Vista where’s my telnet
by admin on Apr.05, 2007, under Systems, Vista
If you are still using telnet to mange some of your devices try to upgrade them to SSH. But I do know that a ton of switches and other lower end devices just don’t have SSH. Most of these devices do have web interfaces but if you are like me nothing beats the good old command line.
If you upgrade to Vista you will find that when you try to launch telnet from the command prompt or from run you will have no luck. Don’t worry it is still there it just isn’t installed by default in Vista.
Instructions here to install.
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April 9th, 2007 on 11:23 am
Huh. I wonder if it’s installed by default on Ultimate. Out of curiosity, what version of Vista are you running?
Personally, I find it more useful for testing network apps than for Telnet itself. It’s the easiest way around to check if an app is actually listening on the interface/port that you specified.
April 9th, 2007 on 11:28 am
Vista Business Edition, that is very true I do that a lot too. Telnet to port 80 to see if it is listening or port 25 etc…
February 12th, 2008 on 6:43 pm
dude, check this, cmd line to install it, open a cmd prompt…
start /w pkgmgr /iu:”TelnetClient”
February 13th, 2008 on 8:18 am
Thanks for the info Steve