Lo, on Thursday, April 5, Kevin Stokes did write:
> What I'm looking to do is be able to run Telnet on my Windows machines, and
> log into my Linux system across the room and use it, since it would be much
> more comfortable for me.
Well, YMMV, but I find the standard Windows telnet client so bad at
handling Unix terminal emulation that your best bet may be to switch
chairs! :-)
If, in fact, you do want to telnet from Windows to Linux, then the telnetd
package should do you. I'd highly recommend searching the web for a
replacement for Windows telnet, though. (I'd give you a pointer, but I
haven't used Windows seriously in a couple of years now....)
>
> Security is not a huge issue since my local network is sitting behind a
> hardware firewall anyway.
In that case, you're probably OK with telnet. As another poster pointed
out, ssh can do other nifty things like tunneling X sessions or other
arbitrary net traffic, but since your client is Windows, this will be of
limited utility.
Just don't let telnet connections cross your firewall, either incoming or
outgoing.
> Thanks again for the help. I do have another mega-newbie question. I
> was using CONTROL-ALT-DELETE to shutdown my Linux system. Since it
> auto-starts the GNOME stuff now, this no longer does anything. What is the
> command to shut down?
Ctrl-Alt-Del, in my experience, doesn't work within X. Use
ctrl-(left alt)-F[1-6] to switch back to a text console, then
ctrl-alt-del. Alternatively, you can run one of
shutdown -r now
shutdown -h now
as root. These commands reboot or halt the machine, respectively. Or, the
GNOME login widget (gdm) has a System menu, with reboot and halt commands.
Richard
