<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Author" content="Prana - http://www.cyest.org"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.16-9mdkfb i686) [Netscape]"> <meta name="Keywords" content="cyest"> <title>Getting Started with GTelnet</title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088"> <h1> GTelnet</h1> <h3> <a href="http://www.cyest.org">http://www.cyest.org</a></h3> <center><b>Getting Started</b> <hr WIDTH="100%"></center> GTelnet is a fancy frontend to telnet, ssh, and rlogin client for <a href="http://www.gnome.org">Gnome</a> environment with nice look and feel :-) If you have used telnet/ssh/rlogin before, I don't think you need to read this documentation, but if you're a newcomer from Windows or MacIntosh, you might find this documentation helpful for you. Here are some hints and documentations that you might need: <ol> <li> <a href="#telnet">What is Telnet?</a></li> <li> <a href="#ssh">What is SSH?</a></li> <li> <a href="#rloginh">What is RLogin?</a></li> <li> <a href="#gtelnet">What is GTelnet?</a></li> <li> <a href="#history">GTelnet version history</a></li> </ol> <ol> <li> <a NAME="telnet"></a>The <b>telnet</b> command is used to communicate with another host using the TELNET protocol via port 23. With telnet, you can have a remote shell in another computer. For example, you have to update some files at the university or your work place or you have to manage your network remotely. Then you can do it by telnet-ing the remote computer and do the work within its shell with vi, emacs, etc. You can also check your e-mail from a remote host with pine.</li> <li> <a NAME="ssh"></a><b>SSH</b> is similar to telnet, it has the same or very similar functions, but it is more secure. It connects to the remote host via port 22. (<i>From SSH Manual</i>) SSH is a truly seamless and secure replacement of old, insecure remote login programs such as rlogin or rsh. According to the official SSH (Secure SHell) site, SSH is "the secure login program that revolutionized remote management of networks hosts over the Internet. It is a powerful, very easy-to-use program that uses strong cryptography for protecting all transmitted confidential data, including passwords, binary files, and administrative commands.", and SSH2 is "the sequel to the award winning SSH1 protocol. It provides a set of radical improvements to SSH1. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. To learn more about SSH, you can visit <a href="http://www.ssh.com">http://www.ssh.com</a> or <a href="http://www.openssh.com">http://www.openssh.com</a>. If GTelnet complains that ssh is not installed, please get the software from either of those websites. Most major Linux vendors such as <a href="http://www.mandrake.com">Mandrake</a>, <a href="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat</a>, and <a href="http://www.suse.de">SuSE</a> have the RPM package of openssh that can be downloaded from their FTP sites.</li> <li> <a NAME="rloginh"></a><b>RLogin</b> is a protocol similar to telnet that connects via port 513, but it is rather insecure. It is recommended that you use either telnet or SSH only.</li> <li> <a NAME="gtelnet"></a><a href="http://www.cyest.org">GTelnet</a> is a 3-in-1 <a href="http://www.gnome.org">Gnome</a> client frontend for all these 3 protocols with lots of bells and whistles.</li> <li> <a NAME="history"></a>This is the version history:</li> <p><br><b>22nd October 2000 (v2.2) - Prana</b> <br>- <u>IMPORTANT</u>: Change in the binary executable from "Gnome_Telnet" to "gnome-telnet" <br>- Improved documentation <br>- Added SSH user login dialog - granted requests from numerous users :) <br>- Added terminal compatibility with aixterm, hpterm, iris-ansi, vt100, and more! <br>- Added more and more error checking <br>- Fixed a very tiny bug: color mapping problem that makes the color blurry when running Pine <br>- Optimized the non-redundant code generated by the IDE - thus the binary executable is now smaller than the previous release <br>- It seems that it's the final stage of the development, it is stable. It has been tested with OpenSSH 2.2.0p1, OpenSSH 1.1.2, SSH 2, telnet, and rlogin <br>- Moved the documentation to /usr/doc/gnome-telnet-2.2 instead of using /usr/share <br>- Thank you to people who have suggested features thus making this little program works better :) <br>- Now it's time to move on and start continuing the development of SubNetwork Explorer <p><b>30th August 2000 (v2.1) - Prana</b> <br>- Improved compatibility with SSH2 <br>- Added Deutsch (Germany) translation by Matthias Wimmer <matthias@matthias-wimmer.de> <br>- Added documentation and help file <br>- Added history combo box for the host name entry <br>- Fixed environment problem (now it's set to xterm) <br>- Fixed color mapping problem <br>- Fixed a bug in the preferences dialog <br>- Fixed Mandrake 7.1 installation bug. Now the RPM package will be seperated from Mandrake 7.02 <br>- Fixed memory allocation problem <br>- Fixed scrollbar problem when resizing/scrolling the window <p><b>28th July, 2000 (v2.0) - Prana</b> <br>- Added support for SSH <br>- Added support for Rlogin <br>- Added scrollbar <br>- Bug in input entry in the toolbar is fixed (ALL) <br>- Now if you're connected the status bar will display some kind of light <br>- And other numerous bug fixes and other several enhancements <br>- Major code cleanup - (it used to be so messy!) <br>- Thanks to Takeshi Aihana <aihana@muc.biglobe.ne.jp> for adding the Japanese locale <p><b>26th July, 2000 (v2.0) - Prana</b> <br>-Start coding again <p><b>2nd June, 2000 (v1.2) - Prana</b> <br>- Background images is now supported <br>- Bug in input entry in the preferences dialog is now fixed (ALL) <br>- And other numerous bug fixes and other several enhancements <p><b>31st May, 2000 (v1.1) - Prana</b> <br>- Enhancement of GTelnet <br>- All user interface are changed <br>- Preferences Dialog (for telnet options) <br>- etc... <p><b>27th September 1999 (v1.0) - Kenth Andersson</b> <br>- First initial public release of GTelnet</ol> <p><br> <hr WIDTH="100%"> <center><a href="index.html">Home</a></center> </body> </html>
