How can I get a telnet session between NT and Linux computers ?

[Guest_imported]

hi,
I have a Linux and a NT computer and want a telnet session between them. Pinging works bothside but a telnet session doesnt run. From the NT computer I see the Linux shares and can access them but in the Linux computer no shares are listed, also the NT computer name isnt listed. Finaly i will a telnet session between this 2 computers.Does anybody have an example file/s for this problem ?
Many thanks for every help

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

If it's a fairly current distro then you may find that the telnet daemon is not enabled by default. On Redhat, you would edit the file '/etc/xinetd.d/telnet' and change the 'disabled = yes ' entry to 'disabled = no'.

Then restart xinetd with :

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

You should then be able to telnet into the Linux box. If the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file does not exist then first do :

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 telnet on

Then try again.

Not quite sure what you mean by shares on the Linux box ? Are these Samba shares or NFS exports ? If you mean shares on the NT box then you should be able to do the following to list them :

smbclient -L ntservernetbiosname -N

You would normally just mount a SMB/CIFS share under linux as you would with any other filesystem. As such, there is no equivalent that I know of to 'network neighbourhood' in Linux to browse graphically - I could be wrong though!

Please note that some of the above is Redhat specific and may be different for other distributions.

Regards..