UnknownTBeast said:
1st I can't telnet to my router, why? The telnet service is turned
on on my computer.
What do you mean, when you say you can't "telnet to the router"? What fails?
What error do you see? Help us out, a little bit here ...
Telnet is a client/server protocol. Whether or not you have the telnet
service running is irrelevant to whether you can run the telnet client or
make a connection to some other telnet host (such as your router). You would
only run the telnet service if you want to telnet into your Vista box; to
telnet out from your Vista box you only need telnet client.
Are you connecting using IP address or hostname? IP address is more
foolproof, as it bypasses DNS and name resolution issues. So you'd probably
use a command like:
C:\FOO>telnet 192.168.0.1
and press enter (assuming you have a private C Class network configured, and
your router is the default gateway). What happens then?
Secondly when I telnet to my own computer from the same
computer I can get on, but it does not ask me for my password, which I
have
one.
This is normal behaviour. By default, the telnet server on Windows will use
NTLM authentication - it authenticates you, using your user context on
Windows. If you want to disable NTLM authentication, run tlntadmn.exe as
administrator, to turn off NTLM and only use password authentication. Then
you need to type in the password. Note that this is not any more secure (in
fact NTLM will be more secure than clear-text passwords).
Hope it helps,
