Re: Starting telnet services on a Winblows machine.

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 03:51:51PM +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
>  Right...
> 
>  I`ve now got 4 machines on the flat LAN, and it all seems to be running
> pretty much to plan.

	Well done!

>  However, how on Earth do I get the Winblows (`98) machine to accept
> telnet (also possibly ftp and NFS) connections from the linux boxes?

	Unlikely... telnet is a terminal emulator, so you could (I
guess) access your machine and run DOS or something like that :). You
may try vnc, which allows you to have your Windows session in a window
in X (or Windoze), and viceversa.

	As for NFS, there are some clients, but I can't think of any
free one. Easy solution, export the NFS shares as SMB (samba) shares.

	As for ftp, and by what people tell me of MP3 sites using some
Windows based FTP server that goes by the name WarFTPD or something
similar :) But go for samba: nice 'n' easy :)

>  Also is there a file similar to /etc/hosts on a Windoze machine to save
> me the bother of keying IP addresses?

	Since I don't use Win, I'm not sure, but I guess you can just
assign the computer an IP address, save it, and you're done :-?
Presumably, it will be under "Network Configuration" or similar

	Hope that helps a bit...
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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