-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:30:40AM -0800, jedalaurin wrote: > > > > Tomas Zerolo wrote: [...] > > As Larry said, this probably isn't Cygwin-specific. Rsync can be also
[...] > server_A: Red hat > server_B: Window 2003 (cygwin) > > i was on server_B running this command: > > > ssh -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key someu...@server_a:/var/www/ /var/www/ Turns out my crystal ball was wrong ;-) > all files on server_A to be transferred on server_B /var/www/ > I got this error: > Connection closed by server_A > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at > /home/lapo/packaging/rsync-3.0.4-1/src/rsync-3.0.4/io.c(632) > [receiver=3.0.4] > > I've already setup ssh on cygwin > http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~kscully/CygwinSSHD_W2K3.html. > > may I ask the alternative that you have the "other way 'round." for our > option. No, actually "this way round" seems easier. You are using Cygwin for the SSH client (you might want to use PuTTY if you aren't taking advantage of other Cygwin features). (1) What happens if you invoke the ssh command on the Windows box? (you should get a shell on the RedHat box). (2) Can you see activity on the redhat's box sshd or auth log file (found somewhere around /var/log -- places to look would be sshd.log, auth.log, daemon.log syslog)? HTH - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJbLAHBcgs9XrR2kYRAlARAJ0Ss1ovcflUFWrWkJE15gtiI+CfGgCeJk3p sKdA+WkDXwArOZJ47eMdJYA= =bG9S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/