Thank you everyone,

I'm not going to be able to try your advice out until tomorrow because I just got home and it's late. I'm sure it will work wonderfully. This will save me a lot of time.

By the way I customized the firewall on my box and the telnet is ONLY open to the internal workstations. You scan my Linux box from the Internet and you'll get nothing. If I remember correctly on nmap it showed up as some funky routers I'd never heard of, and the OS quess had like 15 different os's. All 65535 ports are in stealth mode and no packets are recieved from the scans. As far as traditional hacking is concerned it's very solid.

I do use the computer to learn about security. Well I started doing it recently anyways. I want to start out working with easy stuff like telnet then start messing with stuff like http, ftp, ssh etcetera.

When I ran SSH on the server I hadn't set some keys up I think it was??? Tunneling the tcp connections would be a great thing to do if I open the network up to the Internet. Thanks for the advice.

As far as the social engineering comments go..... I was trying to convince someone to help me because I honestly needed the help. I'll be straight forward and say that I'm interested in all types of network security related stuff (ethical and unethical). I must also note that I have character, value's, and respect for people's property and privacy. I am curious because I'm intrigued. I would like to work as a network administrator once out of college.

Well, I need to get to bed. I'm really impressed with the people here on Antionline I've met so far. Thanks a bunch everyone and I look forward to the next topic.