The other thing too is that if you are trying it as root, won't happen. A lot of distros shut off remote logging in as root if telnet is enabled still. Shawn Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:01:55PM -0800, Jimmy Jam wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I just completed a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2, I tried to telnet from one of my other window machine to the Linux server but got a "Connection Refused" message. Does anyone know why I got this message? > > > For a very good reason: telnet is <trumpets="loud">INSECURE</>. > > You should not use telnet. > > Get ssh for windows: search the fine web for putty or terraterm/ssh. > > florin > > -- > > "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." > > 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature