telnet problem

[David Colebatch]

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 3:53 am, hui xu wrote:
> All,
>
> Thanks for everybody's answer to "switchs and hub problems".
>
> Now I have built my home network. One computer service as httpd, router,
> firewall and  dhcpd. The other computer as a client computer.
>
> I have assigned a fixed address to my client so I can communicate with
> these two computers. But the problem is:
>
> I use telnet "computer address". I got the reply with " accesss is
> refused". But I ping to that address. I works fine.
>
> Could anybody help me out?

You should look at ssh.  Despite being far more secure than telnet, it also 
has many more features which make it a more useful method than telnet.  (Even 
X11 forwarding is available! :)

-David
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