Vince Coen wrote to Stephen Atkins:   
   VC> Hello Stephen!   
   VC>    
   VC> Friday January 29 2016 08:47, you wrote to me:   
   VC>    
   VC> It might not be too happy by you using a local port to do a telnet - can't   
   VC> remember when I played with it but I do have issues using Mageia in that   
   VC> creating passwords (or updating them) is an issue.   
   VC>    
   VC> So try logging in using the internet round robin by running telnet to your    
   VC> IP   
   VC> address and see what happens then.   
   VC>    
   VC> Next go into the setting menus option 6 and check if you have enabled all    
   VC> tty   
   VC> ports (1 - 6) by setting   
      
   So I checked those setting and they where correct.  So I ended up adding 6 new   
   ports name pts/1 thru /6.  I was then able to telnet in from my work machine   
   (on a completely different ISP) through telnet.  The original 1 thru 6 are   
   still using tty1 thru tty6 and are basically local only ports (must be at   
   console).  Any way it works now so I'm happier.  Now I just got to get my door   
   games and systemd start up script working.  For now I'm logging in at tty1    
   with   
    my mbse user and running mbtask manually.   
      
   Stephen   
                 
      
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