[lug] Beginner Question

[Greg Horne]

I was talking about Telneting/FTPing INTO my linux box from a windoze box.

Greg Horne


>From: "Holshouser, David" <dholshou at ball.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: "'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>Subject: RE: [lug] Beginner Question
>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:30:21 -0600
>
>When you refer to telnet/ftp not working on a workstation install.
>Are you saying that you cannot telnet *OUT* to another machine, or that you
>get a connection refused or some such when trying to telnet *TO* the newly
>installed box.
>
>If you are talking about the latter (telnet/ftp TO the box), you are not
>talking about telnet/ftp, instead you are talking about the servers/daemons
>(telnetd/ftpd) that will be receiving these connections.
>
>A workstation should not be running any servers and thus they 
>(telnetd/ftpd)
>aren't installed.
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Horne [mailto:jeerygh at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:23 AM
> > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject: Re: [lug] Beginner Question
> >
> >
> > When I was a "beginner" I installed RH7 (workstation install)
> > and discovered
> > that ftp and telnet do not work.  I tried installing the packages
> > individually, but it still would not work.  So I formatted
> > and reinstalled
> > this time doing it custom style, making sure to select ftp
> > and telnet.
> > Since Red Hat has a dependency checker it (I guess) found
> > everything I
> > needed and worked.  So either A. Use "Server Installation" or
> > B. Use "Custom
> > Installation" making sure to select ftp and telnet.  BTW, am
> > I correct in
> > assuming FTP and TELNET are disabled by default on
> > workstations for security
> > reasons?
> >
> > Greg Horne
> >
> > >From: "Chad Wasinger" <cswasinger at qwest.net>
> > >Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > >To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > >Subject: [lug] Beginner Question
> > >Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:58:35 -0600
> > >
> > >Now that finnaly have RH7.1 installed, my Telnet seems to be
> > disabled. I
> > >checked no firewall on install because I wanted to configure
> > that myself.
> > >So
> > >it is not blocked by a firewall. I checked etc/services and
> > telnet is not
> > >commented out. Has anyone seen this?
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >
> > >Chad
> > >
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