Dear Friends, I’ve installed RH Linux 7.0 and RH 8.0 on two different machines. That machine is having the Local Area Network IP is = 192.168.0.1, and 192.168.0.2. I want to telnet and FTP to the machines. But it shows me an error “The remote host refused connection.” The same case is there in FTP. So n e body suggest me step by step to enable the Telnet and FTP services on my two machines. Oh ya.. the two machine now can ping each others and the network is working. :) regard jeeseck

Can you 'ping' each machine from the other? If not, you do not even have basic connectivity completed yet. If you can, there are several possibilities: 1) telnet and/or ftp is not configured properly. Start with: man xinted and look in /etc/xinetd.d to figure this out. 2) You default firewall is denying access. To prove whether or not this is the case, temporarily stop the walls on both machines. If this is the cause, reconfigure the wall(s). HTH, Guy

generally, “The remote host refused connection.” means the host is reachable but the remote does not support the service. I am not sure of this, but is telnet (telnetd) still supported on recent linux? try ssh login_name@remote_host also try ftp localhost

Outgoing telnet is handled by the program /usr/bin/telnet Outgoing ftp is handled by the program /usr/bin/ftp Incoming telnet is handled by the telnet server (aka telnet daemon) Incoming ftp is handled by the ftp server (aka ftp daemon) The outgoing programs are installed by default The incoming servers are not installed by default in recent RedHat versions. I have two machines setup for telnet and ftp #1 RedHat 7.3 #2 RedHat 8.0 I do not remember whether RedHat 7.0 has the same setup as these. Let me know if this does not work. 1) Make sure telnet and ftp servers are installed. # cd /etc/xinetd.d # ls 2) you should see telnet and ftp setup files there. My file are called telnet and wu-ftpd. 3) if they are there open each one in an editor and change: disable = yes to disable = no 4) if these or similarly named files are not there then you need to install them and enable them as in step 3 For RedHat 8.0 the telent server is located on installation cd 2 /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/telnet-server-0.17-23.i386.rpm For RedHat 8.0 the ftp server is located on installation cd 3 /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.2-8.i386.rpm For RedHat 7.0 the telent server is located on installation cd 1 /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/telnet-server-0.17-7.i386.rpm For RedHat 7.0 the ftp server is located on installation cd 1 /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.1-6.i386.rpm Once the servers are installed, enabled, and you reboot you can telnet and ftp to normal user accounts on the other computer. To move outside the user directories on the other machine you must use su to change to the root user..