Hi,

Configuration Information:
I have a Windows 7 box and a new Fedora Linux box (both are just regular home-use Dell PCs).

Both access the Internet via my Netgear DGN2200 and they are physically connected to it.

When I log into the NetGear administration portion of the router I see both devices (192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3).

What I can do:
1) As I said, I can get to the Internet from both boxes.
2) I can log into that adminstrator portion of the router thru its Browser interface (by going to 192.168.0.1) either thru the Fedora box or the Windows box.
3) I can ping both machines and get responses/data from both machines regardless of whether I am on Windows 7 (cmd.exe) or Fedora (regular old terminal/shell).
4) While I am in Fedora, I can even ssh into the Windows box and do commands (like date and dir).
5) I can generally reference either machine by its IP address or the device name it is assigned (say for this example, "Windows7Box" and "FedoraBox").

And here is the REAL problem, What I CAN'T do:
I can't get INTO the Fedora box from the Windows box:
1) I can't PUtty over to it (ssh, rlogin, telnet).
It usually responds with a timed out connection,
but I also have seen connection refused
2) The Fedora Box is running my own personal Web site - internally (not on the Web), through Apache.
It is a fully functional site including CGI scripts.
But I cannot access it from the Windows box either thru 192.168.0.3 or "FedoraBox"
(or for that matter, http://192.168.0.3, http://FedoraBox, http://192.168.0.3/index.html, http://FedoraBox.html, ad nauseum)
Here too, I get connection timed out.
3) In my Windows 7 box I run the MKS toolkit - ksh in this case - and from ksh in Windows 7, I can't rlogin, rsh, ssh or telnet into the Linux (Fedora) box.
4) I even installed Samba and configured it - but I get the same results. That is, I cannot access the filesystem (directory and files) on the Linux box FROM the Windows 7 box.

Generally, I have been root to try this stuff out - except for obvious stuff like the Web browser.

Can anyone tell me why the Fedora box has it's doors closed to the outside world -
except for its working Internet connection and simplistic 'ping' capability?

Thanks, Matt

Do you have a firewall running on the linux box?
The output of iptables -L should tell you.

Have you installed and configured sshd on the linux box? If you don't have an ssh server running, you will not be able to connect.

Thanks for the reply.

I have the firewalls on both boxes (McAfee on W7 and system-config-firewall 1.2.25 on Fedora) disabled. However, I get the all the same results whether they are up or down.

Doesn't look like I have sshd.

Do I 'yum install sshd'?

Thanks again,
Matt

'yum install sshd' says there are no packages to install, nothing to do. How/where do I get the sshd package?

I've never used fedora, but 'yum install sshd' sounds reasonable.

You'll also have to configure sshd.

Some links (in no particular order):

http://embraceubuntu.com/2005/10/28/...m-using-sshfs/
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-...practices.html
http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...ation_with_ssh

Thanks again, you really helped. I guess it is sshd. The answer that I used explicitly is marked as #1 with the green checkmark at:
http://serverfault.com/questions/307...d-on-fedora-11

More Fedora bizarreness that I'm not even going to try to understand is that I actually have to have the firewall enabled! So, yes you heard right, for me to get to the Fedora box from W7 the firewall must be enabled. Bizarre. Wierd. Bizarre. Makes Bill's s/w look 'right' by comparison.... Wierd. Bizarre.