Good day all.
I’ve just installed OpenSuse 10 on one of my PCs. Everything looks ok, however, although I can ping it successfully, I’m unable to ssh/telnet or ftp to the machine.
netstat -an shows that ports 22 and 23 are not listening and ps -ef |egrep ‘ssh|ftp’ show nothing.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Bjoern
It unlikely anyone here even has SuSE 10
It’s so old and went out of support forever ago…
Are you use it’s not SLED?
If I remember correctly (yes, I am that as least as old as SuSE 10), even in those days the ssh and ftp services did not run when they where not switched on. 
And I guess that was done in those times already using YaST > System > System services (Runlevel).
But like others here, I would advise you to download 12.2 and use that. Then asking things in these forums would be more fruitfull.
On 2012-12-08 05:26, JoeMoer wrote:
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> Good day all.
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> I’ve just installed OpenSuse 10 on one of my PCs.
openSUSE 10 does not exist.
You may have 10.1, 10.2, 10.3… all of them totally different distros.
Or you may have SUSE 10.
What do you have really?
cat /etc/SuSE-release
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I’m sorry, I don’t know why I said 10, it is in fact openSUSE 12.1
Regards,
Bjoern
So did you open the ports in suse firewall?
Have you configured ssh and set it in the runlevel to start at boot?
I checked in yast2, vsftpd in enabled, but sshd was not. I enabled sshd and rebooted. I checked the processes and sshd is running now, however ftp is still not working.
On 2012-12-08 16:56, JoeMoer wrote:
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> I’m sorry, I don’t know why I said 10, it is in fact openSUSE 12.1
Ok then.
ssh is installed by default, but disabled. There is an option for it in
the installation menu. Now you have to activate the service (yast system
services) and open the firewall for that port.
Telnet server is not installed by default, it is considered dangerous.
ftp server is also not installed by default. There is a yast module to
configure it, but you probably need to install the yast ftp module
first. Configuration of the firewall for this service is not trivial.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 2012-12-08 17:56, JoeMoer wrote:
> however ftp is still not working.
You have to configure it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Thanks for all helpfull hints guys. :shake: At least I can Putty to the machine and although ftp isn’t working, since sshd is running I can ftp using WinSCP.
Regards,
Bjoern
All my machines are Linux, so I only use ssh setup on the server and either then fish or sftp from the remote device file manager and sometimes ssh or ssh -X from the konsole to the server
I only have 1 config file and I’ve been using it for years, just carrying it on to new installs, with just one adjustment a couple of releases back
When ssh is running, you can use sftpp over ssh. Very secure.