uhhh - that's "MR CHRIST" to you sir. Yes OF COURSE I telnet to my servers. I do so inside a secure network from desktops that are locked down tighter than gold in Swiss Banks. Since I don't have every little thing browser enabled on my servers, and IT has not seen fit to distribute Putty to every desktop, just how pray tell do you suggest I get to them from the CEO's secretary's desktop????????? Heck I can't even use "run" at the start menu to start telnet - they have that disabled as well. I have to start a cmd window and do it from there. Not of all us work for Red Hat or live off of university grants or own our own software firm. Some of us have to take orders from folks who know a heck of a lot less technically than we do, and who are five times more paranoid about letting employees even use the calculator bundled with Windows. My use of "Cygwin" itself on corporate servers is "unofficial" and "unsupported" and exists only with wink and nod approval by managers who will disavow all knowledge if ever asked by the wrong people. But in this "brave new economy" new software budgets are becoming smaller than the price of a Happy Meal at McDonald's. So the managers in the know are secretly VERY thankful for software like cygwin that with a little ingenuity and resourcefulness can do the job that otherwise would require ten's or even hundred's of thousands of dollars spent on third party software - with all the attendant license's, maintenance, etc etc etc. In fact some sanctioned software is being discreetly discarded for open source because no can find $10,000 for a maintenance renewal.
Yes - it's 2003 my friend - but try explaining that to a "technical lead" who interrupts you mid-sentence and asks you with child-like naivety: What's ping?? Anyway - thank's for the advice, I'll play with it and see if I get the desired result. BK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorsten Kampe Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 6:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Native Microsoft Telnet Client Blows Past the Password Prompt * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2003-06-14 12:26 +0200) > I've looked through the archives and have not seen a write-up on this. I > have the very latest cygwin everything installed on an MS 2000 Server. > TERM=cygwin is set in the profile. Running the telnetd daemon with > inetutils. I have absolutely no problems connecting to this service with > any client program except the native one that comes with every copy of MS > 2000. The native one that comes with every earlier copy of MS Windows - 95, > 98, NT4 works just fine. When I use the Native MS 2000 telnet I get the > following output: > [...] > > Essentially, it just blows right past the password prompt without pausing - > apparently taking null as the password. This renders the MS 2000 Telnet > client completely useless for direct telneting. For most I imagine this not > a problem or even annoyance because probably just about every other client > in existance works just fine. The problem for me, is that I work for a > large organization, and I like the flexibility of being able to plop down > at desktop anywhere - more than 5000 desktops - and telnet to any of the > servers I manage and run scripts, do diagnosis, etc. Jesus, it's 2003 and you're telnetting into your servers... > Are these known problems, or am I missing something "REALLY" simple here? > Is there something I can change to fix this? unset ntlm Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/