strange transfer problem

We have a Linux network setup here and we just added a laptop running RH7.1. The problem is this:
We can ping out and to the laptop just fine and we can rlogin from the laptop. But we cannot pull files from the other system to the laptop, of put files to the other systems from the laptop. We get a "connection refused" error.

We are logged in a root su and all the permissions on the files are 777. Any ideas? Thanks.

How are you trying to transfer the files? FTP? rsync?

Btw, I recommend ssh over rlogin. And as a bonus you get sftp (secure FTP) and scp (secure cp) for free

We are trying to transfer via rcp...

Okay, I'm not entirely familiar with rcp, scp is a drop-in replacement for rcp, only it encrypts/compresses the data. So, in general, it's just better (again, ssh is better than rlogin as well, so I'm really pushing the switch here). But, it sounds to me that rlogin and rcp connections are handled either by different daemons or are handled differently by the same daemon. So, on the target machine, either: a) switch to ssh/scp , or b) check the configs for the rlogin/rcp daemons

Do a netstat -al to see the active ports.
Check in /etc/services to make sure your setup is avaliable for telnet.
Look in your inetd.conf to make sure there is tcp stream connection string.
Try killing and restarting inetd.
Joe

DON´T ever touch /etc/services unless you really know why!
And rsh is NOT telnet!. they are two independent services.

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use "killall -HUP inetd" to make inetd reload the configuration file.