Can't Telnet and FTP into my Machine

[taneujin]

I just installed RH7.2 but I can't seem to telnet or ftp from outside to my machine. Is there something I have to edit? I did not have a firewall in the server,

 

[sleipnir214]

First, I strongly recommend that you not run telnet on your machine. It is not secure, and sshd is readily available for Linux.


Is the IP address on your machine a private address or a routeable address? If it's private does some firewall or router external to your machine know how to forward to your machine?

Do you have a default gateway configured on your machine?

Are your daemons running? ______________________________________________________________________
TANSTAAFL!

 

[taneujin]

Its a private IP and there is no firewall blocking.
But I guess hte problem lies with the daemon.

I don't know how to check if they are running.

If they are not running, how do I start them?

 

[haneo]

redhat install a firewall by default (iptables) it do not let incomming connection to your pc, so you must disable it:
#iptables -F
#iptables -t nat -F

to not start iptables rules at startup do this :
#chkconfig --level 2345 iptables off

NB: you can see the the actual config by this
#chkconfig --list iptables

 

[fluid11]

If you really want to run telnet, and not ssh which is freely available from

http://www.openssh.org

by the way, then you probably want to launch the telnet daemon from xinetd. Open the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file in a text editor (vi) and change the "disable = yes" line to "disable = no". Then restart the xinetd service with the "service xinetd restart" command.


ChrisP

 

[taneujin]

Thanks alot fluid11

Do I enable FTP from there too?
I have already installed wu-ftp.

 

[fluid11]

Yes, for Wu-ftp you do (normally). I prefer using ProFTPd (

http://www.proftpd.org)

as a standalone daemon, but thats my preference.


ChrisP