Enabling Telnet in Windows 8

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Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or LAN's or WAN's to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communications facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control information in an 8-bit byte oriented data connection over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).


The procedure of enabling/disabling the telnet in the system is similar with that of SNMP which was explained in the blog previously here.

The process of enabling telnet in windows 8 which is disabled by default configuration of the system is similar to that of previous windows operating systems like Windows 7, Windows Vista etc.. like explained in this post.

Steps to enable telnet:

1)Go to Control Panel




2)Cick on Uninstall a Program(if u r in tile View then select programs and features)




3)Click on Turn Windows Features On/Off and select Telnet Client and Telnet Server options to be enabled and click ok and then wait for few minutes for telnet to be installed and once installed telnet can be accessed from command prompt, restart of the system after installation is not required.




4) Telnet ultility can be accessed via command prompt by typing "telnet" without quotes  and pressing enter in command prompt.




5) Establish the connection via telnet to your hostname via direct port for ex:




for more information regarding telnet as a command this guide can be referred which was once explained in our previous blog.