Hello everyone,

I spent a few hours trying to fix my network problems, with no success...

I'm the happy "administrator" of 2 linux boxes under RHEL (both connected to a Windows network).
-distro box 1: 2.4.21-40.ELsmp
-distro box 2: 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp

Issue 1: ftp and rlogin works fine from box 2 to box 1, but i can't make it work from box 1 to box 2.
error messages when trying ftp connection:
ftp: connect: Connection refused
error messages when trying rlogin:
box2: Connection refused
note: I cannot ftp/rlogin from a Windows PC to box 2 either.

Issue 2: launching remote applications. from box 2, i open a terminal window and do the following:
1/. xhost +
2/. rlogin box1
3/. export DISPLAY=box2:0
4/. i try to launch a remote application (say, nedit)
I get the following error message :
NEdit: Can't open display
note: i can use Exceed to launch remote app's from a Windows PC to box1 whithout any problem.

Please just ask if you need extra information.
Thank you in advance!
BR
/jb

Do you have a firewall running at box2 ?
Maybe that's why ftp and rlogin and X are blocked. Can you see error messages in the logfiles on box2 ?
Also possible is that the daemons are disabled in (x)inetd.

Pim

My IPTables on box 2 are totally empty... i'm not a specialist, but as I understand it, it means no firewall is running. Am I right?

When I check the services panel (rlogin and gssftp), on both boxes it says that xinetd is running.

mmm... I'm not sure to understand what you mean. How do I do that?


Thanks for your answer, anyway!

Probably yes.

Good

Look at the files in /var/log e.g. less /var/log/messages
At least I hope they are there with Redhat. I am running openSUSE myself, but the location is pretty standard.