Re: Network Help

[Alson van der Meulen <alson@linuxfreak.nl>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:55:33PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> I know this is a Debian news group, but the networking stuff
> should be Linux platform independant. Right?
> 
> We just had a new Intel Itanium IA64 file server installed at the
> office.  I installed TurboLinux ( O/S came with system ).  The system
> is on a closed/secure LAN.  When I log into the system, I can ping
> other system on the LAN.  When I'm on another system I can ping the
> new IA64 system.  All seems to be OK.
> 
> What I can't do is rlogin/telnet/ftp/ssh into the new IA64 system from
> other machines on our LAN.  I removed the "#" comments from the
> ftp/telnet/shell/etc. lines in the /etc/inetd.conf file and restarted
> the IA64 system (yeah I know, but old habits are hard to break.
> Besides, no one is on the system yet except root.)
> 
> What am I missing?  What else do I have to do to activate
> rlogin/telnet/ftp/ssh services?  What can I look for when I get back
> to the office on Monday?
Try ipchains -L and look for deny rules, just having all policies set
to accept should be ok for a local lan.

Also have a look at the log messages, maybe the ftpd daemon isn't
found by inetd or can't be executed for some reason, does it work for
localhost?
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