so from the earlier posts, my telnet myhost 7775 is working fine. but how do we interact with it then?

are you trying to get telnet to pick up on port 7775? what is listening on port 7775. im not really sure what your trying to do. maybe if you post the output of the command 'netstat -a' because i am still unsure of what you are trying to do. when you do telnet myhost 7775 what responce do you get? you cant use telnet to connect to everyprotocol. because telnet is plain text you can use it connect to a pop3 server and smtp, and of course, with telnet. you cant however use telnet with sftp which you said you were trying to use before. you need to use the utility 'sftp'
instead of typing 'telnet myhost' you type 'sftp myhost'

we still need more information to help you.

ya, appreciate your help...

i did a netstat -a | grep sftpd and got the below

tcp4 0 0 *.sftpd *.* LISTEN


so this proves that the port 7775 is listening?

and okay, through the earlier posts, i understand that telnet is not all capable..... and telnet myhost 7775 seems weird... because telnet and sftp are two different protocols....

what is wrong?

sftp by default listens on port 115.
try sftp myhost 115
edit:
actaully wait what am i saying, just type sftp myhost
you dont need to specify the port number.

ha, i did a find on sftp but no result was issued.. only sftpd, does it make a difference?

and even if i do a sftpd myhost 7775, the system just waits there.
even if i execute the command found in , http://www.cs.unc.edu/help/sftp/commands.html. it has no response...

sftpd is the Daemon, or server for sftp. you cant use that to connect to an sftp server, you need the sftp client. see www.openssh.org for some software. when the ssh daemon was installed there was no clients installed with it? do you have an ssh client? again, you cant just type commands and hopesomething happens, you will most likley be prompted for a (maybe) user name and password. then the commands are just like normal ftp, ls, cd, put, get etc...

also, why 7775? have you configured the sftp daemon to listen on that port? if not theres probably nothing listening there. it looks like you dont have an sftp client, before you download it though try typing /sbin/sftp myhost

dont put any port number at the end just try it just likethat. theres no sftp in /sbin then you will have to download the client.