[techtalk] Debian woes

Dan Nguyen nguyend7 at cse.msu.edu
Sat Jul 8 02:01:19 EST 2000


On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:02:50AM -0400, Kath wrote:
> I have a Debian box here running wu-ftpd and telnetd.  For some
> reason, it refuses to allow my Windows box to access those services
> (upload, download, access).  However my Mandrake box is able to
> connect and upload/download/access to it.

Can you get to other services?  telnetd is a inetd service and wu-ftpd
can be run via inetd.  You should check /etc/hosts.deny to see if
tcp_wrappers will be dropping your connection.  Other tahn that it is
difficult to diagnose your problem without further information.

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