Windows Server 2008 Core command lines

I installed a virtual copy of Windows Server 2008 Ent Core last week and have been playing around with it recently, my only problem is that I cannot telnet to it, I can telnet to any server from it, but there is no way to install Telnet server on to it. Now I do not know if this is just me or if you just cannot do it?

any way I am planning to install Core onto a physical box in the next few days and I am slowly building up a list commands

the first commands I needed to use were:

  • netdom renamecomputer /NewName:
  • shutdown /r /t 0
  • netdom join computername /domain: /userd:userID /PasswordD:* /REBoot

These are the basic commands to get the computer renamed and joined to the domain.

I am hoping to install HyperV on the physical server I am installing Core onto, and then connect it to my Shared Storage, and see where we go from there.

I am having to go through a huge learning curve here as I have never really had to do much in the way of CLI, so I might now feel like a REAL server admin! :)

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Gravatar # re: Windows Server 2008 Core command lines
Posted by Pat Bass on 17/06/2009 20:57
Hello Andy,

I've been investigating this for the past 2 days myself for one of our servers.

According to a reply I received to a post I added to the Windows Server Core Technet Forum, Microsoft does not provide any Telnet Server role for Core.

The person who answered said:

"As an alternative you can use WinRM/WinRS, Remote Desktop or SSH.

You could also use a 3rd party Telnet Server."
Gravatar # re: Windows Server 2008 Core command lines
Posted by Andrew Kemp on 18/06/2009 22:50
Pat, thanks for the comment, I'll have to look at that! I still find it funny that this is a version of their OS with no GUI! then why do you have to log in with Ctrl+Alt+Del? and then it says preparing your desktop.. and loads a command prompt!

You would have thought that they would have put Telnet Server into the core server. takes out the need to remote desktop to it.... when it doesn't have a resltop! :S
let mek now how you get on.
Thanks
Andy

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