newbie gdbserver question

[Sal Paradise]

I'm sure this is an old old problem, but I'm new at this and can't
find the answer in any FAQ, so I'm posting here.  Please be gentle! 
;-)

I'm running gdbserver on a redhat server.  From a redhat client, I
invoke gdb and do the following:


(gdb) target remote linuxtarget:1234 
linuxtarget:1234: Success.
(gdb) Quit
(gdb) 

It says "success", but this is bogus.  It never touches the gdbserver.
 In fact, "linuxtarget" doesn't even exist!  Please tell me you've
seen this before.

Thanks,
Sal