update:Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thanks to everybody who helped. I did install ddt-client and register accounts on both machines, but don't seem to be able to get that working yet. However, both ssh and scp work beautifully between the two machines just using ip addresses. The ppp is probably not static but can be found out easily

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:26, Martin Wuertele wrote: > and even sftp which works as a command line ftp program but uses the ssh > tunnel I believe gftp (ftp client for gtk) also supports sftp -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thanks to everybody for warning me about the dangers of telnet and ftp; I did sort of know this, but wasn't sure what to do about it. -- Cheryl

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Osamu! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > For ssh use package name "ssh" (openSSH version). > > For ftp, use wu-ftp or pro-ftp if you do not know too much like me. > There is more users for these. But merely transferring files, there is > a command called "scp" in ssh package. and ev

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:14, Mario Vukelic wrote: Correcting myself, oh well > Does the remote (friends') box have a dynamically assigned IP (probably, > when it's on PPP)? Then you need a way to find out the current IP when > you want to log in. I.e., you call your friends and you want them to >

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:09:03PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Thanks for the info. Actually, I worded it poorly; of course i know the > difference between ftpd and telnetd; I meant the difference between > different server packages in these two categories. At least for ftp > servers, there are s

Re: hdis: was; ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, actually, apt-get install dhis didn't get me anything. Neither did a package search at www.debian.org; neither did a search of my /var/lib/dpkg/availble file. The website, however, does exist! -- Cheryl

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 19:37, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it > once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a > problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one > please steer me to it an

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thanks for the info. Actually, I worded it poorly; of course i know the difference between ftpd and telnetd; I meant the difference between different server packages in these two categories. At least for ftp servers, there are several. I guess it's time to learn about communicating with ssh. --

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:53PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: | I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it | once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a | problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one | please stee

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Cheryl! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it > once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a > problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one > please steer me to i

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it > once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a > problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one > please steer me to it and

Re: ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
>1. differences between telnet and ftp servers--right now I have ftpd and >telnetd-ssl installed on both boxes. Telnet is th espawn of Satan - use ssh to communicate. ftp stands for file transfer program. ITs a program for transferring files. >2. ip address to use: I have a cable connection to th

ftp and telnet between computers

2002-02-17 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one please steer me to it and I will read it. My questions involve: 1. differences bet

Re: FTP and telnet SOLVED

1999-10-26 Thread Evan Burkitt
At 02:34 99.10.23 -0700, aphro wrote: check to see if there is anything in /etc/hosts.deny At 01:18 99.10.23 -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. At 00:24 99.10.23 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: I'd first look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread aphro
2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Evan Burkitt wrote: > I have just installed Debian 2.1 and need some advice on how to get FTP and > telnet working. For ftp I can see that inetd runs i

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/10/99 Art Lemasters wrote: Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Read the documentation (man pages, /usr/doc, everything) very thoroughly, because there are serious security risks involved with mistakes made at configuring FTP and telnet. BTW, proftpd and ssl telnet are the

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'd first look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

Re: FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Art Lemasters
Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Read the documentation (man pages, /usr/doc, everything) very thoroughly, because there are serious security risks involved with mistakes made at configuring FTP and telnet. BTW, proftpd and ssl telnet are the best way to go with those if you

FTP and telnet

1999-10-23 Thread Evan Burkitt
I have just installed Debian 2.1 and need some advice on how to get FTP and telnet working. For ftp I can see that inetd runs in.ftpd when an ftp client attempts to connect, but the operation fails on the client side with "Connection closed by remote host". On the server I have a user