I am unable to establish a Telnet session with Vista. I have turned on both the telnet client and telnet server. I have turned off the firewall. I receive the error message: "could not open the connection to the host on port 23 connect failed." I am able to ping the computer.NetworkArchitectre

I would like to find a step-by-step procedure for implementing Telnet with MS Vista.NetworkArchitectre

sounds like the item you are trying to telnet is blocking either telnet completly or the port.to test try."o195.10.254.26 110"you should get "+OK POP3"if you dont then the problem is on your machine

Hi, Thank you for posting. I will suggest the following to narrow down the issue as well: 1. Please check if there are some specific settings of the security software (such as antivirus, firewall, etc.) on the both computers blocked. 2. Please perform a Clean Boot on the computer to check if there are some conflicts. Clean boot ================= 1) Click the Start Button type "msconfig" (without quotation marks) in the Search box, and then press Enter. Note: If prompted, please click Continue on the User Account Control (UAC) window. 2) Click the "Services" tab, check the "Hide All Microsoft Services" box and click "Disable All" (if it is not gray). 3) Click the "Startup" tab, click "Disable All" and click "OK". Then, restart the computer. When the "System Configuration Utility" window appears, please check the "Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts" box and click OK. NOTE: we can go back to normal boot by running msconfig again and checking on Normal Startup in the General tab. In the Clean Boot Environment, the third party services and applications are disabled, please check if the issue reoccurs at this time. If the problem does not occur, it indicates that the problem is related to one application or service we have disabled. You may use the MSCONFIG tool again to re-enable the disabled item one by one to find out the culprit. 3. If possible, please use another computer to perform the telnet request and check how it works. Hope this helps. Nicholas Li - MSFT