Telnet won't do what you need. Have you investigated Remote Desktop and/or
Remote Assistance?

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"Freedominizer" <Freedominizer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6C7B3F2A-E4D0-4A45-AB60-3F9B60D80ABE@microsoft.com...
> Hello
>
> I'm trying to log on my brother's computer in our house LAN to help him
> rather than going to his room, I'm using MS-Dos telnet. so when I type
> <telnet Ipaddress port> it just shows a black screen. I need to do things
> like "dir, cd, copy" but I can not. I used Putty as well it just shows the
> commands I type without results. I used ports like 137, 138, 139.
>
> I appreciate any help on this.
>
> thanks