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I've installed Linux Redhat 9.0 and it's connected to another WinXP laptop in the same network. If I telnet from the Linux RH9 Box to localhost or its IP 192.168.1.2, I can get connected. But when I telnet from the WinXP laptop with the IP 192.168.1.5, it never gets through. The screen in the laptop hangs for a while and then exits with the error message below:
telnet 192.168.1.2
Trying 192.168.1.2....
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection reset by peer
I'm aware that this a common classic problem with Linux because I've been reading the forum threads everywhere. But unfortunately there doesnt seem to be a common classic solution for this.
If there is anyone here who'll be able to shed some light in this matter. I appreciate greatly if someone can come forward to help me.
Actually I do agree with you that telnet is crap and ssh is far better. But the problem is that all the other pcs in my customer premises are windows. and i have installed linux red hat as a database server. so if i were to troubleshoot i need to telnet from any of the windows machines to the linux server. i hv no choice but to telnet from windows as windows doesnt come with ssh.
So based on my previous symptoms can you diagnose what could be the problem? i think it has to do with some configuration file. Please share with me if you know the solution.
By default when u install REDH HAT 9.0 the firewall security IPTABLES also gets installed and started . Check whether the iptables is in the process . iptables -L
and stop the firewall and flush by iptables -F
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