>-----Original Message-----
>From: Billy Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:56 PM
>Subject: Telnet connection fails
>
>
>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.
It shouldn't be...........is called by xinetd as needed.
>
>Both hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty.
I believe that all LOCAL services need an entry in /etc/host.allow. Try to add
in.telnet.d:ALL ( or the names, ips of other machines)
>
>What have we missed?
>
>Thanks
Regards,
Tom
_______________________________________________
Redhat-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
