telnetd

[william drescher]

On 7/16/2010 11:12 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> william drescher wrote:
>> I want to login to my ubuntu server from within my LAN from a
>> winBlows XP machine.
>> I tried telnet and received the error message: Connection refused.
>>
>> Do I need to install telnetd or configure it ?
>
> No, you need to start the openssh server/configure it to start and also
> install putty on Windows XP. telnet is perhaps not so good an idea but
> if you want telnet and forego installing putty, then install and start
> telnetd.
>
thanks for the suggestion.
PuTTY just fine
bill