Telnet...

Heres one of the few topics where I have a vague knowledge of something...

I have been hearing lately about people trying to use telnet to access websites. This isn't going to work, Telnet is a program used to gain remote administrator access to a computer.

Telnet uses a computers ports to connect to the machine. The default telnet port is 23. First we will need to get to the telnet screen. The easiest way to do this is to go to the command prompt by clicking Start->Run->type "command" or "cmd"(if in WinXP). When you get to the command prompt you should see this:

C:\>_

There may be more folders such as:

C:\Documents and Settings\Colin>_

It will still work.


At the prompt type telnet iraq.org...

C:\>telnet iraq.org

...and hit enter. You should see:

--------------------------
FreeBSD/i386 (arabinfo.org) (ttyp0)

login:_

As you can probably guess, you cant log in if you dont know the username and password.
Say we did know the username and password, we would type them in, and we would get command prompt access to the computer. This allows you to install/uninstall software, run programs, and do pretty much anything you can do at a MS-DOS command prompt.

You can do this entire process from the bash prompt in linux, but I'm not as familiar with linux as I am with Windows.

This was a very basic telnet tutorial, but as it is 1:36am, I am exhausted and I don't want to type a whole lot. You can get more information about telnet by typing "telnet /?" at the command prompt.

have fun,
Colin