cannot rsh or telnet from windows NT to Solaris 5.8 server

[bhogadir]

Unix Guru's,

We've a legacy application running on Solaris 5.8 with Brightstor Arcserver installed on a NT box to backup this unix box.
We want to add some pre/post exec scripts which are located on the Unix box to be called from backup server. Basically thats to keep the tablespaces in online mode when we backup the Oracle datafiles.

We noticed that we need to do
rsh <hostname> -l username <script> to execute those scripts.
But unfortunately rsh doesnt work and either telnet doesnt work.
But we can ping the box and telnet other Sun boxes.
We've added hosts.equiv entry and .rshots too.

Can someone tell us what else need to be done to allow rsh or telnet to work from NT to Solaris?

Thanks,
Raj

 

[Annihilannic]

Does your .rhosts entry have an IP address or host name? You also need an entry in /etc/hosts if it is a host name.

Annihilannic.

 

[spamly]

Is inetd running on the Sun server? Is telnet and rsh access defined in /etc/inetd.conf?

 

[itsp1965]

bhogadir do the commands work if your replace the hostname by the IP address instead?

 

[bhogadir]

Thanks for your replies.

Yes. .rhosts has the hostname entry and /etc/hosts has the entry too.

inetd is running on the Sun server.

telnet to prod. Sun server works fine from this windows box. And the entries in inetd.conf in Prod and test Sun boxes have identical entries.

The commands are not working with ipaddress too.

Now i'm suspecting firewall,if any, between test Sun box and windows nt box, blocking those ports.
But how can i check and ensure that...is there any checks i can do to confirm that?

Pls. advise.

 

[Annihilannic]

Ask your network admins I guess!

Annihilannic.