I got thru this problem yesterday. Both FTP and TELNET were not installed when I installed REDHAT 7.2. So you need to make sure that "xientd", "telnet" and "wu-ftpd" are installed (rpm -q xientd, rpm -q telnet, rpm -q wu-ftpd) and if not install them. Then go to "/etc/xinetd.d" directory and you'll see files "wu-ftpd" ad "telnet". Edit these files, look at the last line that says "disable yes" and change "yes" to "no". Then reboot. LarryC >Message: 2 >Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 07:52:29 -0600 >From: shawn <fertch at mninter.net> >To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Telnet not working >Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >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 > >Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:01:55PM -0800, Jimmy Jam wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I just completed a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2, I tried to telnet from one of my other window machine to the Linux server but got a "Connection Refused" message. Does anyone know why I got this message? > > > For a very good reason: telnet is <trumpets="loud">INSECURE</>. > > You should not use telnet. > > Get ssh for windows: search the fine web for putty or terraterm/ssh. > > florin > > -- > > "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." > > 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 >