Before anyone else mentions it - please add the
"use NET::Telnet" in the example.
I told you it was untested. ;-)
Carter.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carter Thompson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:22 AM
> To: Jitendra Soam; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: NET::Telnet
>
>
>
>
>
> The Prompt is a regular expression that matches the
> commandline prompt from the remote shell. That means
> you'll want to match the prompt for the user you are
> logging in as. If I log into one of my remote windows
> machines through a telnet server and I see I have a
> prompt like so, "C:/" I'll need to match that within
> my code as prompt.
>
> If the prompt isn't matched in the time specified in
> Timeout then the script will either return false or
> die based on what Errmode is set to, return or die
> respectively.
>
> NET::Telnet Defaults:
> Timeout = 10
> Host = "localhost"
> Errmode = "die"
> Prompt = "/[\$%#>]$/" # matches most unix shells.
> Port = 23
>
> This is how you could establish a connection with a
> windows machine with NET::Telnet (Untested).
>
> use strict;
>
> my $TIMEOUT = 30;
> my $PROMPT = "C:/";
> my $HOST = "foobar.foo.com";
> my $USER = "Bob";
> my $PASS = "password";
>
> $telnet = Net::Telnet->new( Timeout => $TIMEOUT,
> Prompt => $PROMPT,
> Host => $HOST,
> Errmode => "return");
>
> $telnet->login($USER, $PASS);
>
> # Test here for success if using "return".
> my $msg = $telnet->errmsg();
> if ($msg) {
> print "$msg\n";
> $telnet->close;
> # do whatever you want here.
> }
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carter.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jitendra Soam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:39 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: NET::Telnet
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > But the what should be used as prompt?
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas R Wyant_III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:01 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: NET::Telnet
> >
> >
> >
> > "Jitendra Soam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to use Net::Telnet module to telnet into Windows
> > > machine running Microsoft Telnet Service..
> >
> > In theory, yes, _provided_ the Telnet service is set up to do
> > username/password authentication. This is not the default.
> >
> > In practice, there appear to be significant problems
> figuring out what
> > you
> > should tell it the prompt string is, because Microsoft embeds
> > all sorts
> > of
> > escape sequences in it.
> >
> > > and start Any program like Notepad on target machine?
> >
> > In theory, yes. In practice, of course, Notepad displays on
> the target
> > machine's desktop, which probably does you as the owner of
> the telnet
> > link
> > no good at all.
> >
> > Tom Wyant
> >
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