[mythtv-users] How To Setup Telnet

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Sun Mar 12 00:59:17 UTC 2006


> I think telnet will help me run my mythfrontend remotely.

Better off to use SSH - it's more secure (which means it won't send
unencrypted passwords over the network). Install openssh server on
your box and PuTTY on your client and you're away.

> I see all over the place how to do:
>
> $telnet basement 6546

6546 isn't the telnet port, it's a MythTV or MySQL port (I think -
can't quite remember). To connect to telnet I htink you connect to
port 23. However your telnet client should just default to that so you
the command should be:

   telnet your.server.name

> Where are the setup instructions? I assume that I need something in
> /etc/services assigened to the 6545 port.

Then just make sure that the telnet service (or preferably ssh) is
running on your server.

If you can't connect then you may have firewall rules which is
preventing the connection.

Regards,
Phill


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