Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:13:16 -0000 From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> To: "Jeff LaMarche" <jeff_lamarche@mac.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Can't telnet or FTP Message-ID: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKAENGKKAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <86B3B446-2708-11D7-B33F-003065CD9124@mac.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jeff LaMarche > I just did a clean install of 4.7 (I was running 4.0 previously) on a > machine that I'm using as primarily as a network gateway and firewall > and also as a file server. It installed fine and is working natd & ipfw > are working beautifully. However, I am unable to telnet or ftp into the > box using either adaptor's ip address - I get a "connection refused" > message. I did set up anonymous ftp access during the install. > > I'm assuming that I did something wrong in the setup to make it disable > remote access. Can anyone tell me what I might have done and how I can > re-enable remote access to this box? Jeff: You need to uncomment the relevant entries in /etc/inetd.conf and the restart inetd. BTW: you might want to consider using ssh in place of telnet. ssh is enabled by default and provides an encrypted session. Cheers, Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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