Sounds like a helpful troubleshooting method but what were the security
risks? Thoughts, anyone?
Priscilla
At 10:31 PM 1/17/01, J Roysdon wrote:
>Today I was a site w/o internet access, but I needed to get Cisco into it to
>save time relaying commands and information. I had a dial-up connection out
>to my ISP, and then thought about the built-in Telnet server that Windows
>2000 Professional has. I made a quick guest account for Cisco, and told
>them my dial-up IP, which they could connect to, and then once telnetted
>into my workstation, they were able to telnet out my NIC to the routers they
>needs to get to. Only catch is that you can only have one session up
>through it (enough for us):
>
>Microsoft (R) Windows (TM) Version 5.00 (Build 2195)
>Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Service
>Telnet Server Build 5.00.99201.1
>login: cisco
>password: *****
>Microsoft Windows Workstation allows only 1 Telnet Client License
>Server has closed connection
>
>When they were done, I just disabled the Cisco account. Rather handy now
>that I have it. I've run into a lot of troubleshooting where it was a real
>pain not to have internet access for Cisco to get in (or I didn't control
>the customer's firewall, etc.).
>
>After a successful telnet:
>*===============================================================
>Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Server.
>*===============================================================
>C:\>telnet 192.168.45.253
>Connecting To 192.168.45.253...
>
>
>
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