Vista rsh.exe

Archived Forums. Application Compatibility for Windows Desktop Development. Sign in to vote. Is rsh. Thanks, Ollie. Monday, April 2, AM. Monday, April 2, PM. On remote hosts running MKS Toolkit rshd , you cannot depend on the locuser 's HOME environment variable correctly identifying that user's home directory. In such a case, rshd uses a reasonable default as the home directory. For instructions on setting and viewing environment variables, see your Operating System's online help.

You are prompted for locuser 's password and the home directory for locuser is then displayed. This is the directory where the. If you are receiving a " could not retrieve password " error when attempting to connect to a remote host running the MKS Toolkit rshd service, it most likely means that the rsetup command has not been used to create an entry in the LSA database for locuser.

If you are receiving connection to server failed error, it usually implies that either there is no rshd service or daemon running on the remote host or that there were more concurrent rsh requests than the remote host could handle.

Most versions of rshd have a limit to the length of user name they can handle. On some UNIX systems, this limit is as low as 14 characters. As a result, you may receive an error message stating that either remuser or locuser is too long. When the " locuser is too long " error is received, it means that not only is the locuser name longer than the server's limit, but, by extension, it is an invalid user name on that server.

This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. All UNIX systems. Windows Server Windows 8. Windows Server R2. Windows Monday, April 2, PM. I was unable to find any additional information except that in Longhorn server rsh. It won't be included in the default server install. The sticky post at the top of the forum says "application compatibility and Logo certification issues".

Our applications require an rsh client and it does not appear to exist on Vista Business. If there is a more appropriate forum then please let me know. I am only concered about business users so it isn't that important, but are you sure rsh is not available in XP Home?

Thanks for the info.