ftp and telnet.

[cris]

I tried ftp localhost, and telnet localhost, and I got access denied.  It
must be as you suggested.  Were would I find an in.ftpd and an intelnetd
servers in an rpm format for fedora?  Do you know where I can download such
servers?Thanks a lot for the help.
Cheers,
Cris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis at shellworld.net>
To: "cris" <filastin48 at hotmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for
Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: ftp and telnet.


> First, can you ftp and/or telnet to your machine, from your machine?
> That is, from a shell prompt on the machine in question, what happens when
> you type:
>
> ftp localhost
>
> If you get some kind of connection refused message there, you probably
> don't have in.ftpd, or in.telnetd; or some other FTP/Telnet server,
> installed.  Get one, and you should be okay.
>
> If it works, you probably have a /etc/hosts.allow, and/or /etc/hosts.deny
> problem (man hostaccess).
>
>
> On Tue, 4 May 2004, cris wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> > I have a question which is probably elementary to most of you.  I tried
to
> > ftp and telnet to my linux computer from another computer in order to
> > transfer a large file, but I got connection refused.  As far as I know I
> > disabled the firewall on my linux box to allow me to telnet or ftp.  I
typed
> > the line command as follows for ftp. ftpnumerical address and hit inter.
I
> > did the same with telnet and also got connection refused.  any ideas on
how
> > to go about that
> > Regards,
> > Cris?
> >
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