Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3166 mails)

[Derek Fountain <derekfountain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 March 2003 10:40, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> I need to enable telnet within my local network. The SUSE documentation
> said to start inetd via
>     rcinetd start
>
> Which I did (I'm running 8.1). When I tried telneting to the computer
> from another machine within the network, I get
>
> "Connecting To photon...Could not open a connection to host on port 23 :
> Connect
> failed"
>
> If I try ssh, I receive
>
> "Network error. Connection refused."
>
> Can one of you kind souls tell me what I'm missing?

Telnet is started from inetd (which is sort of like an "occasionally required 
services" manager). Ensure the telnet-server package is installed (it 
probably isn't by default because it's a security hole), then enable it via:

YaST2->Network Basic->Start/Stop services

You might need to restart inetd to make it reread it's config. I can't 
remember if YaST2 does that for you. Use:

rcinetd restart

The Secure Shell Daemon is started in exactly the same way as inetd. Just 
scroll further down to the sshd entry! Make sure you've got the openssh 
package installed.

-- 
"...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE 
...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, 
they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003