[plug] Telnet and woody and macs

[I am the LinuxAlien]

It times out before i enter a username.
>Quite likely the same thing will happen on local login. Its quite likely a 
>PAM issue but I don't know how to fix it. Easy solution: use ssh, it does 
>its own authentication without using /bin/login.
> > 2. I couldn't ssh the connection (am using niftytelnet on the mac)
>Get MacSSH - niftytelnet-ssh doesn't handle ssh3 properly.
>>Also is it possible to not have to type in the IP and be able to type in 
>>the computer name? the mac is using TCP/IP
>
>Yes, assuming you have DNS set up. If not, the mac might have some 
>equivalent of /etc/hosts but I really don't know. I seem to remember 
>something in the System Folder like that...

TCP/IP settings had space for lots of that stuff, so do i just enter my 
computer name?


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