Telnet from Command prompt

[swightness]

Sorry my last post didnt make any sense.
I currently run a php file through telnet
I log into telnet through the telnet terminal, connect to a server from my university with a password and user name. I then go to a folder and run my php file.

I would like to accomplish this from the command prompt

Any ideas?

Thank you!

John

[DonRayner]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking here.

If you want to know if you can telnet from a command prompt then the answer is yes. Just type "telnet ServerName" or "telnet ServerIP" from the command prompt. Also if you have iexplorer pre version 7 you can just type "telnet://ServerName" into the address bar. If it's version 7 or later you will have to make an addition to the registry to enable telnet. It also works in Firefox.

If you are looking for something other than using telnet then you could try using Remote Desktop onto a windows server to see if it's enabled for that. or use a VNC client to try and connect to a Linux or Unix box.

[swightness]

I want to do exactly what I do from my desktop from my command prompt
What I am doing from my desktop is:
Opening Telnet application
Entering a host, port, and service (university server, port 22, SSH)
I then get prompted for a SSH authentication, where I enter a username and password
At this point, i want to open a file i have on this server.

I have tried the -> telnet host port command and it seems to do something, as it says "SSH 1.9" and seems connected, but from there if i type anything, it just closes the connection saying "Protocol mismatch" "Connection was lost"

So my big question is: can i connect to this host, and provide validation through the command prompt?

Thank you,

John

[DonRayner]

Oh, If you want to use SSH then the windows telnet isn't what you want. You could download something like PuTTy and use that. Although PuTTy does have a gui it can be used from a command prompt and/or scripts.

[swightness]

Well, PuTTY has worked great. I tried to do private key validation, but had troubles- however, I was able to authenticate with a
plink username pass server command

When using a console, this works, and then I can open the file I want to open.

However, when I make a batch file, I am able to connect to the server fine, however, I cannot open the file on the next line of my batch file. Is there an intermediate step I need to do in order to run a file from a batch file once i connect to a remote server?

[DonRayner]

PuTTy also has another tool called Plink.exe. This may or may not have been included with your download and is what you are looking for. Just google for it and you should be able to find lots of information on its usage.