Question : Problem: Automating Telnet

We're trying to telnet into an appliance from a remote computer... without logging into the remote computer.  We've gotten something close to what we need by using SendKeys (VBscript), but the script only works if we're logged into the remote computer watching the script run.  We know this is because of how SendKeys works.

Is there something similar to SendKeys we could use to accomplish this? Something that is able to 'work in the background'?  At this point, we're not limiting ourselves to VBscript...  

Answer : Problem: Automating Telnet

Thank you for the suggestions, however we were requiring something with no involvement from anyone...

We found a free command line utility called "Logon" that lets us unlock our computer:

http://www.softtreetech.com/index.htm

Which then allows us to use our SendKey scripts.