I can not telnet my linux suse 7.1 from outside, but ican from inside. Please help me

Thanks

Rionando

first:

you might have personal firewall activated...

this can cause that you cannot telnet from outside.

cya

where can i turn the personal firewall off. i try to uninstall the firewall but it still can not telnet.

eayest way to shut personal firewall of, is somewhere in the yast configuration tool.

but i dont know anything of yast, so you have to look for yourself.

another way is, to remove the reference to the firewall script in the /etc/init.d directory.

it should be called something like firewall or firewall.sh and so on...

remove this file (deleto or move to another location) and then remove the symlinks in the /etc/rc.[something] directories.

i dont know how this works with suse, it meght be called rc.d or rc[runlevel from 0 to 6].d

give it a try.

cya

dont use telnet, use ssh, it's more secure. you probably need to enable telnet, or ssh from /etc/inetd.conf see if telnet has a # before it, if so, remove the # before the and kill -HUP inetd you might have to ps aux|grep inetd to find the pid for it, and use the pid, instead of kill -HUP inetd