Do I need slip, ppp, or slip/ppp emulator?

[Debbie Fleith]

I need to configure a red hat 7.2 server for remote access by by 1) HP-UX clients using terminal emulation to dial in with "cu", 2) PC clients using Windows Dial Up networking.

Once connected, I need ftp and telnet services established.

What services do I need on the linux server to enable this?

[Ron Kinner]

Coming in on a dialup circuit you will need to use ppp for it to work.

Ron

[Ron Kinner]

Since you are using 7.2 you will need to enable ftp and telnet. edit /etc/xinetd.conf
and change "disable = yes" to "disable = no".

Restarting the system may be required to get it to take effect tho I've read you can do xinetd restart. There is also something about setting group to 0 to give it the correct permissions.

Read the man for xinetd.conf and also see:

http://linux902.tripod.com/access-services.html

http://www.xinetd.org/

Ron

[Mark Fenton]

Debbie,

"once connected, I need ftp and telnet...."
By which you mean that you will use ftp/telnet FROM the linux box to somewhere? Or do you mean that once connected, you desire to get files from or put files on the Linux box?

Once one of your clients has connected to the linux box, they will be a tty connected. In order to put files to or get files from, they will have to use a utility such as kermit or zmodem to transfer files.

If the Linux machine is only acting as a gateway to elsewhere, it doesn't need to run servers for ftp or telnet, merely have the binaries available for the users who have dialed in.

So you finally got the modem working?

Mark

[Debbie Fleith]

I knew already that I'd have to enable telnet and ftp services. I'm still unclear about what I need...

We need to be able to transfer large binary files with ftp, after we dial into this Linux box from Dialup networking.

Do I need ppp, slip, or a ppp/slip emulator or something else?