Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide

Telnetting to Your Server

Telnet provides one of the most basic and easy ways to use your Linux system as a server, which telnet calls a host. Essentially, this approach reduces your client computer to the status of a dumb terminal. Most people who have worked in large, mixed Unix and NT environments will be familiar with the use of a Windows machine to telnet to a Unix server. Once you get your Linux server running, the procedures, of course, are the same.

To telnet to your server using the Windows telnet client:

1.	On the Microsoft Windows Start menu, choose Run. The Run dialog box will open (Figure 13.3). Figure 13.3. To run the Microsoft Windows telnet client, first open the Run dialog box.
2.	Type telnet.
3.	Click OK. An empty Telnet window ...