newbie networking question...

[spaceboy99]

Do I need to be logged in on my home machine to be able to telnet in from external locations, or does the hosts.allow file refresh its content in some way? The other day I set my hosts.allow to ALL: ALL and left it logged in, then ran to a computer lab and was able to telnet/ftp into it. Now, today, I booted it w/out logging in (ie it is at the Gnome login), went to work, and I can't access it via FTP, Telnet, or VNC, either when I enter a FQDN or the actual IP of the machine. In fact, it won't even respond to pings. As an aside, the computer lab I used was on my subnet, and where I work is on a different subnet--does that matter? Any ideas what's going on?

spaceboy99
(who is mildly baffled at discovering that he can network better with win98 than with linux just now)

[FunkyBlueStick]

Hey dude,

Yeah you should be able to telnet in to your linux box without it being logged on. You have to make sure that the port which telnet is on is open for you to be able to do this.

It took me a while to get my networking settings sorted out and its really frustrating when you can go in to windoze and press the pretty button to do the work for you. Trouble is, in windows you don't really know whats going on behind that button. Hence, you get a number of 'IT pros' with MCSE's that think they know it but if you were to ask them to do anything more complex than press the start button they'd colapse http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Hope this helps.........

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Yours with Peace and Love

Funky..