Need help with Lan Config

I am looking for help setting up my lan. I want to be able to run a remote
X apps on another computer on the network. I know how to do this if I can
telnet or ssh into the machine I want to run the X programs from. My
problem is I can't figure out how to setup the machines to allow telnet or
ssh. My system is two linux machines connected to a Belkin cable router
(wired). They currently use DHCP but I can probably set them up to use
static IP. Both linux machines are running Mandrake9.1. I have tried the
networking Howto and various other sources but am not finding anything that
makes sense to me yet. I think the answer has to do with configuring
hosts.allow and hosts.deny, but I haven't been able to find any
documentation to explain how to set these up. Any pointers would be
greatly appreciated. I have pasted the output from ssh and telnet below if
that is useful. Thanks.

Kevin




[ktn@Gilligan ktn]$ ssh -l knemec Skipper
ssh: connect to host Skipper port 22: Connection refused
[ktn@Gilligan ktn]$ telnet Skipper
Trying 192.168.3.27...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
[ktn@Gilligan ktn]$

In message <QuFnb.52715$Tr4.114684@attbi_s03>, Kevin <(E-Mail Removed)>
writes
>I am looking for help setting up my lan. I want to be able to run a remote
>X apps on another computer on the network. I know how to do this if I can
>telnet or ssh into the machine I want to run the X programs from. My
>problem is I can't figure out how to setup the machines to allow telnet or
>ssh. My system is two linux machines connected to a Belkin cable router
>(wired). They currently use DHCP but I can probably set them up to use
>static IP. Both linux machines are running Mandrake9.1. I have tried the
>networking Howto and various other sources but am not finding anything that
>makes sense to me yet. I think the answer has to do with configuring
>hosts.allow and hosts.deny, but I haven't been able to find any
>documentation to explain how to set these up. Any pointers would be
>greatly appreciated. I have pasted the output from ssh and telnet below if
>that is useful. Thanks.
>
>Kevin
>
I don't know anything about Mandrake specifically but here's a couple of
suggestions.

Can the machines "see" each other? try a "ping". If so, check
/etc/inetd.conf for a telnet entry.
>
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Mike Eggleston
Fenland Software Ltd.
http://www.fensoft.co.uk

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 02:21:36 +0000, Kevin wrote:

> I am looking for help setting up my lan. I want to be able to run a remote
> X apps on another computer on the network. I know how to do this if I can
> telnet or ssh into the machine I want to run the X programs from. My
> problem is I can't figure out how to setup the machines to allow telnet or
> ssh. My system is two linux machines connected to a Belkin cable router
> (wired). They currently use DHCP but I can probably set them up to use
> static IP. Both linux machines are running Mandrake9.1. I have tried the
> networking Howto and various other sources but am not finding anything that
> makes sense to me yet. I think the answer has to do with configuring
> hosts.allow and hosts.deny, but I haven't been able to find any
> documentation to explain how to set these up. Any pointers would be
> greatly appreciated. I have pasted the output from ssh and telnet below if
> that is useful. Thanks.
>
> Kevin

Just a reminder - in this day and age - telnet is not recommended for
remote access, be it in a LAN or accessing sites from the Internet. Avoid.

Are you running the telnet or ssh server from your machines? It seems that
you only have the clients configured. Are you denying access to your
machines via the host_access modifiers (/etc/hosts.{allow,deny})?

>
>
>
> [ktn@Gilligan ktn]$ ssh -l knemec Skipper
> ssh: connect to host Skipper port 22: Connection refused
> [ktn@Gilligan ktn]$ telnet Skipper
> Trying 192.168.3.27...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> [ktn@Gilligan ktn]$

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Paolo Alexis Falcone
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