Thanks for all the quick responses! When I did the install(s) I'm pretty sure I installed telnetd, but I'll need to double-check. I had already taken care of the 'hosts' files on each machine, but I didn't know about the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. I'll have a look at that this evening. Thanks! Mike -------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com -------------------------------------------- It said "Requires Windows 95 or better." So I installed linux... -----Original Message----- From: Damian Ohara [mailto:daohara1@email.mot.com] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 12:06 PM Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] telnet problems Oh yes, And also check that telnetd is installed. It isn't by default :0) Damian Damian Ohara wrote:
Mike,
It may be name resolution. I think that was the cause of these symptoms on some of my systems recently.
On both machines, make /etc/nsswitch.conf point to "files" first and add the opposite SuSE machine into the /etc/hosts file.
I think that cleared it for me.
Damian
Cleary_Mike@emc.com wrote:
I have a 2-machine network set up at home - sharing a DSL
connection through a router. I have SuSE 8.0 on both machines.
Each can ping the other, but that's about it. I can't telnet from
one machine to the other ( I get "connected" at first, then it
says the connection was terminated by the remote machine).
On either machine, I cannot telnet to localhost either. I went
to the SuSE knowledge base and tried the suggestions I found
there w/ no joy. Inetd is enabled, the telnet & ftp services are
enabled, etc.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Mike
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