Port 21 on Fedora Core 3

[comanche]

Is there a way to allow Port 21 on Fedora Core 3?

[superbnerd]

Do you mean telnet? If you want to be able to login to your system remotely you should use ssh (http://www.openssh.com/). You should already have it installed.
1. Go to Main Menu > System Setting > Server Settings > Services and enable sshd.
2. Then you need to open port 22 on your firewall. I suggest you install Firestarter (http://www.fs-security.com/).
2.a. First you must make sure you have your system setup to use yum to install software (http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware) yum install firestarter

Here is a tutorial on ssh (http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/richard_flude/ssh/).

[comanche]

im just tryin to connect to my fedora core 3 linux operating system from a windows xp box with a ftp program on port 21, and its saying its unable to connect but i have the right ip address and login and pass, btw, this is on the same network

[superbnerd]

In anycase, you should install Firestarter. Its a very easy to use and powerful firewal, which will allow you to open the desired port. You could, however, just use the Security Level program under Main Menu > System Settings.

[comanche]

how do i allow a port on firestarter?

edit: i found out how to allow ports in the policy,,... but now it wont let me on, still...i even started up the firestarter with no policys, and then when i tried to connect, i saved the addresses so that they could connect. and it still doesnt connect.. what am i doin wrong?

[comanche]

i just tried out ssh and it worked perfectly, i'm wonderin why ftp wont work..

[pparks1]

comanche,

The ssh program runs on port 22 which is likely open on your firewall (iptables). You need to open up the FTP ports or the ftp software won't work.

You can change this from the gui by running system-config-securitylevel and checked the box next to FTP in Trusted services.

[taylor65]

to enable ftp, go to System Settings -> Security Level and click on FTP.

[taylor65]

oh, and also, start the ftp daemon System Settings -> Server Settings -> Services and click on vsftpd.