My biased opinion is to forget you ever heard of r-commands and use scp.
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i have root access to both systems however, the passwords are different....can anyone shed some light on how to successfully rcp from one system to the other?
The 'r' commands are very sensitive to hostnames so you may need fully qualified hostnames in the .rhosts file. Again, man remshd, it describes in detail every step of the login process. You should also check the remshd entry in /etc/inetd.conf to see if any options such as -l are in effect.
just to note....if i rlogin from irnnmpdc to bhovo....i am required to enter a password.....however, if i rlogin from bhovo to irnnmpdc.....it logs right in without having to enter the password....
Note that .rhosts must be in the home directory of user. For example, is / the home directory of root on both boxes? The file must also be owned by user and have permissions 600. Man rhosts for details and more login process description.
