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From: gandrews@netcom.COM (Greg Andrews)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: no dance tonight...
Summary: RLOGIN means the login name is not recognized
Keywords: RLOGIN, uucp, Waffle
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.014445.24280@netcom.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 91 01:44:45 GMT
References: <320@dogear.UUCP>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest}
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In article <320@dogear.UUCP> root@dogear.UUCP (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
>
>The systems, pc and unix host, connect. uucp logs into the host, passing
>the login: and password: prompts easily. The systems identify to each
>other, the host giving the Shere= and my pc giving the Rxxxxxx response.
>then:
>
>rmsg sync  10
>Cannot Tango - reason: RLOGIN
>
>and that about does it. Does _anyone_ have any suggestions? 
>

According to the references I have, "RLOGIN" is an error message
returned by the answering system.  It means that the login name you
used (not your computer's nodename or machine name, but the name you
typed at the login: prompt) is not recognized by the host as valid 
for uucp.

This usually means the login name is missing from the host's
USERFILE or Permissions file.  Perhaps they have a different
nodename listed for your login?  Some systems truncate the node
name to 7 or 8 characters.  Maybe this is causing a mismatch between
the nodename you send and the nodename they are expecting?  Also
watch out for unusual characters in the nodename - I've seen reports
of systems that can't pass characters like '-' in the "Shere=xxxx"
exchange...

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