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Telnet to a Linux virtual machine

VMware 5.5.3, Windows XP Pro, Fedora Core 6

I have set up a Fedora Core 6 vmware guest on a Windows host using vmware 5.5.3.

What I want to be able to do is start the linux guest and then be able to telnet to that linux guest from my windows machine. I am a linux/vmware newbie and don't know all the things to do for networking. I would like the vmware linux guest to have a static ip that does not change. I also need to be able to access a website that is on this guest machine.

I didn't install any of the firewall or ESLinux stuff for tighet security. I did try to telnet to localhost on the linux machine, and that connection was rejected.

Can anyone give me some pointers or some "good" steps on how to do this. If i have the wrong area, can someone point me to the correct area to post this to.

ogbuagu1

What do these commands show you on Linux?

ifconfig -a

netstat -nr

Also do you have a telnet daemon service active on Linux?

Rgds
Gus

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sbhegel

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Gus,

Here is the results of those 2 commands:

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig -a | more
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:3A:DF:46
inet addr:192.168.0.126 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe3a:df46/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:566432 (553.1 KiB) TX bytes:6931 (6.7 KiB)
Interrupt:185 Base address:0x1400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1295 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1295 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3363956 (3.2 MiB) TX bytes:3363956 (3.2 MiB)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@localhost ~]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Thanks,