Getting to MySQL database from Telnet?

I did plenty of web searching with no luck, before I typed up this post.

In my Windows 2000, I enter

Start->Run->cmd

which brings up a Command Prompt box, and then I enter:

telnet

and the prompt changes to

Microsoft Telnet>

What are the EXACT THINGS I should type to get access to my MySQL database, which lives at an external web host server, not on my own PC.

I asked my web host what I should do and their response was:

"Your shell account has been enabled. You can connect to 66.246.37.202 and login to your account using your username and password"

So at the Telnet prompt I typed in

open 66.246.37.202

and it just sat there displaying

Connecting To 66.246.37.202...

and then about 20-30 seconds later came back with the message:

Could not open a connection to host: Connect failed

So I tried

open -h 66.246.37.202

After displaying

Connecting To -h...

for a while, it came back with:

Could not open a connection to host on port 66 : Connect failed

What do I have to do to get to my database? Once I'm there I can start doing all the usual SQL stuff.

Thanks in advance,

Simon.

Problem solved with PuTTY a W32 SSH client.

telneting to the server isn't always necessary, you can refer to this thread for a little easier way:
http://www.devarticles.com/forum/sh...=&threadid=5378


alternatively, at the command line: telnet <host> <port> might have worked.