[ltp] telnet

[cdb]

Wayne Ayotte wrote:

> Hi, I hope this is an easy one, here are the details and we
> appreciate any help we can get, thanks in advance We have a thinkpad
> with Linux-Mandrake 6.0 installed. It is connected to a local lan
> using tcp/ip, ethernet and a hub. There is an NT box on the
> LAN. Everything seems to work great! We can ping the NT from the
> thinkpad and vice versa, no problem. We can ftp the NT from the
> thinkpad and vice versa; BUT we can't seem to telnet the thinkpad from
> the NT. When we telnet from the NT to the thinkpad or telnet the
> thinkpad from the thinkpad we get the following: "trying ...."
> "connected ...."
> "escape character is '^]'." then after a few moments we
> get: "connection closed by foreign host."
> where did we go wrong? Any hints, suggestions would be
> appreciated. Wayne ayottew@onlink.net

It looks like your box may be set to deny telnet connections. Take a
look at /etc/inetd.conf and make sure the line for telnet is set to port
23 and isn't commented out.

--Chris

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