I did check the logs and the message is "Failed to initalise telnet TCP Service". I am using Windows XP Professional.
Is there any way permission can be altered? Thanks R On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Jim Idle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rick Sr wrote: > > Windows Telnet service is disabled. When i execute telnet localhost > > from cmd i get the following error "Connecting To localhost...Could > > not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed". > > Did you check the Windows event logs? Often there will be a message > telling you why the service would not start. You won't be able to telnet > in to the system unless the service is running. Quite often this happens > because the Windows machine is not configured properly (service does not > have permissions to start) or because you are using say "Home Edition" > which won't allow such things without messing around and so on. > > > Jim > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
