telnet just won't work!

[Denver Osborn]

here's what I need some help with(doing everything remotely)

I have a windows box with a telnet server running at home, able to connect to it fine. From the PC I can telnet to my hpux 11i box on the same network. That's my problem, I can only connect to it from my PC. I'm in Germany, so unable to get at the console. The most I can do from here is telnet to the pc, then ftp to the hpux box. It'd be easy to troubleshoot if I could just telnet to the hpux box from the pc's telnet session.. but windows pops up a seperate 'telnet' window that I can't see in the current pc shell.

-thought maybe my isp's dns caused connection timeout, moved resolv.conf to tmp. no change.

Any suggestions?

[Bill Hassell]

telnet between company networks is never easy. The (sane) standard is for a company's firewall to deny *any* incoming telnet connection (as well as Xwindows, ftp and a bunch or other network services. You'll have to contact your ISP and your company's network managers to determine accessibility. Some companys will allow ssh connections, still others require a supported VPN solution.

[John Payne_2]

It looks like maybe you are restricting telnet via /var/adm/inetd.sec? If so can you change it? I am only supposed to connect from home via ssh or vpn. If you add the entry for another subnet into the file, you need to get inetd to re-read it's configuration file by running 'inetd -c'

Also, if the PC on the same network is Win XP, that OS has something called a 'remote client connection' software, where when enabled, you can connect into that machine from another XP machine. Then you can connect into the same subnet and telnet over.

Hope it Helps

John

[Wodisch_1 · Accepted solution]

Hello Denver,

why don't you simply copy the CYGWIN binary of the TELNET client to your PC?
Then you can run telnet from your telnet client in germany to the telnet server on the PC, and using that CYGWIN telnet client you can connect to the telnet server of th HPUX box.

I just tried the binary a minute ago in a "DOS prompt" window and it worked fine - no window, no popup, etc.

And I would think about installing VNC server on that PC!

HTH,
Wodisch

[Denver Osborn]

I'd been looking for a command prompt telnet program and finally found a binary that worked. (cygwin and kermit-95 were looked at) So I can atleast telnet to the hpux box now... now all I need to do is figure out what's misconfigured.

Thanks!
-denver