Your extended description is fine, right up to the point where you say
"cannot login". What does this mean? After you enter the telnet command on
the client, do you see absolutely nothing on the screen? Not even something
like "Trying 126.10.10.10 ..." or, from the Linux console, "Trying
127.0.0.1" (afraid I don't know how Win95 clients behave in this respect -
this is what a Linux client would show)? Do you get a login: prompt or not?
In any case, what you are describing now *appears* to be very different from
what you said in your earlier message, in which you reported a specific
error message ("Login incorrect") that has a specific interpretation
(incorrect userid or password).
This highlights something important for all beginners to remember: when you
describe errors, you always need to be exact as to what response you get, if
you want useful advice from a help list.
For now, check these things:
1. is inetd running? ("ps -aux |grep inetd")
2. In /etc/inetd.conf, is the telnet service enabled? (look for a line that
begins with "telnet tcp stream" with no leading "#" character)
3. Are there any entries in /etc/hosts.deny? If there are, you can get the
details on how to modify them with "man 5 hosts_access".
4. Is the telnet server present on your system? Look (with the find command)
for whatever app is last named on the line you found in step 2 (on my
system, it's
in.telnetd, located in /usr/sbin, but this varies by distribution and version).
5. Do your logs on the Linux server report anything about unsuccessful
telnet attempts? (Your logs are probably in /var/log/, if you're using an
out-of-the-box syslogd configuration.)
If none of this helps, please feel free to try again ... but please be as
exact as you can in describing the problem, what you enter, and what you see
on the screen. Concluding your descriptions with "cannot login" simply is
not clear enough.
At 10:45 AM 6/2/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>I'll give you more information.
>
>I have a PC Pentium 166 Mhz, called home0, IP Address 126.10.10.10,
>ethernet 10BaseT, RedHat Linux 5.2, DB2 Linux.
>
>My workstation is an IBM ThinkPad, Win95, pcmcia ethernet 10BaseT, called
>pc20, IP Address 126.10.10.20, netmask 255.0.0.0;
>I don't have any other workstation on the net.
>I use a coax cable.
>I pinged home0 from pc20 and it was OK. I pinged pc20 from home0 and it was
>OK.
>They can see each other.
>
>I try to telnet home0 from pc20 and cannot login.
>c:\telnet 126.10.10.10 or
>c:\telnet home0
>
>I try to telnet home0 from console
>#telnet 126.10.10.10 or
>#telnet home0
>and cannot login.
>
>Is there any file i have to modify?. hosts.allow??? or something?
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