Well Your friend might be right. All you need to check is whether telnetd/sshd
is installed or not.
Do 'rpm -qa | grep telnet' and 'rpm -qa|grep ssh'
If the packages are installed the you need to start the daemons.
For telnet, uncomment relevant line from /etc/inetd.conf and restart inetd.
Check out telnetd man pages for logging options. Telnet in considered as
insecure and is advisable only for lan and on a desktop machine.
Sshd daemon is separately run. Do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/ssh start.
For file sharing either use NFS or SAMBA. NFS can connect to unix machine and
SMB to windows. I havn't found good enough nfs client for windows(Desparately
needed.)
But again NFS is a security risk. Run firewall alongside it too...
HTH
Shridhar
Diwakar Ranganathan wrote:
> this is Diwakar from another account. i have linux
> mandrake 7.2 installed in my machine. i want to make
> my machine accessible to my colleagues in the network.
> how can i do that? one of my colleagues here tells me
> that linux has been installed as a desktop and not a
> server, so other people on the LAN cant access my
> system. Archan and Saugata who installed it know the
> answer, i think. but i'm addressing this to everyone.
> how do i give access to my machine?
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