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From: jeb@pnet51.cts.com (James Borchart)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: TCP/IP and NFS on ISC
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Date: 30 Aug 89 03:05:19 GMT
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  I am having some trouble getting help from ISC on these problems.  Tech
Support does not seem to have an answer.  To their credit they call me every
week and tell me they don't have an answer.
 
        1: /usr/ucb/rsh (not to be confused with the beloved restricted
           shell) will give me a shell on the local or a remote host
           but if I put a command at the end of the line I get 
           "Permission Denied" every time.  Regardless of command.

        2: rexec asks for a password for the specified or default user
           and then fails every single time.  This is regardless of whether
           the user requires a password or not.  The message is "Login 
           Incorrect\nrexec: could not execute remote command."

        3: SUN's PC-NFS, running on a PC connected by ethernet to the
           ISC server, gets "authentication failure" no matter what is typed
           for the username and password, or if the user needs a password.
 
  The existence or contents of an .rhosts file does not seem to be of
any consequence.  ISC has had NO suggestions for things to try or things
I might be doing wrong.  I have 386/ix 2.0.2, TCP/IP 1.1.2 and NFS 2.0,
all from Interactive.
 
   I am aware that PC-NFS does not necessarily require an username, but it
is very inconvenient nonetheless.  Also, does anyone know how to modify
the printer timeout time for PC-NFS, 5 minutes is a little extreme.


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