Administrating Telnet with the TLNTAdmn Utility
The Telnet Administrator utility helps you control Telnet sessions on your machine. You access it
using the TLNTAdmn utility. If you use TLNTAdmn alone, you??™ll see a display of the current
server status, as shown in Figure 17.2. Adding start, stop, pause, or continue to the command line
controls the Telnet service state. Note that these commands only work if you set Telnet to manual
or automatic mode??”the command fails if you disable the Telnet service.
Old Doesn??™t Mean Outdated
Some people will view the utilities in some parts of this book as antiquated relics from an earlier time.
However, these time-tested utilities are often your best means of managing a system, especially when
you can use your knowledge on multiple machines. Telnet is an older utility that predates Windows. In
addition to your Windows installation, you??™ll find Telnet on just about every other operating system.
The utility is low level, but quite useful. Many administrators rely on this tool to perform configuration
tasks, access a frozen server from a remote location, check routers, and generally perform tasks that you
can??™t easily perform using a graphical utility.
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