rsync - Aug 2002 - Connection refused

I'm sure this has been asked a zillion times so I searched for hours before
posting this. How can there be so little documentation on this.

Point me to what to read.

rsh is good:

[g3p:~] smith% rsh -l a1012 sv1.domain.com
Password:
{a1012@sv1.domain.com:65}

rsync not good:

[g3p:~] smith% rsync -av a1012@sv1.domain.com:kkk.txt sync/
rsync: open connection using rsh -l a1012 sv1.domain.com rsync
    --server --sender -vlogDtpr . kkk.txt
sv1.domain.com: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
    /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-8.1/rsync/io.c(140)

Thanks.

Don't worry about the rsh thing I'm only going to have it on till I sync
up
one huge directory.

>rsh is good:
>
>[g3p:~] smith% rsh -l a1012 sv1.domain.com
>Password:
>{a1012@sv1.domain.com:65}
>
>rsync not good:
>...
actually, "rsh" is not good enough. it's asking you for a
password,
which means without user/pwd authentication it won't run.

for example, try this:
   smith% rsh -l a1012 sv1.domain.com date
do you get the date back? I didn't think so.

you need to either:
 - enable r-commands from your source host to sv1.domain.com,
   by use of /etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts (see the man pages)
 - use rsync modules, where you can specify permissions which don't
   rely on r-command trusting.

The simplest is the first approach; if you have a home-directory (for a1012)
on sv1.domain.com, simply create a file at the base of the home-dir
called ".rhosts" with a one-line entry: the name of the source
machine.
Before trying rsync, make sure you can do an 
   "rsh -l a1012 sv1.domain.com date"
successfully.

good luck!
   - Sholom Fried