telnet with putty through a proxy

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bartab
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telnet with putty through a proxy

Post by bartab » Mon Apr 05, 2004 12:12 pm

Hi,
Im using putty at home, I connect easily, no problem.
Now, I'm at work behind a firewall I suppose, what I can say is that to connect to internet I use a proxy (that I can guess from checking LAN parmeters in Internet options in IE)
So I try to configure Putty to connect to my computer at home through this proxy.
As stated in the putty manual :
Many firewalls implement a less formal type of proxy in which a user can make a Telnet connection directly to the firewall machine and enter a command such as connect myhost.com 22 to connect through to an external host. Selecting "Telnet" allows you to tell PuTTY to use this type of proxy
so in the proxy hostname I type the ip of my proxy, port 23, option Telnet.

Now when I click on Open in putty interface, after having put my home IP (yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) and the port I configured in the telnet.ini (port 23), I have the following screen :
Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
Kernel x.X.xx-xx.X on an i686
login: connect yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy 23
Password:
In putty proxy configuration there's a field Telnet command : connect %host %port\n
It seems to pass this command in the login ...
Maybe it's not the right command to connect to my ip at home..
I certainly miss something obvious but after some research I'm not able to find a solution.
Does I need an username and password from my system administrator ?

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Post by Pheph » Mon Apr 05, 2004 2:14 pm

What you are seeing is the default login screen for RedHat 8.0

My guess is that your companys proxyserver is running on RH.
Typing connect, etc at the login prompt isn't gonna get you anywhere.