using RH 7.1
when on the pc, i can use any services (telnet to myself, ssh, httpd) but when i try to connect from the outside (my pc at work) i can't. hosts.allow/deny don't have anything.
what can be blocking ouside connections? ipchains seems to be allowing all tcp connections from anywhere to everywhere...

how are you trying to login and what is the error message you recieve when trying to login? remember, you can't login as root only as another user.

can't even get to the login prompt. on telnet the connection just times out. on httpd (if i try to connect to my ip through a browser) it doesn't connect either, timeout. but the same things i can do from this machine with no problem.
i'm thinking maybe it's a firewall problem. but this is what ipchains gives me:
[root@24-168-135-170 val]# /sbin/ipchains -L
Chain input (policy ACCEPT):
target prot opt source destination ports
ACCEPT udp ------ nycdns4fa.rdc-nyc.rr.com anywhere domain -> any
ACCEPT udp ------ nycdns3fa.rdc-nyc.rr.com anywhere domain -> any
ACCEPT udp ------ anywhere anywhere bootps:bootpc -> bootps:bootpc
ACCEPT udp ------ anywhere anywhere bootps:bootpc -> bootps:bootpc
ACCEPT all ------ anywhere anywhere n/a
REJECT tcp -y---- anywhere anywhere any -> 0:1023
REJECT tcp -y---- anywhere anywhere any -> nfs
REJECT udp ------ anywhere anywhere any -> 0:1023
REJECT udp ------ anywhere anywhere any -> nfs
REJECT tcp -y---- anywhere anywhere any -> x11:6009
REJECT tcp -y---- anywhere anywhere any -> xfs
Chain forward (policy ACCEPT):
Chain output (policy ACCEPT):

P.S. yup, i know the simple problems (root login). but as i've said, i can't even get to the login prompt.

How is your PC at work connected? As the risk of instulting you intelligence can you ping your home machine? Are you sure that your work's network doesn't only have http access via a proxy so your ipchains rule of allowing connections from nycdns4fa.rdc-nyc.rr.com (I'm assuming this is your work address) doesn't match the proxy's IP, and all other IP don't get out of your work's network.

Just a thought.

Jamie...

i solved the problem a while ago. had to configure ipchains on the home pc. it was blocking 0:1023 tcp connections. =)