About telnet: It COULD be a misconfigured firewall (see what ipchains -L gives you) About ftp: firewall could also be the problem, but maybe you're not running a ftpd.
Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote: > Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on > my LAN, I can ping it, and it can ping out. The trouble is however, when > I try to telnet into the computer it connects but no login prompt > appears. The same applies with ftp, it says connected, but again no login > prompt. When i telnet localhost from itself it functions correctly, but > ftp'ing localhost doesn't work. My hosts.allow is allowing everyone and > hosts.deny is denying no-one. Any suggestions?!? > > > Thanks is advance, > > Ian > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >