On Thursday 10 July 2003 16:06, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thunderstorms have conspired to wreck my HDD. I bought a new one and now > wish to bring my desktop fully current with my laptop. It is simply > unreasonably slow to do it via MandrakeUpdate because of my dialup speed > and phone usage needs so I would like to sync my desktop with my laptop. > My laptop goes to work with me and gets to enjoy the speed of an ethernet > connection, thus it is painless for me to keep it updated. > > Last night I tried for perhaps an hour to figure out draksync without > success. I don't get the passphrase thing, as I can simply ssh or sftp > between my two systems using just my password. I did some man page reading > and THOUGHT I had it licked, trying 'ssh-keygen' but it appears I did not. > I tried to create a passphrase, but when that didn't work out, I decided to > blow it off and do the keygen and forego the passphrase. This didn't work > either. Whenever I try to draksync from either my desktop or laptop, I get > asked for a passphrase but no matter what, entering the passphrase I tried > generating and trying to send nothing when I decided against a passphrase, > I get rejected for not having a passphrase. > > What are the steps to get a working passphrase that will actually work with > draksync? This is new to me as I have usually simply sftp'd between my > systems and downloaded a bunch of rpms from my laptop to my desktop that I > downloaded on a given day. > > Any help here would be appreciated. > > praedor > - -- > Not a single 9/11 terrorist came from Iraq, nor did a single one train in > Iraq. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/DXMQaKr9sJYeTxgRAlvhAJ98bvovbgrQbEZbYwrK62AZD1jG1QCdFDxC > Fm9un+6ybHicHy3jE8C6CKs= > =L8CN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
AFAIK it (draksync) works out of the box i.e. log in as the user that has ownership of the files you want to sync, same as you would ssh. You didn't forget to install/set-up the ssh server did you? Good luck, HarM
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