On Saturday 05 January 2002 07:52 am, you wrote: > The other thing too is that if you are trying it as root, won't happen. > A lot of distros shut off remote logging in as root if telnet is enabled > still. > > Shawn That would be true if he actually got a connection, but he is getting a "connection refused" which means that telnetd is not running or that the port is blocked -munir