I did ran strace on my xinetd process which was listening on the ports. My understanding is that when somebody connects using ftp, xinetd will do some more stuff and again start listening on the ports. But in my case, when I started ftp/telnet from windows client to the linux machine, the xinetd was still sitting on listening on the ports. So I guess, it is not even forking the in.wuftpd/telnetd processes. The configuration files for wuftpd will be read by wuftpd when it is started. But in my case, wuftpd itself does not seem be starting. When I did ftp from the same machine, it worked fine without any problem and I could see xinetd getting out of listening and finally forking in.wuftpd. This is my local net. How do I verify whether there is any firewall or not ? Somehow it looks like xinetd does not come to know that some client is trying to start a session. Any explainations ? Hiren Mehta Software Design Engineer Agilent Technologies -----Original Message----- From: Darrell A Escola [mailto:darrell@descola.net] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:41 PM To: hiren_mehta@agilent.com Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: setting up ftpd/telnetd on my linux machine The standard port for telnet is 23, for ftp is 21 - your windows clients are most likely talking to these ports. I use telnet from Windows NT 4.0 and 98 to access my Linux server on my internal network - dangerous to allow internet access to telnetd. Also, check your configuration files for wu-ftpd to make sure it is enabled. If you have a firewall you will need to configure the firewall to allow ftp and telnet access on the approprate interface. Darrell On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:34:23PM -0700, hiren_mehta@agilent.com wrote: > hi list, > > I am trying to setup ftpd/telnetd on my linux machine so that I can > telnet/ftp > from my windows NT machine. The linux machine is running RedHat 7.2 > > This is what I have done so far. > > -- I am able to do ping from my windows machine to the linux machine. > -- the packeges for telnetd and wuftpd are installed on my machine. > -- I checked my xinetd configuration and it looks ok. In fact, using > strace I checked that xinetd is listening on 15 ports. > ( select (18, [3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17], ...). > -- The output from chkconfig --list says that wu-ftpd and telnet are on. > and xinetd is on in runlevel 3 and 5. The current run level of the system > is 5. > > Somehow still I am not able to do ftp/telnet from my windows machine. > I would appreciate if somebody can help me setup ftpd/telnetd on > my machine. Looks like I am missing something but I am not able to > figure-out. > > Thanks and regards, > Hiren Mehta > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
