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
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