Hi all, I have linksys router sharing my dsl connection with 3 pc's. 1 is a W2Kpro,another is WinXp, and a new ultra 5 box with solaris 8. From the Ultra I can ping all the machines on my network including the router(vise-versa. I can't telnet/ftp into the Ultra 5. When I type "telnet (Ip)" it ask's me for my login and password. Once I enter the password, I get a message saying "not on system, connection to host lost". when I try to ftp it asks me for my login and password, I try to login as root/pass, but it says login incorrect?? Another Problem I have is connecting to the internet through my Ultra? The only page I can open is Hotmail????? When I try to bring up another site it just sit's there waiting for a reponse???? I believe that i've configured my resolv.conf,nic,defaultrouter,defaultdomain,nsswitch.conf files correctly?? Can anyone help me Please!!! Thanks

for the second question. you must put in the dns servers. this will the only way you will be able to get to the web the first question, you might have to modify your /etc/default/login to let you remotely login as root. if you have a local passwd the login as you the su - to root. use the w2k machine to find my dns servers to connect to last thing...make sure your /etc/nsswitch.conf has in the passwd field file nis (this way it will try to resolve from the local entries first.) good luck D

if you try to ftp with root then you have to remove the root entry from /etc/ftpusers Then it will work much beter

You shouldn't be logging in as root over telnet or ftp anyhow :) This will be prevented by default by the CONSOLE line in /etc/default/login You can comment this line out with a # to allow root login remotely.

The /etc/default/login is only for preventing root login via telnet and/or rlogin/rsh/rcp ftp doesn't look into the /etc/default/login file, but in the /etc/ftpusers -file All these tools are of course very insecure.. but if required you can test it! Within a private network its not a problem but if anybody can snoop within your network it sees a nice ASCII password passing by. Have fun with it