aximbigfan

i had to telnet into one of my servers just now. i am on my vista box and so i opened the start menu then accessories expecting to find the command prompt. nope, so i did a search and finally found it. i typed "telnet ****" and it printed an error saying that it couldn't find "telnet" i though maybe i did something wrong so i typed again "telnet ****" still nothing. how stupid. i guess now i have to go find putty in my installer repository. you would think that in the "next gen" os ms would have included a simple telnet client.


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radimus

took about 3 seconds to google the answer

http://www.google.com/search?q=vista...e=utf8&oe=utf8

and the first hit is:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...14636&SiteID=1

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aximbigfan

yeah, but i mean it is only a few mb at most, they could have just had it reinstalled.
anyway, putty is working fine for right now.


chris

Grentz

You can just add it back in.

They removed it to keep things simple as normal people do not tend to use telnet :p

Another thing on the list of easy things to do to customize Vista for power users :)

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Stop picking on ABF Andre.. :P
I think his spelling has improved a lot!

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netsyd

Reality is like Grentz said - most if not all normal users have absolutely no use for Telnet. Let's be perfectly honest here, as a power user you shouldn't be using it either for anything short of testing the protocol stack.

You know as well as anybody else here ABF - ssh :)

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Originally Posted by netsyd

Reality is like Grentz said - most if not all normal users have absolutely no use for Telnet. Let's be perfectly honest here, as a power user you shouldn't be using it either for anything short of testing the protocol stack. You know as well as anybody else here ABF - ssh :)

the reason im usign telnet and not ssh is that my network is secure enough to use telnet. ssh takes too long to set up and it really only gives you the benifit of security. telnet is fine for my needs...


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