Unable to connect to embedded telnet server

[Stephen Woolhead]

So I am quite new at all this embedded stuff, but I have my XPe image
running, it's a little larger than I would have liked ~55Mb for something
with networking, minilogon and a command prompt shell, but it's not bad.

The one problem I have is that I can not get the telnet server to work.
It's installed and running but when I try to connect I get the following
message
------------
Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Service

login: administrator
password:
Failure in initializing the telnet session. Shell process may not have been
launched.

Telnet Server has closed the connection

Connection to host lost.
------------

Anyon please point me at what I am doing wrong? I am sure that it is
something simple!

Also whats the simplest command that I can use to see how much runtime
memory my XPe image is using?

Thanks

Stephen.

 

[Stephen Woolhead]

Should add that I do not have this problem when I replace minilogon with
winlogon, but that is more than want (another 20Mb on the image size).

Will the telnet server work without winlogon?

STephen

 

[KM]

Stephen,

I think if you need Telnet Server to run properly you need to switch to
Winlogon since "Telnet server has an undeclared dependency on Winlogon and
will display the same error as yours if you use Minlogon.". Here is the old
thread with MS guys response on the problem:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Telnet+Service+Failure+in+initializing+the
+telnet+session+group:microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF
-8&group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded.*&selm=7ce41dc5.0305051521.4e3d
ff3e%40posting.google.com&rnum=1.

KM

PS. Btw, if it is possible you may want to monitor (Regmon/Filemon) your
image to see what components are missing to run Telnet Server. You may be
able to figure this out not adding WinLogon component.

SW> Should add that I do not have this problem when I replace minilogon
SW> with winlogon, but that is more than want (another 20Mb on the image
SW> size).

SW> Will the telnet server work without winlogon?

SW> STephen






With best regards, KM. E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Stephen Woolhead]

Thanks for that, at least I know where I stand now!

Stephen

 

[RussR]

I am in the same situation. I need a system that has command shell,
minlogon, networking and also telnet administration. The problem is that
Winlogon adds like 20-30mb, but more importantly increases boot time by a
lot since my target device is only 300mhz processor.

I wouldn't mind adding Winlogon, but the delay in the time it takes to start
up is not acceptable. Is there any way to keep Minlogon and have telnet
administration? Stephen were you able to find what components are required
for telnet administration so we can just add those instead of Winlogon?

Thanks

 

[Maarten]

Hi,

To connect to the telnet server the system password cannot
be empty. You can set this in the Administrator account
component (cmiUserPassword)

hth

Maarten