Red Hat Linux. Unable to Telnet

[tqvu]

Hi,

I am trying to set up a net work between 2 Linux machine using Red Hat Version 7.2. I am able to ping between the two machines and able to telnet to "localhost" but I am unable to telnet between the two machines. I got a "host refused" message. I turned the xinetd and telnet services on already. What did I miss and where can I look for this error.

Thank you.
Tvu

 

[cgswong]

Are you sure you are using the correct IP to connect via either machine? Does the user you are using have connect privileges via telnet to connect? Have you tried ftp or SSH to see if those work? The ONE ( HP-UX + Solaris + AIX + Tru64 = Unix)

 

[jaymzter]

Is it enabled in RH's firewall app lokkit? check that.

 

[hvn]

Check the file called "telnet" in /etc/xinetd.d, in this file there should be a line looking like this:

disable = yes

change the "yes" to a "no" and run

service xinetd restart

do this on both machines and you should now be able to telnet between the machines.

You'll notice wu-ftp, rsh, rlogin etc. in the same directory, so if you need any of these services enabled, follow the same procedure as above.