Questions about enabling ssh and vnc on redhat 5

[ReMad]

hello

I have some qs about enabling vnc and ssh on linux redhat 5

Have vnc installed and running

Correct vlan and network ip , dns , gw , mask

firewall turned off but still unable to ping , ssh and connect to vnc

What else to check and what to configure ? Please advise

Thanks

[ReMad]

I still cant

any idea :(

[n_K]

Redhat 5? I'm assuming you mean red hat enterprise and not the old red hat system as there was no red hat 5, it was 6.2.

If you can't ping it then you've either disabled ping commands in the kernel (/etc/sysctl.conf) or you've messed up with networking, check everything over because if you can't ping it when you should be able to, then VNC/SSH will never work because you've got no connectivity to it.

[+BudMan MVC]

^ agreed if you have firewall off on the linux box and you can not ping it - points to networking issue in general. Once you can ping the box, then if vnc and or ssh doesn't work we can troubleshoot that - but you have to be able to verify connectivity first.

Are the devices on the same segment, you mention vlan - so what is routing traffic between the vlans? More than likely you have issue there or firewall between your vlans blocking the traffic you want.

As to RH 5, not sure what n_k is talking about - there was a RH 5, quite some time ago - I use to run it back in the Day ;)

http://en.wikipedia....Version_history

5.0 (Hurricane), December 1, 1997 (Linux 2.0.32-2)

The RH enterprise line did not come about until later, RHEL 5 was released in 2007

http://en.wikipedia....nterprise_Linux

So yeah it would be helpful to be specific what your running. But if its 5 be it old RH or even RHEL -- its OLD ;) Why are you running such an old version? Yes RHEL 5 is still under support. But sounds like this is a newer instal if your just now trying to get ssh and vnc working, so why pick such an old version?

edit: So you can still get it here

http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/5.0/en/os/i386/

I got the boot.img booted on my esxi box, so I might try and get it running just for fun ;)

[ReMad]

  On 28/09/2012 at 15:00, BudMan said:

^ agreed if you have firewall off on the linux box and you can not ping it - points to networking issue in general. Once you can ping the box, then if vnc and or ssh doesn't work we can troubleshoot that - but you have to be able to verify connectivity first.

Are the devices on the same segment, you mention vlan - so what is routing traffic between the vlans? More than likely you have issue there or firewall between your vlans blocking the traffic you want.

As to RH 5, not sure what n_k is talking about - there was a RH 5, quite some time ago - I use to run it back in the Day ;)

http://en.wikipedia....Version_history

5.0 (Hurricane), December 1, 1997 (Linux 2.0.32-2)

The RH enterprise line did not come about until later, RHEL 5 was released in 2007

http://en.wikipedia....nterprise_Linux

So yeah it would be helpful to be specific what your running. But if its 5 be it old RH or even RHEL -- its OLD ;) Why are you running such an old version? Yes RHEL 5 is still under support. But sounds like this is a newer instal if your just now trying to get ssh and vnc working, so why pick such an old version?

edit: So you can still get it here

http://archive.downl...5.0/en/os/i386/

I got the boot.img booted on my esxi box, so I might try and get it running just for fun ;)

Hello Mr BudMan :)

iptables is disabled

all services are enabled

nothing should be blocking the connectivity between ports

i was able to ping first before i turned off the enforced security ( as i remember )

will check and update the thread

Thanks ;)

[ReMad]

Solved the Network issue

can ping and ssh but not VNC

Checking

any hints ?

[+BudMan MVC]

Well what was the networking issue? Was it a firewall rule? What?

If you can ping and ssh, then you have something blocking the access - be it firewall on client, host or between? Or you don't have it listening on the host? Or your doing it wrong ;) Ie wrong port, etc.