I used penguinet for a little and now I use absolute telnet, both very good SSH clients fron the win32 enviroment. -- Michael S. Dunsavage ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:03 PM Subject: Re: Unable to use telnet
> Chandra wrote: > > Thanks for the helpful information and insights. > > I am planning on using telnet because of the fact that I am not aware of > > any utilities which would help me remote login to Linux machine using > > ssh from a windows machine. > > Secondly, was able to fix the telnet problem, by editing > > /etc/xineted.d/telnet file. > > > > Once again thanks for the help . > > Regards > > Chandra > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:43:35PM -0600, Chandra wrote: > >> > >>>I am able to ping to my Red hat 8.0 system, but not able to login into > >>>the system using telnet from my windows desktop and getting the > >>>following error message. > >>> > >>>telnet: Connect to address:... Connection refused. > >>> > >> > >> > >>A couple of things could be happening. > >> > >>--Default security settings are blocking access to port 23 (telnet). > >> > >>--Telnet server is not installed. To check: > >> > >>rpm -qa | grep telnet-server > >> > >>If that does not show you telnet-server then you do not have it > >>installed. You can install it from the CD's by using the RPM. > >> > >>--Telnet server installed, but not running. To turn it on type > >>the following: > >> > >>/sbin/chkconfig telnet on > >> > >>With all of this having been said if you do not have a reason to > >>use telnet, I highly suggest using ssh. Telnet sends information > >>across the wire in plain text whereas with ssh the session is > >>encrypted. From a *nix box just type ssh and then the name of > >>your Red Hat 8.0 box. From a Windows box just do a search on > >>putty at Google and download it to your Windows box. This tool > >>will allow you to ssh to your Red Hat box. > >> > >>/jft > >> > >> > >> > > > > check out ssh.com, cygwin, putty, there are number of tools out there > for win32 environment to ssh in to garden of nix/bsd/etc OS. > -- > <gyoo [at] attbi [dot] com> ~«©¿©»~ > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
