Benny Pedersen wrote to Dane Beko:

BP>  DB> I'm running Linux Mint 9 in a VirtualBox machine and have been 
BP> setting
BP>  DB> up MBSE as well.  I run PcBoard in another VirtualBox machine and 
BP>  DB> would like to convert to MBSE at some point.  I can't, however, 
BP> figure
BP>  DB> out how to open a telnet port to the BBS.
BP> 
BP>  DB> If I type "telnet localhost", I'm told that there
are no authorized 
BP>  DB> ports, etc. I have my PcBoard all setup for telnet purposes so I'm 
BP>  DB> familiar with the process; just not in Linux.  Thanks.
BP> 
BP> 
BP> localhost in virtualbox ?
BP> 
BP> or on the host itself ?
BP> 
BP> each virtualbox have there own lan ip :)
BP> 
BP> but again each virtualbox have also localhost ip in there own container :)
BP> 
BP> what did you do ?

Then, too, you might want to check and make sure that the telnetd service is
actually installed and set up to answer telnet connections correctly.  This is
a common mistake I see often when working with clients that needs to set up a
telnet server for whatever reason under Linux.
   

    Greetings, Robert Wolfe

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