I have a network of three PCs which works well as a Microsoft Network with Internet connection sharing as well. I have set one of these pc's to dual boot as a Linux box and have set my eth0 to the proper address. I can ping my windows pc from my linux box and I can also ping my linux box from my windows pc. However, I can't telnet the linux box from my windows pc.

assuming you have redhat 7.1 here:

check your /etc/xinetd.d/ directory. telnet should be listed there, but the line disable = yes should be changed to read disable = no.

when you're done, you're going to have to restart the xinetd daemon by running

/sbin/service xinetd restart

i'd also suggest to look up how to configure tcp wrappers in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to allow only certain services (to perhaps certain IP addresses for more security). if telnet is already enabled but you still can't get in, that could be the other problem.

My xinetd.d directory does not contain telnet only rsync.

are you saying that rsync is the only file in the the xinetd.d directory yeah?

hmmmm, strange...

mines contains a bunch of files such as to name but a few;
echo, finger, ipop3, imap, imaps, klogin, krb5-telnet
rsh, rsync, telnet, wu-ftpd

admittedly some of these i have installed myself but i thought the default install of redhat would give you more things to play with than rsync..?

anyway, heres what telnet looks like on mines

service telnet
{

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

}

Once you've got that, reload xinetd by

% /sbin/service xinetd reload

That should get you goin

Martin

He could be using inetd instead of xinetd.
In any case, just use linuxconf and go to the control panel and then to control service activity. If you find telnetd in the list, make sure it's set to run automatically and that it's running at the moment.

Also check your hosts.deny and hosts.allow files in /etc to see if the connection is not just denied.

the telnet xinetd conf file should be created by installing telnetd rpm from the cd's you've got, just change teh disable = yes line to no.

hi all,

I have the same problem, I am sure the telnet service is running, since i test it out by telneting to localhost and it work. But it just that when I telnet from other machine (windows 2k pro), it doesn't work. I said connection refused. Is it because of the firewall or anything blocking the telnet port?
P.S i am using RH 7.1

Thanks for any suggestion or help in advance

bptenzo

if you install the laptop version of linux then you wil get only rsync.if you install server version then only you will get all the files including that of telnet.

You can choose to install single packages

Then go to Deamons and select telnet AND xinetd then you can telnet to your linux machine

You'll should edit the file telnet in the dir /etc/xinetd.d/

Standard the service is disabled....

So set disable=yes to no



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