Re: Unable to use telnet

[Gene]

Chandra wrote:

Thanks for the helpful information and insights.
I am planning on using telnet because of the fact that I am not aware of any utilities which would help me remote login to Linux machine using ssh from a windows machine.
Secondly, was able to fix the telnet problem, by editing /etc/xineted.d/telnet file.

Once again thanks for the help .
Regards
Chandra

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:43:35PM -0600, Chandra wrote:

I am able to ping to my Red hat 8.0 system, but not able to login into the system using telnet from my windows desktop and getting the following error message.

telnet: Connect to address:... Connection refused.

A couple of things could be happening.
--Default security settings are blocking access to port 23 (telnet).

--Telnet server is not installed. To check:

rpm -qa | grep telnet-server

If that does not show you telnet-server then you do not have it
installed. You can install it from the CD's by using the RPM.

--Telnet server installed, but not running. To turn it on type
the following:

/sbin/chkconfig telnet on

With all of this having been said if you do not have a reason to
use telnet, I highly suggest using ssh. Telnet sends information
across the wire in plain text whereas with ssh the session is
encrypted. From a *nix box just type ssh and then the name of
your Red Hat 8.0 box. From a Windows box just do a search on
putty at Google and download it to your Windows box. This tool
will allow you to ssh to your Red Hat box.

/jft

check out ssh.com, cygwin, putty, there are number of tools out there for win32 environment to ssh in to garden of nix/bsd/etc OS.
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