Connecting Via Telnet - Windows 2000/XP
SSH (Secure SHell) is recommended over telnet as a more secure way of interacting with the server. A guide on setting up PuTTY, a stand-alone application that can do both telnet and SSH, can be found here.
If you are using Microsoft Windows, you already have a telnet client installed on your computer. This quick tutorial will show you how to connect to your account via the Windows telnet client.
This guide is based on Windows 2000 (and the steps will also apply to XP -- just the buttons and menus may be a little prettier). For a tutorial on using telnet on Microsoft 9x, please see Connecting Via Telnet - Windows 98.
Click the Start button from your Windows taskbar.
Select and click on the Run option.
Type in the word telnet followed by your domain name without the "www." part. Click OK.
You should now have your telnet client open and you should see a short welcome message that will also contain your server's name. In this image the server we are connected to is the RASMUS server. You will see a prompt asking for your account username (login):
Type your account username, using all lowercase letters, and then hit the Enter key:
Next you will be prompted for your account password. You will not be able to see your password as you type it in so it is up to you to make sure you type it exactly as it should be. Remember that your password is CasE-SenSiTIvE (meaning "password" is not the same as "Password"). Once you have typed in your password, hit the Enter key.
If you have done everything correctly, you will be at the telnet prompt while logged in to your account. The prompt will look something like the following (where username reflects your own account username and Rasmus is replaced by the name of the server to which you are connected):
[username@FQ-Rasmus:~ ]$
Now that you are connected to the server, you will need to issue commands to tell the server what you want to do. You can find a list of Common Unix/Linux Commands Used Via Telnet/SSH at:
http://service.FutureQuest.net/kb43
Happy telnetting!
Note: SSH (Secure SHell) is recommended over telnet as a more secure way of interacting with the server. A guide on setting up PuTTY, a stand-alone application that can do both telnet and SSH, can be found here.
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