Re: Telneting & FTPing to my Linux Box from a Win98 Box

[Claudius Li <aprentic retina min net>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Foung Vang wrote:

> 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"
which one does it say?
host not found would imply that either the dns is screwed up on your win98
box (but then you wouldn't be able to hit anything else from there
or that there's something wrong with the naming of your linux box
do you have a registered ip address for your linux box?
do you have a registered domain name for you linux box?
have you tried telneting in using the numerical ip address of you linux
box?
telnet is available (together witha bunch of other networking stuff) on
the RH cd as a package. 
if you do
rpm -qilp * > ~/packages
while in the packages directory of the cdrom you get a file which has all
the descriptions of the packages plus what files it installs called
packaages which will be in your home directory.
from there you can use your favorite pattern matcher to find whatever
package you need

> 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?
Yes. In fact you should always have at least one user account on your
system. When people say "It's really hard to crash linux." they actually
mean "It's really hard to crash linux, unless you're root."
you can't log into root via telnet because telnet sends your password in
plaintext.
That said you may also want to look into ssh it does alow logging in as
root remotely (although I still wouldn't recomend it) and it does a bunch
of other cool stuff such as encrypting everything that gets sent accross
the network. 

> And what files must I edit?
make sure you don't have your win98 box entered in /etc/hosts.deny
if /etc/hosts.deny contains an entrie which covers your computer (ex ALL)
you can put youre win98 box in /etc/hosts.allow

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