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Telnet questions

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Wikkedness

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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

---------------QUESTIONS------------

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
 
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.
 
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 ?
 
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.
 
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