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character is...' or 'Connection closed by...' but I think that's normal.  I
do get the error message though, right before I'm disconnected.  On dos I
just get nothing but a cursor, then when I type (no echo) and hit return I
get disconnected: 'Connection to host lost.'

> daemon. Assuming
> you are using RH, run as root first a status check:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/identd status
> 
> Assuming it is running, then stop it temporarily:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/identd stop
> 
> Try your successful version again. If it fails to allow you in, you

Using SuSE.  Found identd, did this, I was still let in from work.  In fact,
same results all around.
(I'm actually telnetting using securecrt, no SSH.  Should have clarified.)

> that the client end responds to identd requests. So also try the
> reverse, though I'm not certain it will be any more than a subjective
> clue: from the linux box, telnet to port 113 of the 
> connecting sources,
> see if things work or fail as before.

Since the machine at work is behind a firewall, I can't telnet into it from
outside.  No telnet daemon on the Windows box, either... any good ones out
there? :)

I suspect that if I took this laptop to work and tried to connect to home
from there, it would work fine.  Maybe I'll take it to work tomorrow and
test this.

Thanks,

Chris

> 
> Before I confuse you with "maybe" suggestions, go ahead and give it a
> try. I've wanted to turn on auth port in my Win 2k machine, but I've
> never been able to figure out how to enable it. And the MS 
> site doesn't
> give the information. I suppose auth port requires one to pay for a
> third party package on win.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: D. Stimits [mailto:stimits at idcomm.com]
> > > Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 8:39 PM
> > > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > > Subject: Re: [lug] telnetd problem
> > >
> > >
> > > Chris Wade wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I use SecureCRT at work to telnet from Win2000 to my Linux
> > > machine at home.
> > > > I've got a cable modem at home with a hub going off to the
> > > linux machine and
> > > > two windows laptops, all with separate IP addresses.  So
> > > picture Cable
> > > > Modem, Hub, then the three branching off from there... I
> > > would like to have
> > > > the laptops plus one macintosh going through the hub to the
> > > linux box to the
> > > > cable modem, but that's another issue.
> > > >
> > > > When I try to telnet now from my laptop to the linux box,
> > > using its IP, I
> > > > get 'telnetd: getnameinfo' and connection aborted, while at
> > > work it works
> > > > fine.  Any obvious reasons why this would be so?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Chris
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> > > Minor possibility, I'm not familiar with what the errors 
> would show up
> > > as, but maybe it is an auth issue? From the location that 
> works, is it
> > > possible to telnet to port 113 of the target machine for 
> cases that
> > > work, but not able to do so from the location that fails? E.G.,
> > > telnet 1.2.3.4 113
> > > (if it allows connect, just type garbage and hit enter,
> > > you've verified
> > > auth is open)
> > >
> > > There's a good chance it has nothing to do with auth, but 
> sometimes
> > > things are set to require it.
> > >
> > > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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