Remote Telnet and FTP not working

[Russ Walicki]

i just recently loaded RH 7.3. I can't seem to telnet or ftp to this new station no matter what I try? Does anyone have any ideas for me?

[Dirk Wiedemann]

Hello

- First check that inetd is running (ps -ef).
- If it runs, check the config file /etc/inetd.conf. Look for the line with telnet and ftp and remove the "#", if there is one in the beginning of the line.
- If you have made any changings to inetd.conf, you must restart the daemon. (e.g. looking for the PID in ps-ef, than "kill -HUP pid")
You can check also the ports the system is listing to. run "nmap -P0 localhost". It must show you both ports.
Hope it helps
Dirk

[D. Jackson_1 · Accepted solution]

See if this thread helps:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xdc735220af9bd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html


Good Luck

[Vernon Brown_3]

RedHat default is telnet and ftp disabled. Go to /etc/xinetd.d and look at the telnet file. Change the disable = yes to disable = no.

Same for the wu-ftpd file that is also there.

[Russ Walicki]

Thank you to everyone. Just a few things I have found out by using your responses to my question. RH 7.3 when I installed it doesn't use inetd,instead it is using xinetd.
The directory /etc/xinetd.d didn't have a file named telnet nor did it have a wu-ftpd. However, you have given me information that tells me I must create the files to get telnet and ftp working.

Thanks to all of you. Special thanks to the D.Jackson for referring the link to a prior discusson on this topic.

moreyrd

[Steven E. Protter]

Look into Proftpd,its supposed to be more secure. I will report results in my test environment in a few weeks.

xinetd is just next generation inetd. All above instructions work just fine.

Steve