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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.aero.org!news2.aero.org!news2 From: Alex Kiefer <kiefer@aero.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: can't rsh to Solaris box from FreeBSD box Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:53:08 -0500 Organization: The Aerospace Corporation Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <329B2E84.486@aero.org> References: <57cqhu$o4a@junkie.gnofn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lee.aero.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:90524 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31587 Craig Johnston wrote: > > I can't seem to get Solaris to accept rsh's from FreeBSD. The Solaris > machine will accept rsh's from the other Solaris machine, and I have > a line in hosts.equiv for the FreeBSD box and it is in /etc/hosts as > 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. > > Any clues? Usually when I have trouble with rsh and everything seems fine, it is a name resolution problem. Try doing a ping hostname and see if it resolves it correctly. Sometimes it is a problem with resolving just the hostname when the hostname+domainname works fine. Are you using DNS, NIS or a host file? All of this resolving is done on the box that is accepting the rsh command. Alex Kiefer