Telnete on Peer to Peer

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I have peer to peer network with couple of computers which all are XP Pro.

When I telnet a PC, I get this message "Connecting to PC1 failed... Could
not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed"

What I need to do in order to make it work.

I use command line interface then type "telnet" then "open" and enter
hostname.
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

JohnSmith1 said:
I have peer to peer network with couple of computers which all are XP
Pro.

When I telnet a PC, I get this message "Connecting to PC1 failed...
Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed"

What I need to do in order to make it work.

I use command line interface then type "telnet" then "open" and enter
hostname.

What are you trying to test? If you don't provide a specific port number, a
telnet command tries to connect using its default port of 23, but that isn't
likely a relevant port to you.

If you want to see whether you could get to a website/HTTP, go to a command
prompt (start | run | cmd <enter>) and type

telnet blah.blah.com 80 <enter>
or
telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 80 <enter>

If you wanted to see if you could telnet to a POP3 server, you'd use 110
instead of 80. If you wanted to see if you could get to an SMTP server,
you'd use 25. Etc.

So, we get back to the issue of, what exactly is it you're trying to do, or
test? What is "listening" on the remote machine you're trying to connect to?
To set up a workgroup/home/small office network, you don't need to do a
telnet, try a "ping" - and make sure the firewalls are configured to allow
the traffic you want. If you're trying to make file/print sharing work,
that's something you can just tick as anexception in the Windows firewall;
you don't need to worry about ports (although that uses135 & 139).
 

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