Re: Not able to connect to my system at home from work

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> I have a debian 2.4.8 running on laptop and I have an
> adelphia cable connection for connecting to the
> Internet.but I am not able to connect to my home
> machine from some other computer via telnet or
> anything else .

Is telnetd running? If so you probably should replace it w/ ssh, but if
you need telnet:

apt-get install telnetd

> do I need to do some setup or configurtion to be able
> to connect to my home machine via internet .

Exactly how do you connect? Are you typing in the ip number or something?

Fred Ollinger