So now I'm at college (whoooo!) and I'd like to set up some sort of telnet service.
Here's the deal: my college runs a combination of Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Netware machines. The Netware machines are the servers, the Linux boxes are for the techs, the Solaris comps make up the CS labs, and the Windows boxes are for
everybody else.

I'd like to access my data from the Solaris labs. Now it would be possible to upload all the data to the Netware servers (we get some piddling amount of server space) and get a client for the Solaris machines, but I'd like to set up some sort of telnet
service so I can just hop into my computer from the lab. Unfortuanatly I know next to nothing (well maybe a bit more than that) about setting up a daemon to let me telnet/rlogin/whatever in.
 

Use SSH. Telnet should never be used over an insecure network. SuSE probably installed SSH by default and you just need to figure out if it's running and enable the server if it isn't. Solaris has an SSH client and you can store a Putty executable on your network drive for Windows access. SSH also has sftp and scp for file transfers. Novell offers a client for Linux.
 

Secure Shell (ssh) is good, but if you just want telnet, you probably want to use the inet daemon.
I'm not familiar with Suse's distribution of Linux, but in the distros I've used, you will either need to simply execute the inet daemon, such as this:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start

or, in more recent distros, you will need to modify the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file and change this line:

disable = yes

to

disable = no

and then restart the daemon:

# service xinetd restart

or, if that doesn't work:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
 

To get ssh working, you may want to modify the config file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Otherwise, simply load the daemon:

# service sshd restart

or, if that doesn't work (similar to above):

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart

Once again, none of this may work on Suse.

Good luck.
 

Okay, If I'm understanding you guys correctly, I just need to keep sshd running to watch for incoming connections (if I
decide to use ssh). I went root and ran "sshd" (the commands C_Legend gave me didn't work) and it exited without comment.
I ran ps -e and saw that sshd is now running. I'm going to try logining in maybe tomorrow, so I'll let you know the
results then.
 

Whee! It works! Thanks all!

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