I'm new to Red Hat but.. Installed rsh package. When I execute "rcp user@139.64.100.1:/usr2/p/FILE FILE" I'm told "139.64.100.1: Unknown host", but scp works just fine. Do I need an '.rhosts' file on the local and/or remote host?
Thanks in advance.
-Brad
remote host is an HP-UX 11.i box

Tried rcp from Red Hat box to Red Hat box and get a "Connection refused" error. Why would the connection be refused? I'm rcp'ing to a HA Cluster that has a single 'floating' IP address. I don't know if this makes any difference, but thought I'd mention it.
Thanks again!

Hi, Brad,

"Connection refused" usually means you tried to connect to a hostort combination where nothing is actually listening to the specified port. Whenever you see "connection refused," the first thing to research is whether or not what you're trying to do has a "server side" component (frequently called a "daemon"), and is that component actually running?

I don't know a great deal about rsh and rcp, but a quick Google search on "rshd daemon" reveals that a daemon exists. You probably need to make sure the daemon is installed and running on your server and try to make a connection, again.

Good luck!
dafydd

Unfortunately, there is not rshd daemon on Red Hat6. I'm wondering if there needs to be an entry in /etc/services.

That sort of thing on RHEL would be deprecated, but there prob is a pkg and it would prob install it as a xinetd service.
I strongly recommend ssh/scp/sftp http://www.informit.com/articles/art...p=169465&rll=1