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Telnet Problem
Name: Truc Nguyen Date: February 22, 2005 at 10:12:49 Pacific OS: Win 2000 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I have 2 Linux machines and 1 Win 2000 machine. They can ping each other, but they can not telnet each other. What goes wrong in my set up ?
Name: iamc Date: February 22, 2005 at 12:54:10 Pacific
Reply:
Obvious answer: they are not running telnet servers.
Beyond that, please provide more details. Are any of the machines running telnet servers? What do the telnet server logs say? Are there firewalls in place?
All that being said, why are you using telnet anyway? SSH is available for Linux and Windows platforms and is almost always a better choice than telnet. Unless you have a pretty good reason to be using telnet, I would strongly suggest you use ssh instead.
Summary: Friends I have 2 machines.. from which I need to telnet to an mail server through SMTP port. From Machine A (154.13.18.34), I am able to telnet the mail Server (210.145.92.5) through port 25. Same pol...
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