Hi all. I'm having a problem getting any kind of
connectivity between a PC running Mandrake 10.1
and a PPC running YDL2.3 through a Linksys router.

I installed sshd, wu-ftp and webmin on the Mac and
have sucessfully started the services on the correct
ports, I think. netstat -lpn shows sshd running and
listening on port 22 and ftpd on 21.


But when I try to either ssh or ftp into the Mac from the PC
I get an error saying the connection was refused. According to
webmin I have no firewall configured, and have tried stopping
iptables to no avail. Nothing unusual has showed up in
/var/log/messages that I can see. I had the server installation
of YDL2.2 running on the same machine (before the hard-drive
crapped out) and ssh worked, so I don't think it's a hardware
issue. One suggestion I found suggested adding the line
sshd:ALL to /etc/hosts.allow but that didn't work either.

I really have searched the lists on this one and can't find
any solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Greg Richardson

hi,

there is no need to add any thing under hosts.allow file. However have a look at the hosts.deny file. What does it say.

And are you sure that : netstat -nlp shows that sshd, ftp listening on the respective port i.e. 22 and 21

Also have a look at the /etc/services file and make sure that the sshd and ftp lines are not commented anyway.

regards

Thanks for your reply,but I think I figured it out. I stopped iptables with webmin and the ports opened.