Billy Davis wrote: > We have an RH7.2 Server on the same network with a Win2K Client and an > SCO Server. All 3 systems can be successfully pinged from the other > systems. However, when we try to telnet to the RedHat box from the > Win2K Client, we get this message: Could not open a connection to > host: Connect failed When we try to telnet to the RedHat box from the > SCO box, we get this message: Unable to connect to remote host: > Connection refused When we try to telnet to the SCO box from the > RedHat box, we get a successful login. We used serviceconf on the > RedHat box to enable the telnet server and then rebooted the RedHat > box. However, we notice with the ps -d command, that telnetd is NOT > running. Both hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty. What have we > missed? Thanks
Telnetd should not be running. Xinetd handles the incoming connections. Check /etc/xinetd.conf and/or /etc/xinetd.d/telnet. Faster, "netstat -ta | grep LISTEN" (case sensitive) and check for the telnet port (port 23). Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763 Mobil: +56 (9) 824-5236 Av. Kennedy 5757, of 1502 Las Condes Santiago Chile _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list