gnanasenthil654321

HAI,
i am using openSUSE 11.1 on my laptop and it is connected to other computers via LAN. one of the computers is running the same linux distro as mine ,the other s are running windows xp.i am unable to telnet from my computer to ger connected with other computers.
Especially with the computer running linux ,though i know the name of the computer i am unable to find the ip address and then connect to it.
should i disable the firewall on my computer or on the other computers or both (if that is the problem)
kindly help me

gogalthorp

Have you enabled the telnet server on the target machine?

http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Telnet_SSH_Walkthru

Unlike Windows most services must be turned on to use them, though I think in windows telnet is defaulted to off also.

mikesd

SSH is more secure. But also, once you start telnet or ssh you will probably want to allow access to the ip's or domains that will be connecting in /etc/hosts

mikesd

you'll have to also open the port in suse firewall

Yast --> Security and Users --> Suse Firewall

telnet you may have to manually add the port.

fsimon

Check the /etc/hosts.allow and including the line

in.telnetd: ALL ...

You must also install the telnet package and enable it in xinetd. Using Yast to to this.