Re: [expert] Cannot Telnet

[Sarang Lakare]

Are you tring to telnet and login as root? Linux dosn't let you do that for
security reasons.. login as another user and then su to root.

Else, check the file /etc/services It has all the services that your
machine  has open.. If you have set the security level to highest in
mandrake, then it'll disable telnet.. you can only get in by using SSH.
Lemme know if you need help in setting up ssh.. its pretty straighforward!

Else, if you have telnet uncommented in /etc/services, then do "
/etc/rc.d/inid.d/inet status" and see if its running.. inet basically
starts services mentioned in /etc/services.. if its not running then simply
say "/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start" and you should be ok !

-sarang