Hey,

I'm using Mandrake 9.0 on my system now for about 2 weeks. Slowly learning to be "free".

I just figured out how to get VNC to startup at boot time for runlevel 3, so I can reboot my computer remotely. Now, what I want to be able to do is send/receive files using a telnet server.

It has been about 3 years since I last used linux (in college) and I vaguely remember there being some sort of telnet.d or something similar I can have start up.

Any suggestions on how to go about this? As an easier alternative to shorten your answers, how would I start the telnet server manually? Since I can already VNC into my machine, I can always start the telnet server myself. And once I can figure that out, it's easy for me to make it start at bootup. Thanks for any/all help!!

firstly, don't use telnet. http://openssh.com

secondly, it is normally started as a subservice in xinetd. look in /etc/xinetd.d/ and there should be a file for telnet which you can set to load on boot. e.g:

{
disable = no
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
only_from = 192.168.0.0/24
}