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How do I enable telnet in Windows XP Professional?

Anonymous
2012-01-04T02:25:39+00:00

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 Yes, I'm well aware of the limitations and why Telnet has been replaced by SSH.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.

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

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-02-05T20:29:40+00:00

    I found this, which worked:

    http://www.petri.co.il/enable\_telnet\_on\_windows\_2003.htm

    The key line was "tlntadmn config sec=-NTLM"

    I don't understand why I needed to disable NTLM authentication when both computers were running Windows XP Professional, that had been upgraded to SP3. They were on the same switch as well. The stateless firewall on the router/switch only works on inbound connections from the external (internet) interface, and I'm pretty sure it's more of a NAT feature as it only looks at TCP vs UDP and the port number..

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-01-05T02:31:41+00:00

    What's the purpose of these forums if you keep referring me to that one?

    Heck, I got referred over there for asking how to use DiskCopy in XP, which used to be a command that every MS-DOS user knew by heart as copying disks was a routine task in 1989. Yes, the syntax for the diskcopy command on a single drive system is different in Windows XP Professional than it is in MS-DOS 3.30.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-01-06T01:01:09+00:00

    I got my first computer in 1988 (an Apple IIGS), although it was technically the family computer. I'm not sure when it became mine, but I was the only one who knew how to use it. My parents had to ask me for help every time they wanted to write a letter in AppleWorks.

    It wasn't until 1990 that I got a PC Transporter card for that system that turned it into an XT clone in some ways similar to dual-booting Linux and Windows today.  That had MS-DOS 3.30, and I didn't get a hard drive until 1992. Diskcopy was VERY important..

    It was also commonly used to copy disks in the era, as it could copy a mostly full disk faster than xcopy, although if copying a disk less than half full xcopy was better unless it was bootable. Hence why I thought it was a basic command. Perhaps I'm just showing my age.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-01-05T11:49:58+00:00

    The technet forums are for more advanced topics than a typical user would have, which is why it has "itpro" in its link.

    Many of those working at MS were not born before 1989 (or were still in diapers, sans computers), so you may be speaking gibberish to some.

    steve

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-01-04T14:38:56+00:00

    Hi,

    I would suggest you to post the issue in this forum and check if it helps:

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/itproxpsp/threads

    Hope it helps.

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