Comments on: How do I turn on telnet service on for a Linux / FreeBSD system?

By: pradeep nair

pradeep nair — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:17:46 +0000

sir,
I can connect to unix sco server through pc by using telnet but i am not able to connect it through my hcl thin clients. kindly suggest how do i connect to my unix server through telnet
from my thin clients
thanks a lot in advance

By: shabbir

shabbir — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:01:15 +0000

thanks for your suggestion

By: subh

subh — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:15:47 +0000

can u tell me what is problem while giving my bt login and password it is not allowing to enter giving login failure

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:58:49 +0000

people with the same problem as Swamy and RCruz:
you actually need to do a
sudo apt-get install inetutils-telnetd

By: MUKESH KUMAR YADAV

MUKESH KUMAR YADAV — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:26:35 +0000

=> Click Application > Accessories > Terminal
=> sudo bash
=> apt-get install xinetd telnetd
=> After Downloading this package
=> gedit /etc/inetd.conf
write this syntex in this file
Syntex = telnet stram tcp nowait telnetd /usr/sbin/tcp /usr/sbinin.telnetd
after saving this file
=> service xinetd restart
=> gedit /etc/xinetd.d/telne
service start
{
disable = no
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /user/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
}

=> service xinetd restart
enjoy the telnet service

By: zaheeralam

zaheeralam — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:49:38 +0000

this is very user full for me

By: RCruz

RCruz — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:11:38 +0000

I have the same problem that Swamy.
E: Unable to locate package telnetd.

I have Ubuntu Server 10.10 in a VM over Windows with the network configured in Bridge mode.

Please any help or direction will be welcome.

Thanks in advance.

By: Swamy

Swamy — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:32:39 +0000

I am a Ubuntu user, I am not able to use telnet, please let me know how it works.
I am getting following error …
#sudo apt-get install telnetd

sudo] password for ubuntu:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package telnetd

By: thirisangu

thirisangu — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:55:02 +0000

i was installed windows and Red Hat in bot pc how can i mount the ntfs file in my linux os

By: Rohit

Rohit — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:01:47 +0000

I got the following error while installing xinetd service

Header V3 DSA Signature NOKEY,key ID 37017186

Give me steps to start the telnet service on Red Hat Linux

By: Arun

Arun — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:25:03 +0000

Hi i am not able to enable Telnet service in my PC even i Used sudo apt-get install telnetd command in Ubuntu 9.04, is anything i need to install in the system to enable Telnet in my PC

By: Viknesh S T G M

Viknesh S T G M — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:53:17 +0000

Thanks that was really helpful

By: rameshr

rameshr — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:00:04 +0000

hellow sir i am ramesh bigenner how to configure more than 60 telnet ip address
it wiil be only connecting 40or50 please sent my mail address

By: ankurk

ankurk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:39:46 +0000

i found the aforementioned tips to be really useful…
thank you .

By: mohammad

mohammad — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:07:59 +0000

lot of thanks

By: thepul

thepul — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:05:04 +0000

Your article was really helpful

By: raja

raja — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:58:38 +0000

how to configure more than 100 telnet ip address
it wiil be only connecting 40or50

By: shanmuga

shanmuga — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:12:19 +0000

thank you for your useful configuration

By: A.Ahmed

A.Ahmed — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:07:30 +0000

The above info is very useful… it helped me … so thanks for posting…

By: anilkumar

anilkumar — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:30:58 +0000

inredhat linux i want to telnet config