XPost: comp.sys.sun.admin, alt.unix.wizards   
   From: jacker@online.no   
      
   "James Acker"  skrev i melding   
   news:%QK%a.14528$os2.206501@news2.e.nsc.no...   
   > "proteus"  skrev i melding   
   > news:bhminf$s89$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au...   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Just wondering if you have a multipathing network setup on your box, or   
   > the   
   > > box you are trying to reach?  Reason being had the same problem after   
   > adding   
   > > in a new NIC to do load balancing.  Forgot to adjust my rhost files on   
   the   
   > > destination server, and this produced the behaviour you are seeing,   
   > > sometimes it worked other times gave permission denied.   
   > >   
   > > Cheers Joe.   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > Thanks very much....our network between the two machines is actually   
   routed   
   > through our clients servers. So your suggestion might just be the answer.   
   I   
   > still don't understand theoreticlly why it would sometimes work...unless   
   it   
   > is routing differently at times, sometimes going direct (the two machines   
   > are on the same segments) and other times getting blocked by their   
   > machine...   
   >   
   > In any case, I can look in that direction on monday. This rcp problem   
   might   
   > have uncovered another problem...   
   >   
   > Thanks again!   
   >   
   > Jim   
   >   
   >   
      
   Thanks to some help from proteus@uq.net.au on comp.sys.sun.admin I solved   
   the problem today.   
      
   Tried a couple of things, "rsh remote_machine date" also failed often but   
   worked sometimes.   
   I did a "snoop" capturing the net data while running 4 times (1st went okay,   
   2nd and 3rd failed, 4th went okay) and saw that in the RCP section of the   
   packets the times it worked it was using "Source:" as   
   machine_name, and I would see also return packets from remote_machine, but   
   when it failed it was going to machine_name.extra, and there was no return   
   packets.   
      
   Turns out we have a "Backup net" dual net card and one of the other techs   
   here had put a hosts entry in the source machine but there was NO entry on   
   the remote machine that corresponded with the name.   
      
   So I added the host entry on the remote machine, and added its' name to the   
   /.rhosts file and all worked just fine.   
      
   Thanks Proto!   
      
   Jim   
      
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