remote access problems

[yasasvi]

I am running Red hat linux 7.1 on P-IV machine, 1Ghz, 248 MB Ram, 32Mb tnt riva.
I have set up linux server. But the problem is that i can't access it from other computers. I am able to telnet from the same machine, but not from the other machines.I checked /etc/hosts, hosts.allow and hosts.deny & /etc/xinetd.d/telnet. But it's of no use.Every time connection is getting refused.It's in network. Still it can't be accessed by other machines.

any ideas will be welcome?? :cool:

[c_guy]

You probablly have a firewall blocking the telnet port... try this...

at the command prompt type:

tail -f /var/log/messages

and watch the output when you try and connect from another computer... see if your getting dropped packets in the log files, if you are then you have a firewall of some kind blocking access..

btw, you should use ssh and not telnet for remote access. It's easy to set up and much more secure.

[yasasvi]

hi,

Thanx for your suggestion.It was behind firewall and it was preventing the remote access.As u said ssh is more secure.For my own machine, i use ssh only.Since the other machine is deptl, i can't help it.

Thanx and bye

suresh :D