On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 10:13, Randall Barlow wrote:
> I've got a host called lappy786, and it is a windows machine with the
> cygwin version of sshd. I'm getting the following errors:
>
> 2006-06-10 11:00:19 lappy786 is dhcp 10.20.34.117, user is
> 2006-06-10 11:00:19 full backup started for directory /home
> 2006-06-10 11:00:21 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> 2006-06-10 11:00:26 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
I don't think anyone has gotten Cygwin sshd/rsync to work
properly - at least with the distribution verisions.
> I think it may be because the default for the rsync in the config.pl
> file is to try to log in as user root. Well, my windows machine has no
> user named root, and I'd rather not add one if possible. How do I
> specify that when backing up lappy786, log in as user xyz, and when
> backing up host abc, log in as user def?
You may need to run rsync as daemon on the windows boxes with
the rsyncd xfer method. In any case you can have a per-pc
config.pl file that contains the different settings needed for
that hosts.
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Les Mikesell
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