Trouble with putty

theciscokid

Can't seem to get it to work, can telnet thru dos no probs.

but every time i try it with putty , it says

unable to open connection to
blah blah blah
network error : connection refused

any suggestions?

Zab

Putty defaults to SSH. Have you changed it to telnet?

Zab.

theciscokid

actually it always defaulted to telnet for me,

but no unfortunately that wasn't the problem

strange isn't it?

po0k

Are you behind a firewall/router/proxy?
I assume when windows is configured to use a proxy for all it's comms that the dos telnet command uses it automatically too, whereas PuTTY might require some extra guidance.
That's about the only thing I can think of this early in the morning.

leeroybrown

I downloaded the 0.53b release direct from the sitr and it still defaults to telnet.

Kali

ye shouldn't be using telnet anyway if its anything even slightly important. what OS is this?

leeroybrown

Ye shouldn't be using telnet

Indeed, passwords sent over plain text are never a good idea. (Although, the person running the telnetd is really to balme )

SSH is there for a reason.

misterq

In Putty, under the SSH tab, you will find protocol options.
Putty defaults to Protocol 1, but since a security update, some of our servers only accept SSH connections over protocol 2.

Just a possibilty....

Regards

Ronan