Telneting & FTPing to my Linux Box from a Win98 Box

[Foung Vang <foung vang esstech com>]

I was wondering what serverices/programs do I need to load up during boot,
if any, to be able to telnet to my Linux box from my Win98 box?
I recalled trying it before and was unable to telnet in saying something
like "host not found" or "deny"

Do I need to create an account other than Root on my Linux box in order to
telnet in?
Also, does this applys to FTP as well or is it safe to say that I can always
FTP anonymously?

And what files must I edit?

What I am able to do right now is peer to peer networking using Samba and it
works.
Pinging between before machine works.


Thanks!