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I've seen several references to XP Professional having a telnet server built-in, and the "help and support" section seems to indicate that as well, but I'll be darned if I can find step-by-step instructions on how the heck you enable it after 20 minutes of Googling leading to pages with forums and people asking the same question, usually being given a dead link to the technet database. I tried searching it, but kept getting instructions for server 2003 that say to test it with the command-line telnet command in XP.
I just want a less cumbersome way to shut down my main computer from the laptop on the wired network (the computer's in my bedroom, and I have an ethernet cable rigged so I can access it from the bed as I don't have wireless at home). I want to try telnet as it's less involved than remote desktop, and I can't get " shutdown -m \\slickswintel " to work ( http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-networking/how-do-i-use-the-shutdown-command-to-shut-down/645a45ee-d964-4f87-8c7e-98f446332c0e ).
I thought I'd try telnet. If I can restrict it to traffic from the 192.168.1.X subnet the security concerns shouldn't be an issue. Yes, I'm well aware of the limitations and why Telnet has been replaced by SSH. That would be an issue if I was trying to get in via the internet, rather than a small home network inTRAnet LAN with a router/switch device that handles the internet gateway. That said, I'm not hell bent on telnet, I can easily use Putty for SSH, but if telnet's built in, I'm going to use that. It's not like I'm going to open port 23 on the external firewall, just the 1-room LAN.
So, could somebody give me a link to step-by-step instructions for XP Professional? I don't even remember if I've ever tried to set up telnet on Windows anything (server or workstation, although it's a cinch to set up in Linux (and SSH is just as easy).
My goal is to turn off the computer on the other side of the room without getting up from the bed, so I can stick this laptop on the nightstand and go to sleep with as little fuss as possible.
Before suggesting shutdown -m \\slickswintel, read this:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-networking/how-do-i-use-the-shutdown-command-to-shut-down/645a45ee-d964-4f87-8c7e-98f446332c0e
Anyways, could somebody please give me a link to instructions on how to install and configure telnet server on XP Pro? I tried asking on answers.microsoft.com and they pointed me here.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-networking/how-do-i-enable-telnet-in-windows-xp-professional/e98c23d4-4c0a-4593-95ee-d6c96d35cdb3
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I just want a less cumbersome way to shut down my main computer from the laptop on the wired network (the computer's in my bedroom, and I have an ethernet cable rigged so I can access it from the bed as I don't have wireless at home). I want to try telnet as it's less involved than remote desktop, and I can't get " shutdown -m \\slickswintel " to work ( http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-networking/how-do-i-use-the-shutdown-command-to-shut-down/645a45ee-d964-4f87-8c7e-98f446332c0e ).
I thought I'd try telnet. If I can restrict it to traffic from the 192.168.1.X subnet the security concerns shouldn't be an issue. Yes, I'm well aware of the limitations and why Telnet has been replaced by SSH. That would be an issue if I was trying to get in via the internet, rather than a small home network inTRAnet LAN with a router/switch device that handles the internet gateway. That said, I'm not hell bent on telnet, I can easily use Putty for SSH, but if telnet's built in, I'm going to use that. It's not like I'm going to open port 23 on the external firewall, just the 1-room LAN.
So, could somebody give me a link to step-by-step instructions for XP Professional? I don't even remember if I've ever tried to set up telnet on Windows anything (server or workstation, although it's a cinch to set up in Linux (and SSH is just as easy).
My goal is to turn off the computer on the other side of the room without getting up from the bed, so I can stick this laptop on the nightstand and go to sleep with as little fuss as possible.
Before suggesting shutdown -m \\slickswintel, read this:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-networking/how-do-i-use-the-shutdown-command-to-shut-down/645a45ee-d964-4f87-8c7e-98f446332c0e
Anyways, could somebody please give me a link to instructions on how to install and configure telnet server on XP Pro? I tried asking on answers.microsoft.com and they pointed me here.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-networking/how-do-i-enable-telnet-in-windows-xp-professional/e98c23d4-4c0a-4593-95ee-d6c96d35cdb3
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