Simple networking issue

[Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>]

Dear all - I am a little embarrassed but I cannot seem to figure it out.
I would like to issue a rsh command over my local net from laptop to
server.

The command is this:
  rsh server cat .rhosts

On 'server' I have:
  /etc/hosts.allow: ALL: LOCAL
  /etc/hosts.deny:  ALL: PARANOID
  ~/.rhosts: 	    192.168.1.118 erik
(ip for 'laptop' and username the same on 'server' and 'laptop')

The output for the command is always (after about 10 sec):
  server.avondel.nl: Connection refused

I have looked at the hosts_access manpage but did not find my mistake.
Also, I am not sure if I need to restart a daemon after changing any of
the hosts files.

Any suggestions much appreciated!

NB running Potato on both systems.
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  Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>