Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[dragula@xxxxxxxxxxx (Ben Rosenberg)]

wmmvdwee wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'am running a SuSe Linux 6.0 server, with some win95/98
> clients. From the clients
> I can telnet, ping to the Linux server.
> 
> I can also ping smbmount/smbclient etc from Linux to the
> clients, but however
> I can not telnet from Linux to the clients machines. Is this
> a wrong setting of
> my Linux network, or does win95/98 not allow telnet from
> outside?
> 
> When I try to telnet from Linux to Win95/98 clients it says:
> 
>  "connection refused"
> 
> Can somebody give an idea how to solve this problem.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rgs
> 

Wil,

        You can telnet to a Win 9.X series machine. There is a telnetd for
WinNT, but just based on how little you can do at a dos prompt...I am
not sure I would mess with trying to make it work on Win 9.X. I would
also suggest VNC..

Sorry My friend, multi-user and remote admin of Windows was an after
thought by M$.

just my 0.02


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