Re: remote login issue for RH 7.2

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:52:22 -0800
"Chan, Eddie" <eddie chan cacheflow com> quietly intimated:

> Hi,
> 
> I have freshly installed RH 7.2 on one of machine. After the
> installation, none of the remote connection work. I got connection
> refuse error message.
> 
> I understand that the RH 7.2 turn off inet services by default in
> /etc/xinetd.d/<files>. I have turned on the telnet, ftp... etc..
> (disable = yes). I was able to telnet from the current machine to
> iteselve but not from the other machine.
> 
> First I thought the connection issue. But I was able to ping the
> machine from other machine (Even DNS works). But it just didn't let
> the remote login(ssh, ftp, telnet...). It seems that the xinetd didn't
> start. So I turned on/off the xinetd and it gave me the same result.
> 
> More peculiar that I was able to ping and telnet to other machine from
> this machine but not other machine to this machine. 
> 
> Any clue! It seems to me that firewall is one something but I have no
> idea? Please help...
> 
> EDDIE

 I note that it appears you're saying you turned on telnet by setting
"disable=yes" and that would be backward. You don't want it disabled,
you want it enabled. The same would apply with some of the others, such
as ftp, ssh and so forth

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