telnet not working

[shahryar ahmed]

Hello
i am facing a problem. i have two systems. i have installed the telnet-server package. i have fedora core 3 and make changes in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file.but other system on which i have installed redhat 9. i am not able to login on fedora through telnet. and displaying the connection refused message. but i am successfully logging on localhost. please tell me in which files i have to makes changes.

Regards
Shahryar

[remi]

1/ have reload xinetd ?

2/ have you firewall enable ?

3/ to connect linux to linux you should probably prefer ssh.

Remi.

[bitrain]

Use ssh to login, it is more secure then telnet.
Your firewall blocks the incomming requests I think. Do you still have the defualt firewall (iptables)?

[shahryar ahmed]

Hello
Thanks for ur reply. how do i check that my firewall is enable and if enable how i allow the telnet traffic to the telnet server

Regards
shahryar

[pparks1]

You must modify /etc/sysconfig/iptables. Set it to allow TCP port 23 traffic.

Just as a test, run
service iptables stop
then try telnet.

If it works, you know it is firewall

[kg4cbk]

you can use system-config-securitylevel to modify iptables rules to allow ssh and/or telnet.

service iptables status

will show you the current rules that are loaded.

As already mentioned you should consider using ssh instead of telnet due to security concerns.

[crackers]

And, yes, RH9 has SSH installed and it is compatible with FC4 (just covering all the bases).

[shahryar ahmed]

Hello
Thnanks for u peoples for u giving me such wonderful advices, i have learnt alot. i have solved my problem by allowing the incoming request on server for telnet. now i can telnet to my server. i will use ssh insteaad of telnet

Regards
shahryar