Hi Scott, This might be too obvious, but are the services being run in inetd.conf? At least that's the file in /etc for my Slackware v9.1 that is in charge of starting demons like ftp, telnet, etc. Dave At 12:18 AM 3/12/2004, you wrote: >I am wondering what would cause a permission denied statement while >connecting to a remote computer. I am trying to help someone get his >Linux system set up but not sure what I need to have him do to fix this >problem. > > > >Scott Berry