Hi all, Right now I'm willing to try just about anything short of a hammer to get telnet working on my LAN at home. There is no switch/hub, so that should not be an issue. I've configured xinetd to allow for telnet and have my /etc/hosts configured for a priavate network with static IP addresses. /etc/host.conf reads: order hosts, bind /etc/hosts.allow reads: ALL: 192.168.0. /etc/hosts.deny is empty /etc/xinetd.d/telnet reads: service telnet { flags = REUSE socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd log_on_failure += USERID disable = no } Ping works beutifully, so the network is there and the machines can see eachother. The way I understand it, I should now be able to use telnet. I've also tried setting xinetd to allow fo ftp and rlogin. But all of them report that the connection is refused, or something to that effect. I can only assume that this is some kind of permission problem, but I'm not at all sure of that. If any of you know of something that I'm missing, please be so kind as to trow this poor sod a bone. Thanks, Dirk. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list