What's up with Telnet
When you try to use the Telnet client to connect to a Windows XP 64-Bit Professional computer that is running the Telnet service, you may receive the following error message:
Failure in initializing the telnet session. Shell process may not have been launched.Telnet Server has closed the connection.Connection to host lost.
Get it working again
To resolve this problem, follow these steps:
- At a command prompt on the Windows XP 64-bit Professional host that is running the Telnet service, type cd %systemroot%\system32, and then press ENTER.
- Type net stop tlntsvr, and then press ENTER.
- Type tlntsvr /unregserver, and then press ENTER.
- Type tlntsvr /service, and then press ENTER.
- Type net start tlntsvr, and then press ENTER. Telnet connections to the Telnet service should now be accepted