Why I cannot connect telnet'?

Question

Hi,
In my office I've two computers in different rooms. One is Win XP and other is Win2003. Both the computers have internet connection. I've enabled telnet in Win2003 and tried to connect from WinXP through Internet. I've disabled the firewall in Win2003. but when i'm giving the ip address of Win2003 to telnet, it display an error message and cannot connect. The message is "could not open connection to the host, on port 23: connect failed".
Anyone please tell me why does it happens?
thanks.

Answer 1

Check the event logs for the server, and make sure the telnet service is running.

Answer 2

If they are in the same building then you wouldn't want to try and connect 2 PC's via the Internet. You don't say how you are trying to connect, whether the PC's use internal private addressing or if they both have external IP's ( unlikely ). But you should be trying to connect using the IP of the other PC in the office. Try pinging it first. If you don't get a reply then you are probably using the wrong IP address.



If the goal is to Telnet to the Win2k3 machine from outside the building via the internet, thats a whole different ball game and requires port forwarding set on your router.

Answer 3

your not adding a port address. the standard port telnet tries to use is port 23.

try

telnet localip 80

ie

telnet 192.168.1.3 80



k?