topic Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX in Operating System - HP-UX

rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:30:14 GMT

We have HP-UX 11.11 running SAP on Oracle. We would like to run BRGUI from Windows XP to connect to Oracle database running on the system say tstapp.

We have installed Java 1.4.2 on Windows system.

tstapp: Added following entry in .rhosts file tstapp.

ip_number of client +

Now while running

rsh tstapp -l user1 ll (rsh is hanging)

While giving the command
rsh tstapp -l user1

in BRGUI we get "Logon Filed".

Please help. Thanks.

sks

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

harry d brown jr — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:17:34 GMT

Sanjay,

.rhosts is expecting a host name.

Also, try two plus signs: + +

Have you installed SP2 for XP?

any error messages in syslog?

live free or die
harry d brown jr

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Denver Osborn — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:32:03 GMT

From the WinXP box can you telnet to the hp-ux box and run 'who -muR' and compare that against the ip_address / hostname you have listed in the .rhosts file?

Hope this helps,
-denver

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

T G Manikandan — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:19:23 GMT

Harry has got this..

Try with

+ +

in your .rhosts file.

That should work.

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Elmar P. Kolkman — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:32:37 GMT

Also make sure that you don't have the firewall active on the network link being used by XP, since the remshd will open a second connection back to the XP box...

(checkout the remshd manual page on this)

You might checkout the syslog.log on the hp box for info on failing remsh connections too to get more info on why this is failing. If possible, you could also check if the user works from another HP-UX box (or from the box itself). Especially if you have the "+ +" line in the .rhosts, you should be able to do "remsh localhost -l user1 ll" on the box itself.

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Jan Sladky — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:58:06 GMT

Hi Sanjay,

you have two options

a) trusted hosts entries in $HOME/.rhosts,
hostname and user, eg:
smp3-1m root
smp3-1 root
pluto smsadmin
metis smsadmin
sce3 smsadmin
sce4 smsadmin

b)
or in
/etc/hosts.equiv only hostname
sun

rgds Jan

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:55:47 GMT

1. I have put the following (exaustive) entry in the .rhosts file: + +

2. Firewall is not active in XP. It has SP2 installed.

3. Following command is working from the local/remote host (HP-UX): $remsh localhost -l user1 ll

4. No error reported in syslog.

Still No luck.

sks

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:37:38 GMT

Any inputs?

sks

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:37:42 GMT

While investigating further following are the observations:

1. HP-UX us sending RST=1 in the last packet.

2. At Windows level rsh is just hanging.

Any clue will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

sks

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Ron Kinner — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:17:45 GMT

What options do you have after

shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd

in /etc/inetd.conf?

When XP tries to connect, do netstat -an on both machines. Do you see the connection on both? What port is the XP using as a source? Is the destination port 514? Is that what it says for shell in /etc/services? (or are we trying to do Kerberos in which case what port does kshell use.)

Ron

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:12:44 GMT

Thanks Ron for the reply.

We have the entries as below:

/etc/inetd.conf
shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd

/etc/services
shell 514/tcp cmd # remote command, no passwd used

When we execute following commnad

rexec host -l user command

We get the output after entering the passwd prompted by the above command.

However while using rsh; the cursor at Windows level just hangs.

Detailed investigation of packets sent by the host to Windows has RST=1 in the last packet. What does that mean?

Can someone try rsh from Windows to HP-UX and give feedback?

sks

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Christian Deutsch_1 — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:08:04 GMT

Dear Sanjay,

I tried using cygwin rsh from Windows XP:

rsh -l user hostname

rsh then prompted me for a password, which I entered and then I had my shell on the remote machine. I didn't get this working with .rhosts recently but I think I had it working in the past.

Kind regards, Christian

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Vince Laurent — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:40:15 GMT

There is a known bug with Win XP SP2 rsh.

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Christian Deutsch_1 — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:57:22 GMT

Dear Sanjay,

A month or two ago I set up a cygwin sshd on Win XP SP2. This way it is possible to communicate via ssh from any other system. This can also be set up such that you don't need to enter a password each time you connect. Maybe that's an option for you?

Kind regards, Christian

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Volker Borowski — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:17:27 GMT

Hi,

is the XP User-Name the same as on Windows ? Do not trust the wildcards in .rhosts ! They are security critial in any case. Go fo

client_ip username

AND watch it. The Username in Windows is not case sensitive (the password is !). So you can login either with "hugo" "Hugo", which will not make any difference to XP, but check XP-Environment %USERNAME% it reflects the exact typing upon login, and as far as I remember this is the style rsh sends of the clients Userid, so may be you have a garbled username ?

Do you have brgui-Version 7 or 8 (or is even 9 already out?) ?

Volker

Re: rsh not working from Windows XP to HP-UX

Volker Borowski — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:23:30 GMT

...and .rhosts for user "orasid" has
-rw-------
???
just came to my mind ?
Volker