On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:48:42 -0400
"Billy Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quietly intimated:

> We have an RH7.2 Server on the same network with a Win2K Client and an
> SCO Server.  All 3 systems can be successfully pinged from the other
> systems.  However, when we try to telnet to the RedHat box from the
> Win2K Client, we get this message:
> 
>     Could not open a connection to host: Connect failed
> 
> When we try to telnet to the RedHat box from the SCO box, we get this
> message:
> 
>     Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> 
> When we try to telnet to the SCO box from the RedHat box, we get a
> successful login.
> 
> We used serviceconf on the RedHat box to enable the telnet server and
> then rebooted the RedHat box.  However, we notice with the ps -d
> command, that telnetd is NOT running.
> 
> Both hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty.
> 
> What have we missed?
> 
> Thanks

How about the firewall? The port has to be open in order to accept
telnet.

-- 
I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner
that fish follow migrating caribou.



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