Windows Vista by default doesn’t come with Telnet service installed.
If you use remote login extensively to connect to a Vista system,I would recommend SSH for that as it is far more secure than telnet which doesn’t encrypt communication between client and server.
Installing telnet(client as well as server)in Vista is quite a straight forward process.By default,if command “telnet” is issued in Vista,you will see an error message like this :
In XP,Add/Remove Programs used to install many services like IIS etc which by default didn’t come installed.
To install telnet on Vista,go to Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off.This will need administrative rights.
Here select both – telnet server and client.An information box will pop up after this indicating that the selected services are getting installed on Vista :
Once installed,type telnet at the Windows command prompt and this time,it will show the console for telnet connections.
We have installed telnet client as well as telnet server.However telnet server service needs to be started from services console so that incoming telnet connections are accepted by the Vista system.
Go to Start > Run > services.msc and select Telnet,right click on Properties and hit the Start button for the service to start.
We now have configured Vista to accept inbound Telnet connections(server) as well as to connect to other Telnet supported devices(client).
All done.
Hope this has been an informative post.