>RH7.1 per default comes installed with a firewall in place to block
>external access to lots of services. security don't ya know...
>>either use the relevant RedHat config tool (gnome-lokit??) to allow
>accesss to ports 53 tcp and udp (DNS) and 20, 21 tcp (ftp-data
>and ftp). or disable the firewalling totally:
>>for H in ipchains iptables ; do /etc/rc.d/init.d/${H} stop ; chkconfig
>${H} off ; done
Yep lads that did the trick. Ye were all right it was the firewall.
Paul thanks that "for" statement, it did the absolute business
.Being a newbie-ish person to linux whats the best way of going
about running this at startup:
>>for H in ipchains iptables ; do /etc/rc.d/init.d/${H} stop ; chkconfig
>${H} off ; done
>
Thanks for your help
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