From the Net::Telnet documentation
Connecting to a Remote MS-Windows Machine
By default MS-Windows doesn't come with a TELNET server. However third party TELNET servers are available. Unfortunately many of these servers falsely claim to be a TELNET server. This is especially true of the so-called "Microsoft Telnet Server" that comes installed with some newer versions MS-Windows.
When a TELNET server first accepts a connection, it must use the ASCII control characters carriage-return and line-feed to start a new line (see RFC854). A server like the "Microsoft Telnet Server" that doesn't do this, isn't a TELNET server. These servers send ANSI terminal escape sequences to position to a column on a subsequent line and to even position while writing characters that are adjacent to each other. Worse, when sending output these servers resend previously sent command output in a misguided attempt to display an entire terminal screen.
Connecting Net::Telnet to one of these false TELNET servers makes your job of parsing command output very difficult. It's better to replace a false TELNET server with a real TELNET server. The better TELNET servers for MS-Windows allow you to avoid the ANSI escapes by turning off something some of them call console mode.
If you use the Dump_log option: my $t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10,
Dump_log => "telnetdump.txt");
you will see these characters in the file.
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Hi
Its because of the Windows authentication problem. The telnet server tries to connect thru the default login cmd of telnet. But as usaual telnet on windows2k (Microsoft telnet service that comes along with windows) will not use this instead it does the NTLM Authentication.
Currently i have no other solution. Get a Third party telnet server and stop the windows telnet server.
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If you can manually telnet into the machine, using Expect might be a solution for you, look into the Tutorials section for a good primer on using Expect. | [reply] |
Do you know that the windows box has a telnet server running on it? Most *nix machines have this server. Windows does not have this server by default. Can you use a standard telnet client to connect to the windows box?
You'll have to get one and start it as a service on your windows box.
Duhooo! I'm not my self today. PLEASE disregard this.
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