the daemon is built it. What is probably getting you is an invalid terminal
setting on your Win95 PC. Try setting it to something safe, like VT100, and
then retry your attempt. My emulators are all VT400 and caused Linux to choke
until I fixed the termcaps...
Barry
Mark A. Swope wrote:
> Okay, I'm really not familiar with this from
> the admin side. I'm running a Slackware
> distribution upgraded to kernel 2.0.36.
> When I type "telnet localhost" I get
> a login screen and can log back into
> my computer.
>
> I can't find telnetd running anywhere
> though. What's allowing me to do this?
>
> If I understand this correctly, inetd gets
> calls and forwards them to tcpd which
> is supposed to send them to the right
> port, correct? (sorry about the low-tech
> description).
>
> I ran into this while trying to telnet
> in from another box on a local (3 computer)
> ethernet network. I can ping. I've got samba
> shares running so I can attach. I can FTP.
>
> However, when I telnet to the Linux box from my Win9x box
> a connection appears to be opened, then it closes before
> I get a prompt ("connection to host lost").
>
> I guess I have two questions:
> 1) what's running to allow a telnet in on my "localhost"
> 2) what can I modify to allow other boxen on my local net
> to log in?
>
> Thanks,
> mas
>
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