[NCLUG] help, network connections

[rosing at peakfive.com]

Hi, 

my tape backup died and I need to move a lot of files from one
machine to another. I have ethernet cards in both machines, a crossed
cable between them, and I can ping one machine from the other. I just
can't telnet, or ftp, or anything else. I've changed hosts.deny to be
empty and hosts.allow to be ALL:ALL. Is there anything else I should
change? 

Thanks,

Matt