Re: Telnet

2001-06-21 Thread Dave Young
ummm, if you set the display variable correctly and have an Xserver running on the PC, sure you can. Why anyone would want to is beyond me.. use xterm for shell access and run any gui utils you like by hand. Running a window manager over the network isn't really a pleasant experience... $.02 U

Re: Telnet

2001-06-20 Thread Joel Divekar
Thanks Brett Will surely download CygWin32... anyway I wanted to install it for Perl Regards Joel At 10:44 AM 6/20/2001 -0400, Brett W. McCoy wrote: >On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, SAWMaster wrote: > > > Yes and no. You cannot do it with telnet, but you can get what you want by > > using an x-term clie

Re: Telnet

2001-06-20 Thread Joel Divekar
Thanks SAWMaster (Not your real name I suppose) Will surely give it a try but I am looking for a free software Regards Joel At 09:25 AM 6/20/2001 -0500, SAWMaster wrote: >Yes and no. You cannot do it with telnet, but you can get what you want by >using an x-term client and setting up the ser

Re: Telnet

2001-06-20 Thread Joel Divekar
Thanks Derek Regards Joel At 03:01 PM 6/20/2001 +0100, Derek Harding wrote: >On Saturday 16 June 2001 07:28, Joel Divekar wrote: > > Hi > > > > Hey can we run KDE or Xwindows by telneting to Linux servers ??? > > > > Regards > >Not by telnet but certainly it is possible to run "dumb" terminals

Re: Telnet

2001-06-20 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, SAWMaster wrote: > Yes and no. You cannot do it with telnet, but you can get what you want by > using an x-term client and setting up the server box to allow x connections. > One commercial example of an X-Term client for a windows box would be > X-Win32. Do a search on the

Re: Telnet

2001-06-20 Thread SAWMaster
Yes and no. You cannot do it with telnet, but you can get what you want by using an x-term client and setting up the server box to allow x connections. One commercial example of an X-Term client for a windows box would be X-Win32. Do a search on the net for "X-Win32" and you'll find plenty of in

Re: Telnet

2001-06-20 Thread n6tadam
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:01 PM Subject: Re: Telnet > On Saturday 16 June 2001 07:28, Joel Divekar wrote: > > Hi > > > > Hey can we run KDE or Xwindows by telneting to Linux servers ??? > > > > Regards > > Not by telnet but ce

Re: Telnet

2001-06-20 Thread Derek Harding
On Saturday 16 June 2001 07:28, Joel Divekar wrote: > Hi > > Hey can we run KDE or Xwindows by telneting to Linux servers ??? > > Regards Not by telnet but certainly it is possible to run "dumb" terminals onto a Linux server (Linux Terminal Server Project) so that 486/25 SX processors with 8MB

RE: Telnet

2001-06-20 Thread Joel Divekar
more >specialized connections. > > >-Original Message- >From: Derek Harding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 14 June 2001 16:26 >To: Fco. Javier Valladolid Hdez.; Sally >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Telnet > > >What Javier says

RE: Telnet

2001-06-15 Thread Crowder, Rod
Hdez.; Sally Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Telnet What Javier says is very true about using ssh but if something happens to lock up at the remote computer it can be hard to get out with ssh without resorting to killing processes whereas, if the network is secure from

Re: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 02:38 PM 06/14/2001 -0400, Brett W. McCoy wrote: >On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Mel Matsuoka wrote: > >> IMO, telnet *should* be considered "defunct", except when using it for >> debugging and diagnostic purposes (i.e. telnetting directly to service >> ports). If you (or your server admin) aren't using

Re: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Mel Matsuoka wrote: > IMO, telnet *should* be considered "defunct", except when using it for > debugging and diagnostic purposes (i.e. telnetting directly to service > ports). If you (or your server admin) aren't using SSH, it's about high > time that you should, for security

Re: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 01:59 PM 06/14/2001 -0400, Brett W. McCoy wrote: > >PuTTY is another decent Telent/SSH client, and provides a lot of decent >xterm functionality, including mouse clipbaord support. > Let me chime in to endorse PuTTY as well. It's a fantastic, fast and free (with no strings attached) telnet/ss

Re: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, fliptop wrote: > > Are you assuming I'm running from unix? I'm not I run on windows > > http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html > > here you'll find a program called tera term pro, which is free and runs > on windows. there's also an extension that allows ssh s

RE: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Sally wrote: > Are you assuming I'm running from unix? I'm not I run on windows Telnet has been available on Windows since Windows 95, and you can do these exact same things of things. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/

Re: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread fliptop
Sally wrote: > > Are you assuming I'm running from unix? I'm not I run on windows http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html here you'll find a program called tera term pro, which is free and runs on windows. there's also an extension that allows ssh sessions. this application is m

RE: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Wilson, Tom
You can run telnet from a DOS prompt by entering telnet on the command line. Regards, Tom Wilson -Original Message- From: Sally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:51 AM To: Timothy Kimball; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Telnet Are you assuming I'm ru

RE: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Timothy Kimball
Sally wrote: : Are you assuming I'm running from unix? I'm not I run on windows I just tried it under Windows 2000 and it worked for me. -- tdk

RE: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Sally
Are you assuming I'm running from unix? I'm not I run on windows -Original Message- From: Timothy Kimball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 June 2001 16:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Telnet Derek Harding wrote: : ... I'm not : sure that telnet is defunct, tho

Re: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Timothy Kimball
Derek Harding wrote: : ... I'm not : sure that telnet is defunct, though. Is it? No, it's not. "Defunct" means it no longer exists. Telnet is very definitely alive and well. Though it is insecure for general communications, since it talks directly to any port, it's very handy for debugging web

Re: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Derek Harding
What Javier says is very true about using ssh but if something happens to lock up at the remote computer it can be hard to get out with ssh without resorting to killing processes whereas, if the network is secure from peeking, one can end a telnet session with the "Ctrl-]" combination. I'm not

Re: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Jean-Marc Y. Imbert
OK, just to make it some clearer :-) for those who did not find it most readable, sorry for being native french speaker. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. A protocol is like a language, more or less a set of rules that defines the way two ore more computers exchange data using a network. On

Re: Telnet

2001-06-14 Thread Jean-Marc Y. Imbert
Hi Sally Telnet is a tcp/ip based terminal emulation program. You can open a session on remote hosts and perform actions directly as would you sit in front of the machine working with a console window. Ftp (file transfer protocol) is just one of the dozens of protocols that exist in the tcp/ip pr