On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Jim McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found that rsyncd usually needs to be run with administrator rights. > Trying to get it to run as a regular user or a system account has always > failed for me. With your connection refused message, I suspect that rsyncd > is not running at all. try either using nmap or telnetting to the windows > box at port 873. If those fail or don't show activity at port 873, rsyncd > isn't running on the windows box, so there is nothing for the backuppc > machine to connect to. > > Most likely, you'll have much better backups with rsyncd instead of samba, > so I'd encourage you to get that working.
It is true. I have problem with Samba Character setting now, trying to figure out. When I try to run rsyncd using administrator account (not localsystem), it could not be started. When I use LocalSystem, it actually did not but without any notice. Is there any instruction to troubleshoot rsyncd? Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
