newbie needs help: remote login to linux box from internal LAN

Hello All -

I've got a Red Hat 7.x gateway with a couple of Windows XP/NT machines in my
internal LAN. I'd like to initiate a shell session on my Linux box from one
of my Windows machines. When I try to SSH or Telnet to the Linux box, the
connection is refused.

Any help is much appreciated.

Brian

"Brian Lappin" <brianlappin@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<bf2fvb$dsj$1@bob.news.rcn.net>...
> Hello All -
>
> I've got a Red Hat 7.x gateway with a couple of Windows XP/NT machines in my
> internal LAN. I'd like to initiate a shell session on my Linux box from one
> of my Windows machines. When I try to SSH or Telnet to the Linux box, the
> connection is refused.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Brian

firewall?

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 05:54:49 -0400, Captain Dondo wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:18:58 +0000, Brian Lappin wrote:
>
>> Hello All -
>>
>> I've got a Red Hat 7.x gateway with a couple of Windows XP/NT machines in my
>> internal LAN. I'd like to initiate a shell session on my Linux box from one
>> of my Windows machines. When I try to SSH or Telnet to the Linux box, the
>> connection is refused.
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>> Brian
>
> Make sure sshd is running on the RedHat box. You can do this 3 ways:
>
> run it from init (man inittab), inetd (or is it xinetd in RH 7.3?) -
> anyway man inetd or xinetd, or from the startup scripts in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d.
>
> First you have to make sure sshd is installed. rpm -qa | grep ssh should
> tell you if ssh is installed.
>
> [yan@poseidon yan]$ rpm -qa | grep ssh
> kdessh-3.0.3-3
> openssh-server-3.4p1-2
> openssh-clients-3.4p1-2
> openssh-askpass-3.4p1-2
> openssh-3.4p1-2
> openssh-askpass-gnome-3.4p1-2
> [yan@poseidon yan]$
>
> Then see if you have the startup scripts.
>
> [yan@poseidon yan]$ ls -l /etc/rc.d/init.d/ssh*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2647 Aug 14 2002 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd
> [yan@poseidon yan]$
>
> then run (as root) chkconfig sshd on
>
> and that should start sshd on the reboot. In the meantime, you can run it
> manually by running /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd as root.
>
> If you still get no connection, then you have to figure out what's
> blocking the connection - like a firewall.
>
> -Dondo

Also remember to update your sshd - there have been security updates since
7.3
Check out RedHat's errata for updates

I think my problem is that the SSH server is not intalled on my machine.

I get the following:
[root@dhcp-1765-1 init.d]# rpm -qa |grep ssh
openssh-3.1p1-3
kdessh-3.0.0-4
openssh-askpass-3.1p1-3
openssh-askpass-gnome-3.1p1-3
openssh-clients-3.1p1-3
Which brings me to my next issue: I am having trouble intalling the openssh
package.I tried using the graphical KPackage program without luck. I
downloaded newest package from RH, but it doesn't seem to want to intall.
Pls help!Thx.



"Stuart H" <post@to_group.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.07.16.13.44.27.657533@to_group.com.. .
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 05:54:49 -0400, Captain Dondo wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:18:58 +0000, Brian Lappin wrote:
> >
> >> Hello All -
> >>
> >> I've got a Red Hat 7.x gateway with a couple of Windows XP/NT machines
in my
> >> internal LAN. I'd like to initiate a shell session on my Linux box
from one
> >> of my Windows machines. When I try to SSH or Telnet to the Linux box,
the
> >> connection is refused.
> >>
> >> Any help is much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Brian
> >
> > Make sure sshd is running on the RedHat box. You can do this 3 ways:
> >
> > run it from init (man inittab), inetd (or is it xinetd in RH 7.3?) -
> > anyway man inetd or xinetd, or from the startup scripts in
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d.
> >
> > First you have to make sure sshd is installed. rpm -qa | grep ssh
should
> > tell you if ssh is installed.
> >
> > [yan@poseidon yan]$ rpm -qa | grep ssh
> > kdessh-3.0.3-3
> > openssh-server-3.4p1-2
> > openssh-clients-3.4p1-2
> > openssh-askpass-3.4p1-2
> > openssh-3.4p1-2
> > openssh-askpass-gnome-3.4p1-2
> > [yan@poseidon yan]$
> >
> > Then see if you have the startup scripts.
> >
> > [yan@poseidon yan]$ ls -l /etc/rc.d/init.d/ssh*
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2647 Aug 14 2002
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd
> > [yan@poseidon yan]$
> >
> > then run (as root) chkconfig sshd on
> >
> > and that should start sshd on the reboot. In the meantime, you can run
it
> > manually by running /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd as root.
> >
> > If you still get no connection, then you have to figure out what's
> > blocking the connection - like a firewall.
> >
> > -Dondo
>
> Also remember to update your sshd - there have been security updates since
> 7.3
> Check out RedHat's errata for updates