Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell

Name

rsh

Runs commands on remote machines running the rsh service.

rsh remotehost [-l username] [-n] command

remotehost: The remote machine running the rsh service.
-l username: The credentials used to run the command on the remote host.
-n: Redirection of standard input of rexec to NULL. (Try using this for commands that run interactively.)
command: The command to remotely execute (enclose in quotes if there are embedded spaces).

Perform a directory listing on the Unix machine BONGO as user mitcht by remotely executing the ls command:

                     rsh bongo -l mitcht "ls ~"
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Windows 2000 includes only the client-side rsh command, so this command is typically used to remotely execute processes on Unix machines.
Unlike the rexec command discussed earlier, rsh does not prompt for a password before executing the command remotely. rsh uses the same authentication mechanism used by rcp, namely the .rhosts file on the remote machine.