Are you refering to "Remote Desktop Connection" that became available...not sure when. Or the clunky outbound only telnet windows comes with? Or a third party outbound only telnet? Have our windows admins been hiding something? I have never been able to telnet to a windows machine. Kip Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:34:46 +0100 From: David Sharples <davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: *nix vs MS Sender: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: DGoulet@xxxxxxxx Cc: robyn.sands@xxxxxxxxx, "Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-to: davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx "And as someone else mentioned, you can't just telnet into a MS box. You need something else like PCAnywhere or VNC." You can if you have the telnet service running (same as linux / unix ) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l