Hello,

Since you didn't have a Net::Telnet example.... I find that it works well for me. It shouldn't matter if you're on a Windows box or not. As long as the telnetd is running on the Linux machine.
Of course, I use this in an internal network. 
    my $host     = "host123";
    my $username = "bobjones";
    my $password = "mypassword";


    my $thost = new Net::Telnet(
        Timeout => 20,
        Host    => $host,
        Errmode => "return"
    );

    $thost->login( $username, $password );

    my $prompt = "_MYPROMPT_";
    $thost->prompt("/$prompt\$/");
    $thost->cmd("set prompt = '$prompt'");  # depends on the shell in 
+use.
        
    my $command = "ls";
    my @out   = $thost->cmd($command);

    $thost->close;

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getting a directory listing, then creating a directory in /temp, copying a .tar file from my local windows PC to this folder, extracting it and then running the setup program...

All of the above can be done with Net::Telnet... (I don't know about the copying... I haven't tried that. I usually use Net::FTP for that..)

Hope it helps...
regexes


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In reply to Re^3: How can I connect to a Linux Machine from a Windows Box by regexes
in thread How can I connect to a Linux Machine from a Windows Box by blackadder

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