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Help with NetInfo Manager/Enabling services

Hello everyone!

I'm brand new to the list and I know I should be lurking for awhile to get
into "the flow" but I desperately need some guidance. Several services are
disabled by default in OS X (probably rightly so), but I need to do some
testing on a Firewall application so I need a test machine that I can enable
previously disabled and less common services. NetInfo seems to be the
biggest deviation from FreeBSD that I have found, and I am having a helluva
time finding any information on it's modification on the web or on Apple's
site.

/etc/services is not used accept in single-user mode, so I tried enabling
(using the Terminal application) the port-specific services in
etc/inetd.conf, but I still wasn't able to make a satisfactory change. For
example, I enabled telnet in etc/inetd.conf by deleting the comment
character "#" in the vi editor and saved the changes and rebooted. When
trying to access this computer from my companion iMac running OS 9.1 and
NiftyTelnet, my connection is refused and yet, the access attempt was
recorded and allowed according to the access history log from Norton
Personal Firewall (whew!)

Also, I am able to successfully connect using the ssh protocol as expected
(since that is the default protocol) using MacSSH for PPC

So it is apparent that the test machine is hearing my attempt at access, but
the permission is still denied... somewhere! Any ideas?

Can anyone direct me to a "How To" .pdf somewhere that might explain the
configuration of NetInfo Manager? Though I also just heard a rumor that
Apple will be 86ing NetInfo Manager in OS X v10.1 - anyone hear anything
like that, and if so would we then likely revert to the more UNIX-like
etc/services arrangement?

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on these mysteries! Muito
obrigado! Gratzie! Danke!

-- Lance J. Holt --
email@hidden
http://www.mactire.org



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