From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 14: 3:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FAD414F95 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA00550; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:03:23 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Rami Soudah Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet Win-box Message-ID: <19990623140323.A11951@cpl.net> References: <3771BB81.E14084FE@index.com.jo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <3771BB81.E14084FE@index.com.jo>; from Rami Soudah on Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 10:00:49PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Greetings > > I have 2 PC's connected, one is bsd other win98. > I can do 'telnet' from win to bsd, but not from bsd to win > When I try to run the telnet command from the bsd box, > I keep getting the msg "telnet: unable to connect to remote > host: connection refused", but i can ping the win-box from the > bsd-box. > what could be wrong? > how could i enable the telnet services in win-box? You cannot telnet into a windows box without special software, such as a telnet daemon. You cannot "enable" this, Windows does not come with telnet. Maybe there is a freeway telnet client available, although im not sure how much you could do with telnet into a win box... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message