im trying to copy a file over our network from one machine to another: im trying to copy hello.c into my root directory on machine with an ip: 192.45.168.10 i did a rlogin to sysem 192.45.170.20 from 192.45.168.10 both machines have the same subnet: 255.255.0.0 example: #rlogin 192.453170.20 %rcp hello.c 192.45.168.10:/ permission denied what am i doing wrong? thanks

From what I understand .20 has the file and you want to copy it to .10, right??? rcp does not prompt for passwords; your current local user name must exist on hostname and allow remote command execu- tion by rsh. So from .20 can you rlogin into .10?? .20# rlogin -l

From what I understand .20 has the file and you want to copy it to .10, right??? rcp does not prompt for passwords; your current local user name must exist on hostname and allow remote command execu- tion by rsh. So from .20 can you rlogin into .10?? .20# rlogin -l

rcp requires that you give permission to do the copy. There are a couple of ways to do it, but in this case the best would be to just edit the root /.rhosts file (or create one) on the .10 system and add: 192.45.170.20 root I assume you are using root to do rcp.