Very Computer

> As you can tell, I am new to Linux.  I replaced my installation of RH6.1
> with RH7.0.  Now I can not telnet or ftp to this box.  I followed the
> poorly documented instruction on RH web site on how to activate telnet but
> it did not help.

> Regardless of how I feel about this problem, I am hoping some one must
> have solved this mystery before me and with a lesser degree of
> frustration.

> Finally the question is:  what do I do next?

> Eric

> > As you can tell, I am new to Linux.  I replaced my installation of RH6.1
> > with RH7.0.  Now I can not telnet or ftp to this box.  I followed the
> > poorly documented instruction on RH web site on how to activate telnet but
> > it did not help.

> > Regardless of how I feel about this problem, I am hoping some one must
> > have solved this mystery before me and with a lesser degree of
> > frustration.

> > Finally the question is:  what do I do next?

> > Eric

> I have seen a half dozen of these over the last few weeks.  Why?  With Red
> Hat 7.1 they have supplied a really nice feature, a firewall. Red Hat may
> want to state during installation that telnet and other services are
> blocked by default.

> As root, run /sbin/lokkit and select customize.  Enable the features you
> need; dhcp, ssh, telnet, http, smtp, and ftp.
> --
> Richard Harmonson
> Red Hat Certified Engineer
> Kinetotech Consulting

> Is there anything similar for RH 6.2? After upgrading from 5.2 I can't do
> ftp. Actually, when I run ftp, I can see the ftpd handling the call on the
> Linux side, but it always says user/password are invalid on the client
> side. I got ssh and telnet working tho'.

> Stan

>> > As you can tell, I am new to Linux.  I replaced my installation of
>> > RH6.1
>> > with RH7.0.  Now I can not telnet or ftp to this box.  I followed the
>> > poorly documented instruction on RH web site on how to activate telnet
>> > but it did not help.

>> > Regardless of how I feel about this problem, I am hoping some one must
>> > have solved this mystery before me and with a lesser degree of
>> > frustration.

>> > Finally the question is:  what do I do next?

>> > Eric

>> I have seen a half dozen of these over the last few weeks.  Why?  With
>> Red Hat 7.1 they have supplied a really nice feature, a firewall. Red Hat
>> may want to state during installation that telnet and other services are
>> blocked by default.

>> As root, run /sbin/lokkit and select customize.  Enable the features you
>> need; dhcp, ssh, telnet, http, smtp, and ftp.
>> --
>> Richard Harmonson
>> Red Hat Certified Engineer
>> Kinetotech Consulting

> As you can tell, I am new to Linux.  I replaced my installation of RH6.1
> with RH7.0.  Now I can not telnet or ftp to this box.  I followed the poorly
> documented instruction on RH web site on how to activate telnet but it did
> not help.

> Regardless of how I feel about this problem, I am hoping some one must have
> solved this mystery before me and with a lesser degree of frustration.

> Finally the question is:  what do I do next?

> Eric