On Jun 29, 2012 9:51 AM, "Joshua O'Leary" <<a href="mailto:joshua.oleary@btinternet.com">joshua.oleary@btinternet.com</a>> wrote: > > On 28/06/12 20:40, MR ZenWiz wrote: >> >> Update: >> >> No, I can't telnet to it from itself. >> >> I tried installing ufw and gufw, but even with the "default" configuration I got from the Debian to-do list for Precise, it doesn't work. >> >> In fact, that configuration also blocks my samba shares (!). >> >> So I have no firewall running. >> >> I'm still kind of a novice with network stuff, even after all my years with Unix & Linux. (sigh) >> >> >> > When you ssh/telnet into a host, are you doing it by hostname or ip? If you are just doing it by hostname, try doing it by ip - some routers can be very glitchy (e.g. homehub 3) with assigning ip addresses to hostnames. > Always by IP addr - my machine doesn't map to a name (because I run ubuntu instead of Windows...).