I'm trying to use the Net::Telnet module to run a script on a XP machine being executed from a Linux machine and I'm getting the following error.

problem connecting to "IP of XP machine", port 23: Connection refused at Telnet.pl line 11

This is my 1st time using the Telnet module so maybe I'm overlooking something (??). I even tried to manually run a telnet to the XP system with no success and the same error message. I'm not sure what to try from here ....

use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::Telnet;

my $t;
my $host = "IP of XP machine";
my $perl_path = "/msg/spgear/tools/bin/perl";
my @lines;

$t = new Net::Telnet( Timeout => '10') || die "Could not create Telnet
+ object: $@ -- $!\n";
$t->open($host) || die "Could not open connection to host: $host $@ --
+ $!\n";
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