Telnet-Remote Access to Distant Computers

• Telnet is the tool for using one computer to access a second computer.
• Using Telnet, you can send commands that run programs and open data files.
• The Telnet program is a transparent window between your own computer and a distant host system; a computer that you are logging on to.
• The host computer is in a different physical place, but it is as if you are sitting in front of it and operating it. A Telnet connection sends input from your keyboard to the host and displays text from the host on your screen.
• Connecting to a Telnet host is easy; when you enter the address, the Telnet program set up a connection, when you see log-on message from the host, you can send an account name and password to start an operating operations.
• Telnet connections are useful for many purposes. For example, a Telnet connection to a library�s online catalog.