Hmmmm, Well you need to set up and assure that telnet and FTP are running on your linux box. ALSO, you need to put an FTP server on your windows box. Some hacker sites probably have a few you can use for the purpose... I used to use one called warFTP when I still had windows. Try that as a search string at www.Dogpile.com. If no results, try the AstaLaVista Search engine at www.cyberpass.com/~tapu. On the linux box, the hosts.deny will keep everyone out, so you need to put something in hosts.allow to give the winbox access. Typically this would be the IP of the box. ALL: <hostname of the winbox>, LOCAL Would open it to your own linux box and to the windows box. Various booby-traps are available for unauthorized access attempts--to see examples, try clicking on Konsole and $ man hosts.allow Samba would be a lot easier and smoother, and Webmin a lot more GUI than ftp and telnet respectively. For a GREAT explanation of how to setup samba, try www.mandrakeuser.org.... Tom Berger did an excellent job there. Webmin is at www.webmin.com and is written in perl and will certainly run on your linux box. I have never tried it on a windows box, but I can give you a result from our LAN here. I had a deputy clerk with a total screen lockup--unresponsive to keyboard thanks to StarOffice and Netscape apparently fighting for priorities... I logged in with Webmin with no problem and forced a shutdown/reboot to avoid a hardware reset. Telnet had decided not to be running in the midst of the grand logic race of the bloated behemoths, but Webmin saved my day and the clerk's. The masquerade stuff makes it easy to use the internet from either box, which is what else the fellow from work gave you, with those ipchains instructions. By using the masquerade, no one from outside can log in to your windows box. And don't apologize for trying to learn. We were and most of us still are in that situation. I haven't learned all of linux yet though it is a goal I use to guide my life. Maybe, someday, when I am older and more decrepit, I will feel I have enough knowledge, but till then I will share what little I know, and stand ready to be corrected or to learn otherwise. Civileme On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote: > I'm sorry for asking this, and it's a bit embarassing that I've not been > able to puzzle my way through this, but Linux is new to me, and I'm just a > little bit confused about some things. > > I have my Linux box connected to the internet via DSL. I also have a Win98 > machine hooked to the linux box through a second NIC card. I am able to > ping all around from every machine, surf the web from either machine. But > what I've been unable to figure out is how to give the machines FTP and > TELNET access to each other via IP, but not letting anyone from the outside > in. Also, my IP that's connected to the web is an DHCP assigned IP from my > ISP. My hosts.allow is currently empty and my hosts.deny has the following > line in it: > > ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY > > And I didn't create this, a guy from work told me to put it in. > > I also have a firewall script this same guy wrote for and it gets run in the > rc.local file. It's: > > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -i eth0 -J MASQ > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > What is it exactly I need to do to enable the win98 machine to TELNET and > FTP to the Linux machine as well as accessing the Win98 machine from the > Linux machine? I realize I should really be using SAMBA for this, but I'm > not all that interested in using SAMBA. I tried using a couple of different > times, and it confused me even more than this method. > > Thanks... > > Joseph E. Sheble > a.k.a. Wizaerd > Wizaerd's Realm > http://www.wizaerd.com > Featuring 3D, Canvas, and ColdFusion > ============================================ > CF Developer for iTOOL.com > http://www.itool.com > Build Your WebSite Today! > ============================================
