Using Terminal to connect to a switch.

[Aydos]

Something sounds messed up in your path

Normally the telnet client is in
/usr/bin
You should be able to run telnet as a regular user.

this is normally in your user path so when you type in telnet it looks in the local directory your in and then in your path.

Because it works with sudo and not as a regular user (which it should) it makes me think your path is incorrect.



Here is how you can test
in the terminal type

which telnet

it should come back and say

/usr/bin/telnet or something similar

then type

echo $PATH

if /usr/bin is not in your path then thats why its not running as
a regular user.

If it is in your path and its still not working then someone was monkeying around with permissions

In that case, take a look at the permissions of telnet

ls -l /usr/bin/telnet

it should show the permissions like this


or similar

My which telnet came back correct, but my echo $PATH says /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games.

On a second note I installed Putty and tried to connect the same way I do with windows version of putty and it timed out. However, I can do it on a windows machine right now the same way.

I am confused.

[Aydos]

I think it is something on my network. I will dig around and post later. Thanks for all the help.

[jonobr]

Hey there


Try posting the results of
ls -l /usr/bin/telnet

Im wondering if your permissions are wrong

Im guessing also if you sudo telnet <ip address> to the machine you want that this works?

Cheers

[Aydos]

Nope that does not either.

Also, I do not have to sudo to the star wars telnet. I am thinking I mistyped it the first time or something.

My problems seem to be on my network.

I am on the wrong vlan I believe. I never try to do it wired and I cannot make the new version of Ubuntu work with this wireless cards.

I am about to swap to my other machine though and I should be fine.

I'll post later.

[jonobr]

Ok, I misunderstood you
I thought you said it worked when you went sudo.

If you do a telnet to anything that doesnt exist
eg 50.50.50.50

does it at least say trying?

Can you ping the remote server your trying to connect to?

I also though you mentioned ssh was ok?

Is that still the case?