Simple Network Setup for YDL (ver 2.0)

Romeyn Prescott yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Mar 28 09:15:01 2002


Edit /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and change the "disable" line to "no"

Also make sure that telnet is not commented out in /etc/services

Then send xinetd a kill -USR2 <pid> (or just reboot) and try to 
telnet to the box.

If that's too much geekspeak for you, I can elaborate.

...ROMeyn

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>
>On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 08:33 PM, Irena & Richard Jenkins wrote:
>
>>Hi there!
>>
>>I have two Macs at home in the same room.  Both have ethernet 
>>capability and I can use shared directories to move from one to the 
>>other quite easily ... for printing, etc.
>>
>>Now when I try the same thing in linux ... I really get to have some fun.
>>
>>I have given each a unique address in the 192.168.1.x range ... and 
>>a name etc.
>>
>>As a result I can successfully 'ping' each machine from the other.
>>
>>All attempts at something useful come to zero.  FTP and telnet 
>>connections are refused (thanks for the security) ... and i have 
>>not yet mastered shared directories!
>>
>>Is there a useful HOWTO that someone could direct me to please ... PLEASE!
>>
>>Richard
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>>Irena and Richard Jenkins                            VK1NDV & VK1RJ
>>Canberra:  rjenkins@alphalink.com.au
>>Mossy Point: vk1rj@acr.net.au
>>AUSTRALIA
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