By default, Telnet is disabled on a Windows Server 2008 installation and if you try to run it you will see an error something along the lines of:
So, here’s a very simple walk-through of the steps I had to follow in order to enable Telnet on a Windows Server 2008 box:
- Open the Server Manager:
- Select “Features” from the left TreeView pane and then click “Add Features” from the right-hand pane:
- Select “Telnet Server” from the list of available features and click Next followed by Install:
- Wait for what seems ages (it was probably only 5 minutes but it seemed like a long time!) whilst it installs the server:
- When it is complete, open a command prompt, type “telnet” and you should be presented with the following screen:
Mark is primarily an ASP.NET developer and also has skills in SQL Server, HTML and CSS. He is based in the North East of England and has a 2 year old son named George. Mark is the founder of http://aspnetlibrary.com, has a blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/marksmith and is the director of http://mdssolutions.co.uk.
