I have heard of something called unison that is available for win and lin, based on rsync. might be worth exploring ( i think it will synchronise both ways).
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 00:01:53 +1200 Andrew Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use cwrsync( http://www.itefix.no/cwrsync/ ) to backup > data on a couple of windows 2000 machines to a linux fileserver. > > Unfortunately, it seems to want to fire up ssh, which isn't > installed. > > I'm not quite sure why it wants to do this, because as far as I can > tell the rsync daemon on the linux machine ought to not need a ssh > connection. I've tried specifying the destination as > rsync://192.168.0.3/backup/Olivia and as 192.168.0.3::backup/Olivia > which theoretically ought to use the rsync protocol rather than > ssh. Rsync is specified in inetd.conf. It is listening, because if I > just query the server from the windows machines it gives me a list of > 'modules'. > > I tried specifying puTTY, which is installed, as the shell, but that > didn't work. I tried installing CopSSH ( http://www.itefix.no/copssh/ > ) which seems to be done by the same person as cwrsync, but windows > complains about conflicting versions of cygwin.dll > > I've looked through the docs, and I can't find anything about telling > the rsync service to allow unencrypted connections. > > Rsyncing also works fine from my laptop, but I guess it's probably > fireing up ssh. > > If the worst comes to the worst, I suppose I can always install > Cygwin, but weighing in at 30Mb seems a bit of an overkill. > > Any suggestions? > > > > -- > -- > |Andrew Tarr | http://arc.stuff.gen.nz > |GPG Public Key:- http://arc.stuff.gen.nz/andrew.gpg > |_____ > "There is no excellent beauty that hath not > some strangeness in the proportions" > --Francis Bacon > |~~~~~ > | -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
