In case anyone ever has this problem... This was purely my ignorance with dealing with Unix type commands.
When you run a RMI server, you have to create a policy file. You also have to do a few other things before you '
java' your server.jar. Consider the codebase param... It is usually on the command line with your other params and defined such as -"Djava.rmi.server.codebase=%pathtocodebase%server.jar" (without the quotes). In Linux, that has to be appended with the
word "file:" such as -Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:%pathtocodebase%server.jar.
Sheesh. Finally back live.