I thought I knew how to setup rsh but apparently I don't. I have three solaris servers behind a pix. I want to beable to run a rcp command to copy some files from onew server to another server using the inside ip address. I created a rhosts file on the root directory of the remote server and a rhosts file in the user directory as wee and added the sending server name and username on a line seperated by a space. Yet when I issue that command I get a connection refused error from the remote server. I guess what I need is a step by step instruction list detailing how to setup the rhosts file to make this work. Thanks for your help

make certain your .rhosts has the correct format. also, check out the rsh man pages for more detail, try /etc/hosts.equiv.

for both .rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv try to use the machines' names as appears in /etc/hosts instead of the ip. hope this will help you

What do you mean by correct format? I just craeted a regular file, named it rhosts and put in the domain name of the other server followed by the username. Also in the hosts.equiv I just put in the domain name (the same name in the /etc/hosts file for that server.) Is this the correct way?

you do know it is 'dot' rhosts, .rhosts, right? I ask because in both of your posts you dont have the . in front of rhosts.