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Ok, I got me a Belkin wireless G plus MIMO router, but my problems are the

following 1st I can't telnet to my router, why? The telnet service is turned

on on my computer. Secondly when I telnet to my own computer from the same

computer I can get on, but it does not ask me for my password, which I have

one.


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"UnknownTBeast" <UnknownTBeast@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote...

What do you mean, when you say you can't "telnet to the router"? What fails?

What error do you see? Help us out, a little bit here ... :-)



Telnet is a client/server protocol. Whether or not you have the telnet

service running is irrelevant to whether you can run the telnet client or

make a connection to some other telnet host (such as your router). You would

only run the telnet service if you want to telnet into your Vista box; to

telnet out from your Vista box you only need telnet client.



Are you connecting using IP address or hostname? IP address is more

foolproof, as it bypasses DNS and name resolution issues. So you'd probably

use a command like:



C:\FOO>telnet 192.168.0.1



and press enter (assuming you have a private C Class network configured, and

your router is the default gateway). What happens then?



This is normal behaviour. By default, the telnet server on Windows will use

NTLM authentication - it authenticates you, using your user context on

Windows. If you want to disable NTLM authentication, run tlntadmn.exe as

administrator, to turn off NTLM and only use password authentication. Then

you need to type in the password. Note that this is not any more secure (in

fact NTLM will be more secure than clear-text passwords).



Hope it helps,

--

Andrew McLaren

amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au





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