Hey,

I've got a RH9 box running telnet-server 0.17-25. Now i don't know what the problem is and i've been reading all night trying to find somthing like it. I am able to open a telnet session on the box using localhost and 10.10.10.6(machines address) but if i try to do it from another computer it drops the connection saying its refused. If i try to connect to telnet from the machine from the box using the router ip then it dropps the conneciton too. (the router is set to port forward to that computer form port 23.) does anybody have any sudgestions or any input at all? i'm stuck.

if you need any info just let me know, i've done all the basics really but if you need to see any files or anything just let me know.

Thanks
byblyk

Firewall blocking?
Why are you using Telnet by the way? If you have no reasons, and just want to connect to log into the box, you really should consider using SSH.

Yeah the only reason i use telnet is because it's on my own private network where i'm the only user.... so there is not to many worries. I've just got my server in a corner and to work on it is a pain so i like to do it from teh comfort of my desk haha.

As for a firewall. Does RH 9 have a firewall installed? That would be why. If so how could i just drop the firewall? this server is just somthing i like to test out stuff on so really i don't need a firewall... yet anyways haha.

Thanks
Byblyk

You can read about the firewall configuration here;
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...-firewall.html

Even with the systems being local, you might want to use SSH just for good practice. I use SSH on all my internal boxes. For which I also use SCP and SFTP for file transferring.

is SSH hard to configure? and what will i need client side? i telnet from a windows box.

ssh is very easy to configure. And a great ssh client for Windows is Putty.

cool thanks for the advice... after i fix my firewall problem, well at least i think its the firewall... lol. I'll set up SSH instead just to play arround.