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

Doncho N. Gunchev mr700 at globalnet.bg
Mon Jan 12 14:16:14 UTC 2004


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






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