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From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can't rsh to Solaris box from FreeBSD box
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Date: 25 Nov 1996 20:33:10 GMT
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Craig Johnston (craig@gnofn.org) wrote:

: the man page for rsh on Solaris seems to suggest is necessary.  In
: short, the Solaris box is set up to accept rsh's from the other Solaris
: box and the FreeBSD box exactly the same, yet the Solaris box doesn't
: like the FreeBSD box.  

Are you using any kind of tcp wrappers?  Are .rhosts enabled (w/username)
on each appropriate machine?  Are the .rhosts permissions set correctly
(should be 444 on my machine)?

How are your host/NS files setup?  Does the Solaris box know the name of
your FreeBSD box?  Do you get an explicit permission denied message, or
does nothing happen?

Please add a couple more details.

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