Telnet connection automatic

Hi I'm a newbie to unix and i have been given a project to work on, this project involves running a script that opens a telnet session and checks for user id and password. But when the script is run the following error occurs

Telnet> hostname <<!!
> username
> xyz
> !!

Trying 150.10.1.221...
Connected to edcsun1.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

The username and password are legitimate:
and if wrong. It should prompt for user to enter correct details

Have you tried telnetting to the machine manually without the script? If you don't get in manually, you'll never get in via script.

If you have been able to do it manually, then there really should be no reason it doesn't work through scripting.

-Gary

yeah works manually but wont allow the script, have tried using ftp with the .netrc file but still relatively new to this game (i.e. 2 weeks) so finding my feet anyway since then

Trying to ftp a printer to collect info but the ftp file shows that when it gets to password the mode is incorrect

both the login and the password are not compulsory (e.g. if the user hits the enter button twice the ftp session is initiated)

any ideas

Taking out the password line in the .netrc allows me to get to the password but this has to be entered manually i.e hit the enter button, to continue but I need this to be automatic

If the user/password are not necessary, and a blank carriage return suffices for both fields, can you send it an EOF for both lines?

-Gary