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You need to put the IP address of your Windoze box in your /etc/hosts
file.

Regards,

Chris

I have possibly a rtfm question, but since I can't find 'tfm' for this
question, I thought I'd post, I'm sure someone could answer it faster than I
can find the answer.  I am running Mandrake 6.1 as my server, on a peer-peer
relationship with my Windows 98 box.  I have the machines both on
192.168.1.x IP numbers, and all I use them for is file, print. drive
sharing.  I try to telnet into my linux box, from my windows box, and I've
only got through once out of about 40 tries.  Usually in the telnet title
bar it just sits there with "Telnet - 192.168.1.9" and the term windows sits
blank, and after a while I just get a login timed out messge.  I have made
sure that telnet is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf, and also that the ip of my
windoze box is put in /etc/hosts.allow.  Anyone know why this would be
happening...I sure don't.  Any help would be cool.  Thanks

Chris

Quote:> Hi Everyone,

> I have possibly a rtfm question, but since I can't find 'tfm' for this
> question, I thought I'd post, I'm sure someone could answer it faster
than I
> can find the answer.  I am running Mandrake 6.1 as my server, on a
peer-peer
> relationship with my Windows 98 box.  I have the machines both on
> 192.168.1.x IP numbers, and all I use them for is file, print. drive
> sharing.  I try to telnet into my linux box, from my windows box, and
I've
> only got through once out of about 40 tries.  Usually in the telnet
title
> bar it just sits there with "Telnet - 192.168.1.9" and the term
windows sits
> blank, and after a while I just get a login timed out messge.  I have
made
> sure that telnet is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf, and also that the ip
of my
> windoze box is put in /etc/hosts.allow.  Anyone know why this would be
> happening...I sure don't.  Any help would be cool.  Thanks

> Chris

copy your 'hosts' file from /etc to c:\windows\hosts on your win
machine.
(c:\windows, pls set to your values)
!!check that both machines are included in the file!!

if that does not fix it, look through your /var/log/messages and
warnings files,
see if you find anything there .

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And replace hostname with your windows box's homepage.

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192.168.1.9      hostname_of_server

and then added

192.168.1.13    hostname_of_client

and when I telnetted the sucker came up faster than I could blink....who
knew...anyways, now it will even resolve the host name of my server if I
connect using just the hostname not an ip, so thanks for your help....
;-)

Chris

Quote:

> Not completely sure (not at all, even :), but it might have to do with
> the server trying to do a DNS lookup of your local machine, which won't
> work well of course, unless you add it to /etc/hosts.
> Simply add to /etc/hosts:
> 192.168.1.9   hostname

> And replace hostname with your windows box's hostname.

> --
> Frank

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have you tried just telnetting into your Mandrake box from your Mandrake
box.  This is just to make sure you can even telnet at all...try that and
then post the output, it may be helpful.

Chris

Quote:> I'm having the same problem with telnet and have tried all of the
> suggested fixes. Running Mandrake/Redhat 6.1. I noticed that my
> inetd.conf file refers to a file called in.telnetd which is not present
> on my system. Anybody got any ideas? All other network functions (SAMBA,
> FTP, Internet via a proxy on an NT machine) are all working wonderfully
> well from other microsoft machines on the LAN, except the NT machine
> can't get to the Samba shares on the linuxbox, but that may be NT.

> --
> Anthony J. Peone
> Brockport Computer

>  "There is no spoon"

I tried telnet to localhost and to the linuxbox ip address both as root
and as a user with non-root privileges, from the linuxbox. Both times I
get a connection closed by foreign host message. I do get an escape
character is ^ message before this though.

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Brockport Computer

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Quote:> Hi folks,

> I tried telnet to localhost and to the linuxbox ip address both as
root
> and as a user with non-root privileges, from the linuxbox. Both times
I
> get a connection closed by foreign host message. I do get an escape
> character is ^ message before this though.

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> Anthony J. Peone
> Brockport Computer

I don't understand what I have done wrong, I try to add the localhost in
hosts.allow, but its still the same. I have notice that in the
hosts.allow file they talk about 'tcpd' (i don't know what it is) but it
seems to be missing from my /usr/sbin directory, could it be why I can't
use telnet?

thanks for any help

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