Hi, I'm new to telnet, I was trying to telnet to a local PC (on my home network, practicing...) running vista (ver. home basic) and I got a blank screen, on the bottom it said connected, but it did not show anything even when i typed commands.

What am I doing wrong

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME 🙄

Generally speaking, you don't telnet to your local PC. Unless of course you're running a telnet server on that machine. I rather doubt that Vista home basic runs a telnet server by default, so unless you've installed one yourself, it's not going to work.

What port did you telnet to that gave you the 'connected' message?

Brian

Thanks Brian for the prompt reply, I did it on a local machine so I can practice, you are right I did NOT install a telnet server on it, I will do that and let you know what hapened

Thanks