Wednesday 7 October 2015

How to enable telnet in Windows 8

      Before going to give details about how to enable telnet client in Windows 8 , better will learn something about telnet and it's uses.

                 Telnet which is available for both Windows and Linux environment . Telnet is basically one of the networking protocol with helps to communicate with a remote machine.

         In windows there are two things as part available such as telnet server and telnet client . Telnet Server enables you to manage a remote machine . In order to display the local server settings with telnet type the command tlntadmn.

Let's get on to the thing of how enable telnet server\client in Windows 8 machine in a simple way.

Go to the search tab my moving pointer to the right corner of your windows machine.

            Type turn windows and this will result option of Turn Windows feature On/Off.
Click on that will show the window like this.





In that you can see both Telnet Client and Server which we can enable and once done click OK . It will take few minutes to and it will be enabled automatically once we finished with the configuration.



To execute telnet commands open command prompt and type with the required telnet command. For example if you want to check a remote machine TCP port is open or already used by some other application . Type the command :

telnet 192.16.0.121 80

In this command telnet command followed by the ip address of the remote machine and the port need to check.


If the specified port is used by another application it will shows with message.

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