unable to telnet on a LAN.

[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.