Telnet questions

[Wikkedness]

I've recently become interested in remote logins so I got into learning Telnet. I have a pretty good idea of how to use it but I just need some questions answered

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1 - Is it true that I need some kind of login name before I can use Telnet... like login to some type of system and then go about my business on Telnet?

2- What do you need to login into a computer... for example. Let's just say I wanted to login into my personal computer from florida(I live in New York) and I had the computer on with a broadband modem... What information would I need to give to Telnet besides my IP and port

3- Whats the deal with ports. I know what they are I just don't understand which one to connect to and/or how to use them in Telnet

Thanks guys

 

[everman]

You don't need an account on the computer you're connecting to if it's configured that way. (misconfigured?) I mean, you could setup an account on a server for yourself and use that to access a directory remotely or other services, And different services use different ports.

I'd use ssh though, telnet isn't exactly secure. If you just wanted to transfer files, take a look at winscp. http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/ I've only used it on linux boxen myself, really easy.

oh and you might have some fun with this too.

 

[everman]

connection trouble double post

 

[htmlmasterdave]

I second that, if you can avoid it at all, don't use telnet... it's horribly insecure.

 

[Wikkedness]

ok ... thanks for that. It's late so I'll check that out tomorrow morning.

This might actually come out sounding evil-er than I want it to but I don't mean it that way for those who are thinking it. Lets just say I wanted to help my friend fix his computer. What information would I need to login to his/her computer from SSH or Telnet ?

 

[everman]

If you want to remotely login to fix someone's windows pc, you can try VNC which is pretty nice for that kinda stuff. XP Pro also has a remote desktop feature. For VNC they need to run the server and you connect with the client.