At 01:09 PM 4/20/99 , Mick Fitzpatrick wrote: >Hello > >Can someone please give me a brief summary of Telnet? Telnet is an Internet protocol similiar to FTP or HTTP... it is a sub protocol of TCP/IP... probably the most powerful one. FTP and HTTP only allow you to retrieve files, where in Telnet you can retrieve files and logon to another computer... typically it is used for remote interaction with a second computer. You become a regular user in the remote computer and have whatever privilages allowed use as that user... with root access you can do about anything inside the remote computer... I should also add that this is how we got around the Internet before the advent of HTTP, (World Wide Web), and IRC... you would dial into a mainframe, login and than Telnet to another computer... it was done using the Shell account you had on the mainframe. Bob Wright The NOSPIN Group, Inc http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html