[Techtalk] Re: [Newchix] Installing and configuring Telnet Server, also: Printer gets even stranger

[Eeva Järvinen]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Shearer, Laura wrote:

> I'm fairly new to UNIX, but learning my way around. So I apologize if this
> is a basic question.
> 
> I have a Red Hat 7.2 box that I'm trying to get Telnet Services running on.
> 
> I installed telnet-server-0.17.20.i386.rpm without any obvious problems.
> 
> I also installed xinetd-2.3.3-1.i386.rpm, seeing as it would not let install
> the telnet server without this being installed.
> 
> Are there any configuration changes that need to be made before the telnet
> server will start accepting connections. All I want to be able to do is
> telnet to the linux box within our internal network and as the way things
> are now, it's not accepting telnet connections.

Running RH 7.2 myself, I think your firewall is stopping the telnet 
packets altogether (see ipchains). I also suggest you connect to your box 
using ssh: easier to use, and MUCH safer. Run `Service Configuration' 
(serviceconf) and check `sshd' (SSH service daemon). You need to have a 
SSH client. In *nix systems, you can usually just type `ssh 
<hostname>'. Telnet, on the other hand, sends your keystrokes from the 
Telnet terminal to your Linuxbox completely unencrypted (including 
passwords), so it might not be such a good idea unless you're perfectly 
certain all of your network is safe. This is, I think, the reason why a 
regular RH 7.2 installation does not enable Telnet services.

What does your Linuxbox say if you type: `telnet localhost' on a local 
console? If it refuses, it's probably the firewall.

Oh do not apologize. I'm still very much a newly hatched chick myself, 
and I just happened to know this. 

And now back to my printer:

It prints USASCII text files like it should, filter converts \n's to 
LF+CR's, but if I try to print a Latin-1 encoded text file, staircasing 
occurs again! It seems `magicfilter-t' or something thinks anything not 
7-bit text is not text. Any ideas how to make a printer filter (if that's 
what they're called)?



love,
Eeva