I would like to be able to telnet from my PC running Windows 98 to my Mac running SuSE 7.0 PPC. I have configured the Mac to start inetd and done everything that it instructed me to do in the manual to setup a telnet server. However, when I try to connect to it from my Windows computer, it it gives me an error, saying the connection was lost/refused/reset by peer depending on what client I'm using. I have also tried using SSH, with similar results. What am I doing wrong?

Bobthebat,

I think Suse 7.0 is using the Kernel 2.2.17 so check some of these things.

Make sure you have a "/etc/services" file
in that file make sure you have the line "telnet 23/tcp"

Now check you have the inetd set correctly for telnet to load.

make sure you have the /etc/xinetd.conf file.
cat /etc/xinetd.conf should look something like this.

# Some defaults, and include

defaults
{
instances = 60
log_type = SYSLOG authpriv
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST RECORD
}

includedir /etc/xinetd.d

# eof

Now go into /etc/xinetd.d/
in this directory do a "ls -l"
Should see a file called "telnet"

file looks like this and is loaded when the xinetd services are started.

[root@foo.bar old]# cat telnet
# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
# unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
}


Recommend you don't use telnet but a SSH2 service to help secure your network.

Don't use a GUI telnet client from windows as a test.
Use the windows 98 systems dos telnet client, with the command "c:\telnet ipaddress"

/Raz

Thank you very much for all the good information, however, I'm ashamed to say that it was nothing that complex at all. I had recently re-installed (showing a friend the install process), and forgot to add a line allowing telnet from the Windows computer to /etc/hosts.allow. D'oh!

I'm having the same problem with you.But I couldn't manage to solve it.I've two machines one is win2k prof and other one is Rh6.2.While I'm using the telnet from windows to connect to my linux ,I got connection refused.
Do I need to do something in linux?Do I need to run any server in my linux machine?
My w2k's Ip is 192.168.0.1 and my linux's ip is 192.168.0.2.
I'm a very new to linux .So,please give me some advice.
Thank you.