Problem:
Trying to set-up Unix publish by populating the Unix .rhosts file in the home directory with the tcp/ip address of the PC. The following error is displayed when trying to verify the server settings:
The server refused to execute the Server Control Program.
Please check your server configuration.
rshd: 0826-813 Permission is denied.
Resolution:
The Net Express documentation contains the following warning in the Unix Option Guide (Appendix A: Installing Samba and SCP):
Warning: The .rhosts file must be owned by the user ID that owns the directory and must not be writable by either group or world ( that is, it must have rw-r--r-- permissions). Also, it cannot be a symbolic link.
In this case the problem was due to permissions of the .rhosts file being rw-rw-r--.
Correct permissions can be set using the following command in the home directory:
chmod 644 .rhosts
