[WEB4LIB] Re: Telnet and Fortres/Bypassing

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Hi,

Older versions of Netscape (3.0 and it's strains) were telnet compliant
with Fortress.  Once I put communicator in, I noticed that with Fortress
enabled it will not allow you to telnet://mysite.com anymore.  So far I
haven't found a workaround, until then I put the Windows telnet icon on the
desktop, with a "see librarian" first note attached.  

I'm looking forward to anyone sharing their workaround on this.  

Thanks
Cynthia Hetherington
Englewood Public,NJ


At 07:13 AM 1/13/99 -0800, John T. Benedetto wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Newport Public Library wrote:
>
>> Sue Pearce,
>> 
>> Beware the telnet-Fortres combination. There is a way to bypass Fortres
>> using telnet (specifically, EWAN's telnet program), cumbersone as it is.
>
>Uh... um... how about telling us about bypassing Fortres, for all of us
>who can't "beware the telnet-Fortres combination".
>
>We HAVE to allow access to telnet.  Enough resources are still
>telnet-only that it's not a choice. I _guess_ we could forgo it for our
>catalog, since the last upgrade got us a webpac.  (We are using QVT/Term
>as our telnet client).
>
>I *DO* know you can bypass Fortres if you have a graphical FTP client (not
>sure about a text-based client).  The students at our Circulation desk
>figured that one out.  In WS_FTP, you can browse the files on the local
>drive, and choose "execute", They were able to run Netscape this way,
>after we had decreed that student employees were not allowed to browse on
>the staff machine sitting in Circulation. (I had taken the Netscape icon
>off of the desktop).
>
>So, could you tell us HOW to bypass Fortres with a telnet client?  (Thanks
>in advance).
>
>- John
>
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