Using Telnet and getting message - Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

[Barry Yu]

When I activate the Telnet in W2k, the communication between Red Hat 9 
and W2k is now working both direction now, thanks for the advice.
and I will try VNC as surak advice - Thanks too.
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felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 01:31, Barry Yu wrote:
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>>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.
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>Windows doesn't enable the Telnet service by default. You'll need to
>enable the Telnet service, then start it up. Also, if you're using the
>Internet Connection Firewall, sure any incoming traffic targeted to port
>23 is allowed.
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>Also, as a security measure, I don't recommend you using telnet at all.
>Either when connecting to RHL9 or W2K, you're sending your username and
>password in clear text (i.e., not cyphered) where it can be easily
>captured. I would use a more secure remote access service, like SSH, or
>a Kerberized telnet client and server (which Windows lacks).
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