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

[Marek Dohojda <Mark CARRERA COM>]

If you can ping then you are probably ok, as far as your setting goes.
Assuming of course you are using redhat, which has telnet already
configured for you.  Yes you can use root as your logon name.  Maybe it
isn't a good idea (ok it isn't a good idea) but you can.  What you have
to do is edit /etc/securetty file and put ttyp0, ttyp1, ttyp2 (that
should be enough, but you can go as many as 8 or so).  That will allow
you to use the root account over telnet.

Well hope this helps you
Marek Dohojda
Carrera Computers, inc.

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Claudius Li [mailto:aprentic retina min net]
		Sent:	Friday, October 30, 1998 10:50 AM
		To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
		Subject:	Re: Telneting & FTPing to my Linux Box
from a Win98 Box

		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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