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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Why does UUCP "HANDSHAKE FAILED" when calling a 3B2?
Message-ID: <16516@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 8 Mar 88 04:29:33 GMT
References: <8366@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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It means that the 3B2 does not have your login name in its USERFILE (if it is
an old machine) or Permissions (if it is running Basic Networking Utilities.)

The key is the reply to the initial handshake. It should be:

	ROK

Other things that you might see:

	RCB
		Callback Required
	RLCK
		Lockfile problem -- attempting two calls at the same time

	RYou Are unknown to me
		4.3BSD and HoneyDanBer only: means that your hostname is not
		in the remote's L.sys or Systems file.
	RLOGIN
		SVR2, HoneyDanBer, Ultrix: means that your login name is not
		in the remote's USERFILE or Permissions file.

[Hey Spaf, when are you going to add this to the list of "most frequently asked
questions on the Usenet" ? :-)]

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