cross platform telnet question

[Mike Ballon]

Any telneting to linux should just work regardless of OS providing you use
the correct term (ansi/vt100).  IF it doesn't let us know.


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From: "mmn" <mmn at inix.com>
To: "Linux Users Anonymous" <luau at luau.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:22 PM
Subject: [luau] cross platform telnet question


> I'd like to be able to telnet to my Linux box (Mandrake 7.1 Complete
> boxed set  using
> KDE) from my mac and windows box. This is a sort of a first step on the
> long road
> Linux/windows networking via samba.
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> Right now my goal is to establish a simple telnet  connection via
> TCP/IP. On the hardware side Its a direct machine to machine ethernet
> cable link (no hub). As for the terminal software, I have bettertelnet
> and niftytelent (with ssh r3). On the windows side I'll stick to the
> default  telnet app that coems with windows NT and 98.According to
> webmin, I have the telnet server installed and running.
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> The problem is that I'm not sure what I exactly need to configure to
> enable  telnet from non *nix machines. All the books I've read breifly
> mention telnet and they all assume that you are telneting from one *nix
> box to another. I've used telnet like this for years but when it comes
> to setting it up on my own Linux box I'n not sure whare to start. any
> pointers on what is involved?
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