Re: networking

From: Doug Mitton (doug_mitton_at_hotmail.x.com)
Date: 11/01/03 

Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:03:51 -0500

jstaff47@earthlink.net wrote:

>Doug Mitton wrote:
>
>> Or, we are having a very basic concept problem between us, thats why
>> I repeat things a lot and try to explain them in a different way so
>> that we may see the light-bulb blink on! :-)
>
>And I appreciate that and I sure wish my lighbulb would click on

I may flicker a bit at first BUT we should be able to get that bulb
on! :-)

>THE BIG FIND
>
>I misled myself, telnet and ftp are not working on the linux box or
>not working correctly. I assumed that since they were checked in the
>services that all was ok. On closer inspection the (start stop
>restart) buttons are faded and will not work. I tried removing the
>check and trying to use restart and that will not work. So this is
>probably a large part of the problem all along.
>
>Do I need to download - reinstall ?? Where is the place to start with
>this?

I don't remember which distribution you are using ... but what you
need is the telnetd package. (We don't need both ftp and telnet at
this point.) The "d" at the end means it is the demon, daemon or
server for that service. On your system you will have "telnet"
(client) installed and you can have "telnetd" (server) installed.

Basically you go into your package manager and query which "telnet"
packages are installed. If there is no telnetd then that must be
installed and configured, the configuration is usually done as part of
the installation.

Normally I wouldn't suggest telnet BUT the alternative (ssh) is more
complicated to set up and Windows doesn't have a client installed by
default. So for now telnet it is.

Once you get it installed on linux you can test it by, on the Linux
machine, enter at the command prompt `telnet localhost`. If you get a
login prompt and can successfi=ully log in all is well.

>From the WinXP side you would enter at the command or start/run prompt
`telnet 192.168.0.2` which is the Linux machines IP address. The same
login prompt and successful login should result.

As a side note, the WinXP "route" information you posted previously
didn't show any "gateway" settings for 192.168.0.2 (the Linux machines
IP). Until this is resolved getting the WinXP machine onto the
internet via the Linux machine isn't going to work. This "telnet"
experiment should work just fine though!

Happy Day-After-Halloween! :-) 

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