Sunday, 12 May 2013

How to enable Telnet service on RHEL 6.0

Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection.Telnet can be used even for creating connection between Windows and Linux. Here I will show how to enable telnet in Linux computer.

Open the telnet configuration file using 'vi' text editing tool.

Step 1:

 #vi /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
Here "xinetd" word means X Internet Deamon.
Search for the "disable = yes" & replace it with "disable = no".
Next save file & restart "xinetd" service

Step 2:
#service xinetd restart

Now telnet is enable just go to Windows or Linux. Type
#telnet <IP of the computer>

it will ask user name and password to connect, provide it...enjoy.......................!!


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