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I have a redhat 7.3 server that I have problems accessing
with telnet and trying to set up as a Samba Server. The server is also a webserver and resides behind a router as a fire walll as does the rest of my network. As I have done on
other redhat servers, I turned off ipchains and turned on iptables. I can secure shell login from anywhere inside my
network. When I telnet, I get connection refused. I then tried allowing everything through. I stopped and cleared out all the iptables entries. I restarted iptables andentered the following commands with no error messages:
I thought I did. I went into the services configuration and made sure xinetd was running (which it says is required for telnet). I double checked with ps -ef | grep xinetd and saw that it really was. telnet was checked to start at start up. The commands to start and stop the service were grayed out. I couldn't do it from the tool. Telnet it self runs from the command line on the server buts gets a connection refused message when I telnet out to any other server. I am a newbie. How do I check the logs?
I checked that the entry in the file in the
/etc/xinetd.d/telnet
was:
dasable no
I did an
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
iIt gave me the okay message on shutting down and restarting the service. I still have the same problem. Attempts to telnet to the server get connection refused.
Secure shell logins work just fine.
I have tried connecting in from a couple of PCs running Windows 2000 and a couple of other Linux and SCO Unixware boxes on my local network. All have IP addresses in the same 192.168.1.* range. All have entries in the servers hosts file.
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