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! ============================================
