Cannot ftp or telnet to linux : help required

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Dunn [mailto:jdunn at sefas.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:48 AM
> To: 'Rick Stevens'; 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux'
> Subject: RE: Cannot ftp or telnet to linux : help required
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Linux is running as a guest VM under VMWare and I now think this is a
> VMWare
> issue.
> 
> I can telnet OK from other  VMs, but not from other machines on the
> network.
> 
> John

Can you ping your VMWare session?

I'm a VMWare user and haven't had this issue.  9 times out of 10 you
have an interface configuration problem.