommend doing that even with ssh just in case someone installed a keyboard sniffer on that machine. Transmitting clear-text passwords with telnet just asks for trouble. Karsten -- Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> GPG 1024D/70ABD02C Fingerprint D2D4 3B6B 2DE4 464C A432 210A DFF8 A140 70AB D02C Red Hat Deutschland, Hauptstaetter Str.58 70178 Stuttgart, Tel.+49-711-96437-0, Fax +49-711-96437-111