check yoour /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny
James Jennison wrote:
>
> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > I seem to have found a small prob i think ...
> >
> > telnet and FTP will not allow you to connect to your linux machine from outside
> > or inside for that matter ...
> >
> > i have it set to user /etc/passwd and etc/shadow for place to find passwds and
> > every time i try to log in from my windows / linux machine i get login failure
> >
> > not sure what is going on here ...
> >
> >
> > any one else have this problem
>
> Are you sure that the telnet and ftp daemon are running? Check to make sure
> they are loading at startup.
