Hi, You should perhaps use ssh in place of telnet. >From another unix type mnachine you would do: ssh root@yourbox where yourbox can be its name or ip address, and it should ask you for the root password on your box and you are in business. For windows there is an ssh client program called putty. I had some problems using telnet on more modern linux machines related to the utf8 character set. Telnet is also not secure. Depending on your distro, getting a telnet server running would differ. If you cannot use ssh due to some reason, you sould need to start a telnet server on the box you want to access and then sign on as a normal user. By default you would not be able to telnet in as root. Regards, Willem On Thu, 3 May 2007, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > Hello! > > I need to access my linux box using telnet to be able to reach it when I'm not next to it, how do I do? > > /Kristoffer -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to CallCentre@xxxxxxxxxxx This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list