Shub Lahiri, Thank you for your assistance. Also my heartfelt thanks to the balance of you that took the time to respond to my post. All are very helpful. The telnet server was already installed so I manually started it. The ftp server was not installed so I installed it and manually started it. As a result of these actions, the telnet still does not operate but the ftp now does. I can now access from my "old" computer to the HP with ftp. I can also connect ftp as loopback inside the HP machine. I will now experiment and further evaluate what all this means. One related question: Just to ensure I am operating with the right daemons, are they "in.telnet" and "in.ftpd" respectively or am I working with the wrong files? They are the one's I am now manually starting. If correct, I will then have they started automatically. Thanks again to all... Harry ========================================================== On Sunday 01 September 2002 15:05, S. Lahiri wrote:
I had the same problem when going from 7.2 to 8.0. In 7.2, ftp and telnet services were installed by default but in 8.0 they aren't.
So, I had to manually install telnet server and ftp daemon and then turn those services on from the Yast2 inetd service startup screen.
HTH..
Shub Lahiri
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:49:41 -0700
From: Harry Wert
Subject: [SLE] SuSE 8.0 ftp & telnet problem To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
I have a new HP 750n computer with a fresh SuSE 8.0
professional install. It
is connected to my home LAN then to a Linksys router/dsl to
the Internet.
Also on this same network is an older computer running
SuSE7.3. Both of
these computers have access to the Internet and work very
well. My problem: I
desire to ftp, xftp, or telnet inside my LAN from one
computer to the other
for the purpose of using the older computer as a data
storage device for
backup of data from the HP machine. Here is what works. I can ftp or telnet from the HP (SuSE
8.0) computer TO
the older (SuSE 7.3) computer but NOT from the older
computer to the HP. I
can ping both machines from one to the other. Eliminating
the router/dsl
leaving only the local LAN does not solve the problem. Both
machines have
ftp and telnet turned "on". Both machines have the command
rcinetd start
initiated as part of the boot sequence and "TOP" shows them
running. The
error messages I see when attempting to connect FROM
the "old" computer TO
the HP are: telnet 193.168.1.100 (address of the HP
computer) "connection
closed by foreign host". When I try the same command with
ftp I get "421
Service not available, remote server has closed
connection". If I go from
the HP to the old computer everything works. By the way,
substituting the
correct name (harry) instead of the 192.168.1.100 causes
exactly the same
error messages. I have read everything I can find searching SuSE support,
info pages, man
pages, and google search but nothing I try will make it
work. After two
weeks of trying to solve this on my own, It is obviously
beyond my
comprehension. Can anyone help or point me in the right
direction?
Thanks in advance...
Harry Wert Physicist
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