I tried to rsh or rcp to another system and it says “connection refused”. What does that mean?
The “connection refused” error is a TCP/IP error that means that nothing is “listening” on the other end of the connection. For rsh and rcp, it means that no remote shell daemon (rshd) is running on the system you have specified. If the system is a Unix system, it could mean that the rshd has been disabled in the /etc/inetd.conf file. Sometimes this is done for security reasons by a system administrator. If the system is a Windows system, be aware that no version of Windows includes a remote shell daemon. You would need to run a third-party rshd on that system, such as our Winsock RSHD/95 or RSHD/NT. If you have installed Winsock RSHD/95 or Winsock RSHD/NT, perhaps it is not started or there is some TCP/IP configuration issue that is not allowing it to start. Or you could be specifying an incorrect hostname or IP address in your command. Ping the hostname you are using and record the IP address. Then go to the Windows system and run this command at a command prompt: (Windows NT/2000/XP
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