Telnet on Win2K3

[HydrasunGQ]

we need some developers to be able to telnet to some of our servers but for some reason the server is not allowing telnet connections. I tried to telnet locally on the box and it wont allow connections. Can anyone help me figure out what configuration do I need to allow them. I already enabled the telnet service on the box.

 

[HydrasunGQ]

seems as though my port 1433 is not open. I did a netstat -an and win2k3 is not listening on this port.

 

[KaosDG]

telnet runs on port 23 (standard)

also, did you make them members of the TelnetClients (or whatever) group?
check the settings via tlntadmn?

 

[M11]

Because telnet is a seriously bad idea from a security standpoint, it is disabled by default. Have you enabled it?

 

[enforcer17]

You have to enable the Telnet service in Administrative Tools - Services, because it's disabled by default as M11 already said.

 

[versello]

Did you guys not read the original poster saying " I already enabled the telnet service on the box"?

 

[enforcer17]

All you need to do is enable the service for it to work. If it's already done, then you either did something wrong or the machine has a problem. If you are trying to telnet remotely, make sure all your VPN, firewall, etc settings are correct.