TELNET
Lesson Plan
Session 15
The next best thing to being there...
Telnet is the Internet's remote login application. It lets you sit at a keyboard connected to one
computer and log on to a remote computer across the Internet. When you are connected, it is as if
your keyboard is connected directly to that remote computer.
To run telnet, you type the telnet command followed by the name of the host you want to use.
If everything goes well, you are then connected to that host.
Telnet gives you access to the ever-growing universe of information such as:
- On-line library systems and their catalogs and databases
- Supercomputers (assuming you have an account and authorization)
- Weather, goegraphic, and other information
- Soda and candy machines, to see what's in stock
The basic procedure is as follows:
- Start-up the TELNET program, usually by typing telnet
- Give the TELNET program an address with which to connect
- Make a note of what the escape character, usually ^[
- Log in to the remote computer
- Set the terminal emulation, usually VT100
- Explore the remote computer
- Quit
Just as you need an account, a user-ID and password on your own system, you may need one on the
remote system. However, many systems are available to the general public for reasonable use.
Commonly, you access systems like this by using a stand user-ID such as guest and either
no password or by providing your email address as password. (This enables the system manager
to track who's using what.)
You should apply the same standards of security and "user etiquette" for using this account as you
do your own.
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Telnet (from Internet 101)
- Telnet lesson
- Hytelnet - telnet access to library catalogs Includes
telnet tips. Hytelnet is a hypertext browser for telnet accessible sites.
- Telnet software for your PC
or Mac
Author: Cheryl LaMaster
(clamaste@fnal.gov)
Created: Dec. 7, 1995 - Updated: Dec. 8, 1995
Written for the Fermilab Education Office's LINC Program