Win XP to W2k/RedHat
 

I have two PC's:

One that runs XP, and one that dual boots W2k and RedHat 7.3. I have them connected via crossover cable, and the two can talk when both window OS's are running.

If I boot the second PC in Linux, is there a way that I can telnet to it from my XP PC?

Any pointers or website references would be appreciated.

have you tried

telnet <host>
?

Or just screw telnet and download putty and winscp (both for Windows) and ssh into the linuxbox. (port 22)

If you can't get into the linuxbox make sure the firewall isn't up and running (as root) /etc/init.d/iptables stop (or ipchains stop). Or run lokkit

Seabass

XP knows the connection is there, and I monitor eth0 in Red Hat. I see activity coming accross, but I still get the "Connection refused" message when using putty or telnet.

I've run the iptables stop AND lokkit

I also have xinetd running, but I'm not sure what port I need to use. Is there a way to check that in RedHat?

I'm probably missing something really basic, but I just don't know what it is.

The SSH thing, I'm not sure how to get that going.

On the Linux system, is the telnet daemon (service) active ?

If not, in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
change disable = yes to disable = no

then restart xinetd