[ltp] telnet

[jgomez]

Do you have console login for root enabled?

Do you have the telnet daemon (server) running on the Thinkpad?





At 09:59 PM 1/11/00 -0500, you 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
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>to a local lan using tcp/ip, ethernet and a hub. There is an NT box on
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>the LAN.
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>Everything seems to work great! We can ping the NT from the thinkpad
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>and vice versa, no problem. We can ftp the NT from the thinkpad and
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>vice versa; BUT we can't seem to telnet the thinkpad from the NT.
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>When we telnet from the NT to the thinkpad or telnet the thinkpad from
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>the thinkpad we get the following:
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>"trying ...."
>"connected ...."
>"escape character is '^]'."
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>then after a few moments we get:
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>"connection closed by foreign host."
>
>
>where did we go wrong? Any hints, suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>Wayne
>
><mailto:ayottew@onlink.net>ayottew@onlink.net
>
>

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