well without samba it won't show up in explorer as for ssh and telnet you cannot use a netbios name unless samba is running and make sure you have ssh and telnet allowed[root@zeus xinetd.d]# cat telnet # default: on # description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \ # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication. service telnet { flags = REUSE socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd log_on_failure += USERID disable = yes } you'll want disable = no for telnet On Sunday 15 February 2004 23:16, Teja wrote: > I have Linux on my desktop and WinXP on my Laptop. > > But I am unable to see Linux on my Windows explorer, also I am unable to > telnet or ssh from winxp. > > I can ping linux ip successfully but cannot ssh or telnet. I am not sure > what I need do here in order to setup lan or I may be asking wrong > question.....can anybody show me the right way. > > thanks, > tej -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list