# connect portserver through telnet

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**Category:** Realport\
**Created:** [March 2, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/connect-portserver-through-telnet/7242 "2005-03-02T23:41:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@charles](https://forums.digi.com/u/charles)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/connect-portserver-through-telnet/7242/1 "2005-03-02T23:41:19Z")

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I connect to PortServerII16 through Telnet. Login as root and type who command. I can see my tty is 17. That’s ok. From there, I want to connect to my server through Telnet. OK! I can type “telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx”. Yes, I got a connection.  
My problem is that I have to have d200 termtype. I can change “termtype” from range 1 to 16 but not 17. default is VT100.  
2nd problem(question) is…  
If I set user, can portserver connect to my server through telnet as soon as user logins in as his user name?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![userid0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f6c823/32.png) [@userid0](https://forums.digi.com/u/userid0)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/connect-portserver-through-telnet/7242/2 "2005-05-12T15:27:22Z")

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Yes, you can configure users to connect directly to your server:

#\> set user name=(user\_name) autoconnect=on autohost=(IP\_of\_your\_host\_server) outgoing=on autoport=23

The termtype value is simply a text value that is passed onto your server to interpret the true emulation.