A Shortcut Shell Extension DLL Problem reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cnosu_NotHonestOne · 2023-11-30 20:35 I decided I need a more private place to chat with my dumbass friends. I decided to make a Synchronet BBS. I found that to enter it for the first time you have telnet:[IP]:27. Of course by [IP] I mean the IP you used while setting up the page. When I try to enter it, a box pops up, asking for agreement to open a Shortcut Shell Extension DLL. I click to agree, and nothing happens. For that I used Opera GX. I tried also with other web explorers (Google, Bing and Firefox). The problem is, it still doesn't work. Entering others BBS with tentel also doesn't work. Any idea why that's happening? You maybe know how to fix it? Thank you in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UM-Underminer · 2023-12-01 02:57 Uh. What are you doing? Telnet =/= http. You don't access terminal connections with a web browser. It sounds like you may be unfamiliar with what a terminal BBS is, which is fair. But there's more than just one or two things to unpack and learn before any of it is going to work for you. What is your use case? Are you looking for a BBS, or are you looking for more of a web forum? They're somewhat different creatures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cnosu_NotHonestOne · 2023-12-01 06:34 Wasn't BBS meaning Bulletin Board System? Like a forum? Or I don't understand like half of the things... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2023-12-01 14:08 If you haven't been to the BBS Corner, take a look there to see what a BBS actually is. https://bbscorner.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cnosu_NotHonestOne · 2023-12-01 14:13 Thank you. Haven't seen that yet. I see there is something about helping people setting up a text based BBS. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- digitlman · 2023-12-02 10:34 You could run "telnet \[IP\]:23" instead. Notice, I did not say "telnet:", which is different. But the telnet program that comes with Windows (telnet.exe) doesn't render ANSI-BBSes very well. I suggest you install/use a purpose built BBS terminal program instead: [https://wiki.synchro.net/resource:term](https://wiki.synchro.net/reso urce:term) By running "telnet:" you're trying to invoke a Windows shell extension to run whatever program is configured in Windows to handle the telnet protocol/scheme in the URI you're specifying. You \*can\* get this working and running whatever program you prefer (telnet.exe or some other), but it's really not worth it. Nobody really expects "telnet:" URIs to work these days. Just install a BBS terminal and use it like you would any other program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2023-12-02 12:22 BBSes by design are ALL text based. The BBS that we talk about here on this particular sub-Reddit are all text based. I run the BBS Corner and I also run the Telnet BBS Guide. If you need a hand in setting up a BBS let me know. I also run a FB page if you want to join. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UM-Underminer · 2023-12-03 07:32 Pretty much any forum could technically be described as a type of bulletin board system, but synchronet and similar offerings are part of a subset that people generally mean when they use the term BBS specifically. It's the type of system that existed back in ye old dialup days that are largely text/terminal based. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ten-oh-four · 2023-12-03 09:13 Hey bud, if you want to set up a message forum that you'd use in a web browser, you're probably in the wrong place here :) Try using something like Discourse or NodeBB