>why am i not able to telnet from other machine on network.
>I tried to telnet from NT machine where I see the Linux Samba Server and
>can ping the Linux server IP.
>Previous version of RH7.0 did not have any problem now I have installed Suse7.3
>Rajesh

Telnet is very insecure because it sends everything "in the clear" allowing a packet sniffer to pick up your passwords. The prefferred method is SSH, for secure shell, which overcomes these limitations.

For this reason, telnet is disabled by default in the SuSE 7.3 distro, and many others. If you try to turn it on I think some of them give you dire warnings about security.

To turn on SSH instead, you need to be running the SSHD daemon. For quickie work you can just su to root and type in sshd, the program automatically detaches itself and runs as a daemon. You can also add a line to etc/inet.d/inetd.conf to load it under inetd. It is probably in the setup tools also.