hi all
when i telnet machine B from any solaris machine as
$telnet (ip of machine)
i received following message
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

but i am doing telnet from to machine B to any solaris machine

regards

Well, comment the line out of
Console = /dev/console in the /etc/default/login.

best wishes.

Hi there, commenting out “CONSOLE=/dev/console” in /etc/default/login file will allow remote login by root, but will compromise the security.

By default, root is not used for remote login.

While trying telnet to your machine B, did you use “root” account from other machines? If you were using “root” account while connecting to other machines from machine B, then probably /etc/default/login file in all your machines (except B) is like “#CONSOLE=/dev/console”. This “CONSOLE=/dev/console” line works on “root” account only for remote login.

If you were trying, using non-root account for telnet and you could not login to machine B from other machines, please check the existence of a file named /etc/nologin in machine B. If this file exists in your machine (probably B), you would not be able to login to that machine via telnet using non-root account because right after entering the passwd, your connection would get closed by foreign host.

If you're telnetting to the machine and just getting connection refused then this means that the machine is not accepting the incoming connection....(or most likely).

Is the telnet service commented out in /etc/services by any chance? Can you ping out or connect to anything else from the machine that you're having a problem connecting to? Maybe someone's remapped the telnet port to something else? :)

or maybe a windoze box has the same IP on the network as the nix box and is the one refusing a connection (seen this before).

the /etc/default/login CONSOLE line only determines whether or not root login can be done remotely from a session. If you're not getting at least a Login: prompt then the problem is something more fundamental.

on the problem machine perhaps do an ifconfig -a to see if everything looks okay, and also check that inetd is running.

Also check /etc/inetd.conf to see if telnet is enabled, and also /etc/init.d/inetsvc for any anomalies (ie check that the bottom line isn't commented out).

Maybe posting a bit more info would help. Are you running through a router, what IP ranges etc etc..

HTH

Mark

I ran into a similar problem, where I couldn't telnet to my machine, after installing redhat Linux 7.2.

It turned out that RH Linux 7.2 uses xinetd in place of inetd, and that the RH 7.2 release has all xinetd services disabled as the default. I just went into /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and changed "disable = yes" to "disable = no", rebooted my machine, and my machine started accepting telnet connections.

Hope this helps,
--Gary

I ran into a similar problem, where I couldn't telnet/ftp to my machine,
I installed RH Linux 7.1.

I know that RH Linux 7.1 has xinetd services disabled as the default. I just went into /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and changed "disable = yes" to "disable = no", rebooted my machine, and still problem persists.
Please help,
sarada

I have 2 machines connected as peer to peer.
Machines are Solaris and Win2000.

I could ping both servers respectively but when I try to telnet from the win200 box I get "Could not establish connection".

I checked /etc/services and telnet is not commented out.

All ip's are unique to each other. (Solaris Machine is .1 and Win200 is .2)

I chceked ifconfig -a and I see loopback UP and hme0 (this is my nic) UP too.

I checked /etc/inetd.conf and telnet is not commented out and telnet is running.

To test my telnet, I consoled in to the solaris box and telnet to the "localhost" and I got in. This tells me that telnet services is running.

I checked the last line of /etc/init.d/inetsvc if it is commented out and it wasn't.

So does anybody have any idead about this problem.