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I don't have the firewall turned on on my 192.168.0.30 or 192.168.0.4 windows PCs .
Are you refering to some kind of default firewall on my linux PC (192.168.0.20). I haven't deliberately turned on a firewall on my linux PC. If it turns on by default (after a standard SERVER install), how do you disable it?
don't use telnet, use ssh. it's possible that the telnet server is defaulting to only allow local connections as it's so insecure compared to the wonderful ssh.
I agree that ssh is more secure, and is encrypted and is far superior to telnet, and all that, but this is a test/play PC and I am determined to get TELNET to work. Once I've solved the TELNET mystery I will then go on and try ssh, etc. I've already had a lot of success playing with the Apache web server, but this TELNET thing has really got me foxed.
I've tried all the obvious things like checking that disable=no in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
and even tried restarting the service inetd with: "service xinetd restart"
I can't see what I could possibly be doing wrong.
Are there any experts out there with any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?
OK, I just started sshd using the command: /sbin/chkconfig sshd on
I then started my ssh client on my windows PC and it worked fine. I can now talk to my linux PC remotely (woo hoo). However, this doesn't answer what's going wrong with my telnet server.
Please post suggestions here at your next earliest convenience. Thanks
>> well if the telnet server is running via xinetd,
>> then what does the /etc/xinetd.d/telnetd file say?
Hmmm, I'm too much of a newbie to know exactly what that question means. I only mentioned that I've checked that disable=no in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet , because another site mentioned it.
I don't have a telnetd file in /etc/xinetd.d/ as you suggest. I do however have a telnet file in that directory, and it looks like this:
[root@servo xinetd.d]# more telnet
# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
# unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
disable = no
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
}
Does that give you any clue about my TELNET problems?
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