Cannot telnet into my FTP enabled AWS Windows 2012 R2 server

Question

I've created a new AWS server (Windows 2012 R2) and I'm not able to login into the server using telnet, as shown below. I've included screen shots as shown below to assist. I'm not sure what else I've missed? I've tried it locally and that works using the ftpuser I've defined.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

FTP firewall settings

Ping works

I get the following error when trying to connect from other machine

Error message

AWS security group settings

IIS settings

Update #1 - added TCP port 23 rule in AWS

Update #2 - checked FTP server is installed

Update #3 - Have installed telnet server

Sorry, not trying to get off topic. But, you are using telnet on the internal network only, not over the Internet, is that correct? Also you are aware that it is an insecure protocol (that includes ftp as well). From a security standpoint, it is not a good option to use. Anyone with a sniffer can see all the data flowing in plain text. — yetdot, Jul 29 '16 at 12:18
I can think of NO valid reason to enable a Telnet server on an EC2 instance under any circumstances. You really need to take a step back and explain what you are trying to accomplish by enabling Telnet. No matter what you are trying to do, there's a correct way to do it. — Skyhawk, Jul 29 '16 at 18:09

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '16 at 10:28

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The line you highlight in your AWS security group is for ICMP. You will need to add an entry into your security group for the telnet port TCP/23.

You'll also need to have something listening (a telnet server) on your host.

answered Jul 29 '16 at 10:28

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Thanks for helping, I've added a custom TCP rule on port 23, as shown in my updated question but I still can't connect to it. – James Radford Jul 29 '16 at 10:33
@JamesRadford Do you have a telnet service running? – Ryan Babchishin Jul 29 '16 at 10:34
believe so, please see my updated screen shot – James Radford Jul 29 '16 at 10:38
is it a firewall problem as I can remote desktop onto the server and ftp with localhost? – James Radford Jul 29 '16 at 10:47
I don't see anything that suggests a telnet server is running. – user9517 Jul 29 '16 at 10:48
let me google how to check – James Radford Jul 29 '16 at 10:50
looking at services.msc I cannot see anything called Telnet*, only Microsoft FTP service is running – James Radford Jul 29 '16 at 10:53
almost there now, I've logged in (had to install telnet server and enable it in services.msc) then from another computer I managed to login but got logged out straight away due to telnetclient groups issue – James Radford Jul 29 '16 at 11:14
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Telnet isn't FTP. Port 23 isn't FTP. – joeqwerty Jul 29 '16 at 14:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 29 '16 at 11:34

thanks to all the comments, after all the great help to get telnet up and working you need to check/ setup the following:

enable tcp port 23 on AWS
check on the AWS server the Telnet server is running (you might need to enable it services.msc)
create a ftp website in IIS and create/ assign a user for telneting.

Cannot telnet into my FTP enabled AWS Windows 2012 R2 server

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