Telnet not working
 

Hi,

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.

Waiting anxiously,

Selvam

sounds like you have only_from set in /etc/xinetd.d/telnetd but don't use telnet. it's crap. use ssh

http://openssh.org
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

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.

Use putty in the windows boxes to get ssh access.

Anyway... are you filtering traffic comming into the telnet server?

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


sumithra