Help accessing RH 8.0 from outside

[maunir]

I have a question, how does one access RH 8.0 from outside, if you have cable/modem, DHCP ofcourse, a linksys router w/ fw and obviously a fw of its own.

 

[haneo]

Try telnet ot ssh. but you must start them :
for telnet :
#rpm -ivh telnet-sever*.rpm
#chkconfig telnet on

for ssh it is installed by default just start it:
#service ssh start

verify that port 23(telnet) or 22 (ssh) is open:
#netstat -tapn

good luck

 

[pupu]

...and make sure you have appropriate ports (22 or 23) open on all firewalls in the way, including local one.

 

[maunir]

thanks guys, i have ssh running already as it start automatically. I could ping the box internally but trying to get it from outside doesn't work. I will atleast try to telnet from my windows box and see if that works. Let see what happens...
oh also i know that firewalls have to be setup thru command line...with iptables...but how does one do it....i know a few things about it, but its definetly not checkpoint fw....
any help would be appreciated...
thanks

 

[pupu]

I can only suggest reading iptables-HOWTO. It is a complex task.

 

[maunir]

ok i got ssh working from my windows box, and i was able to login...i will try to see if my linksys box allows ssh connection and see if i could login in from outside...