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

[Barry Yu]

Agree! after spending  more than 1/2 day digging into all related source 
and info by this list , I do know how Telnet works between M$ O/S and 
Red hat, I could make it work now, also I know the weakness of it plus 
alternative substitutes. Thanks again guys.
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craigwhite at azapple.com wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 17:31, 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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>1 - Telnet bad - use ssh (download putty for Windows client)
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>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
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