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When using the Windows 2000 Server Telnet server application, you saw that the Command Prompt was used with a menu to enable you to manage the Telnet server. For Windows Server 2003, a command-line interface is also used, but you’ll have to specify the option you want to manage instead of using a menu. The basic command used for all of these options is the tlntadmn command. If you enter just the tlntadmn command at the Command Prompt, with no qualifiers, a display shows you the current configuration of the Telnet server.

Use the tlntadmn command with no command-line parameters to display the current configuration of the Telnet server.

The syntax for this command varies depending on the function you want to perform. In the following examples, brackets are used to indicate optional components. You can use one or more of the command-line options listed here. The basic functions are

tlntadmn [\remoteserver] [start] [stop] [pause] [continue] [-u username -p password] [-s] [-k (sessionid 1 all)] [-m (sessionid 1 all) "message"]

• \\remoteserver—Specifies another server that you want to administer instead of the local computer’s Telnet server.
• start/stop/pause/continue—These options operate in the same manner as detailed previously when using the Administrative Tools Telnet service tool.
• -u username and -p password—These command-line parameters can be used to specify a user- name and password that’s valid on the remote server. Note that the user account must be an administrator account or an account that’s a member of the Server Operators group.

• -s sessionid—Use this parameter to list information about a session.
• -k sessionid ₁ all—Kill a session or use all to kill all sessions.
• -m sessionid ₁ all “message“—Send a message to a particular user (using the session ID) or to all users. Enclose the message in quotation marks.

There are other command-line options you can use in addition to these basic ones. Use the help function to see all the possible options you can use with the tlntadmn utility.

The first command (-s) lists the current session of a remote user who has used Telnet to connect to the server. The second command (- k sessionid) shows an example of how to use the session ID (under the column ID) to kill that connection. You can also see information about the session, such as the domain name of the initiator of the session, the username, the IP address, as well as the date/time that the session was established and the amount of idle time (time that no commands were being used by the remote user).

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