Vista - "Shellexecute" telnet

Hi,

In my script I'm grabbing the contents of a textbox, that contains a
hostname and calling it $a.
I want to give the user a couple of options with this.

Remote desktop to console session:-
$i = $textbox1.text; if ($i -ne "") { Invoke-Expression "mstsc /v:$i /
console" }
works just great. As does ping to the $i host.

So I thought I could:-
$i = $testbox1.text ; if ($i-ne "") { Invoke-Expression "Telnet $i" }
But from what I can see the telnet window spawns then closes
immediately.
I vaguely remember something about -noexit parameters but can quite
put my finger on the
syntax used or if that's the right approach?

The closest I can get is:-
$i = $testbox1.text ; if ($i-ne "") { Invoke-Item "C:\Windows
\System32\Telnet.exe" }
Which launches telnet fine but I can't seem to find any way to pass
along the $i hostname.

Or is there a better way to kick off a Telnet session to a string
variable datatype?

Any advice appreciated as always.

Thanks,

Stuart

Hi Kryten,


if ($i -ne "") { & cmd.exe /K telnet $i 80}

/K - Carries out the command specified by string but remains
/C - Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates

Make sure to pass a port number to telnet as the default port number is 23.


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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

K> Hi,
K>
K> In my script I'm grabbing the contents of a textbox, that contains a
K> hostname and calling it $a.
K> I want to give the user a couple of options with this.
K> Remote desktop to console session:-
K> $i = $textbox1.text; if ($i -ne "") { Invoke-Expression "mstsc /v:$i
K> /
K> console" }
K> works just great. As does ping to the $i host.
K> So I thought I could:-
K> $i = $testbox1.text ; if ($i-ne "") { Invoke-Expression "Telnet $i"
K> }
K> But from what I can see the telnet window spawns then closes
K> immediately.
K> I vaguely remember something about -noexit parameters but can quite
K> put my finger on the
K> syntax used or if that's the right approach?
K> The closest I can get is:-
K> $i = $testbox1.text ; if ($i-ne "") { Invoke-Item "C:\Windows
K> \System32\Telnet.exe" }
K> Which launches telnet fine but I can't seem to find any way to pass
K> along the $i hostname.
K> Or is there a better way to kick off a Telnet session to a string
K> variable datatype?
K>
K> Any advice appreciated as always.
K>
K> Thanks,
K>
K> Stuart
K>

Thanks Shay, that does work from the ps command line but for some
reason
my app didn't like it causing it to go 'not responding'. Weird.

I settled on:-

{ $tel = $textbox1.text;
$f = New-Object -com wscript.shell
$f.run("Telnet.exe $tel")
}

Thanks!

Stuart