Telnet server questions 1

[jjoensuu]

hi all,

a quick question (quick for one asking, at least). Telnet service is disabled on my computer. However, if I type "login" in a command prompt window, I get a "Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Server" banner. After displaying the banner the prompt "goes back to normal" (meaning I can type in some other command).

Is this how it is supposed to work? I thought that if Telnet is disabled, there would be no response in the command window.

 

[m4ilm4n]

What you're doing is running the LOGIN.CMD default telnet server script in the windows\system32 folder, which paints the login banner, sets your current directory to %HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH% and then will try to run your default login script.

 

[jjoensuu]

ah, ok. Thanks m4ilm4n