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Hy,
first of all - your new version is verry great! Thank you!

Our Windows-Cluster has some service-IP-adresses on which i will use rsyncd. Now when i install cwrsyncserver the installation create a user (svcwrsync) with all rights for this service, but we need a Domain-User that can do the job.
What rights, permissions, should this user become?
Have you got a script that can create this special useraccount?

Thanks in advance

Michael

Hi,
The v2 of the server won't install because it claims that there is an existing cygwin installation or some application that is dependent upon cygwin.

Where can I find a list of the files / registry entries that the installer is checking for ... so I can remove them?

Cheers,
Vaughan

HelloThank you very much for copssh
I installed it on win2k3 and it worked flawlessly, but on win2k (i've tried 2) all i got is authentication failed (event log says the same). i feel it is even not passing the authen. to windows as i got policies to disable account after 3 logins, but even after say 20 tries the account is not locked out.
I use the last copssh (1.3.2)
Thanks again
gaiaphil

i've been using 1.2.1 for a long time now. and last night i tried to upgrade it to the lastest version. it installed fine, but it refuses to start up as a service. i tried all the versions, none of them started up so i'm back to 1.2.1. i don't get why it wouldn't work. i'm on windows 2003 standard server.

Is there any ssh-askpass for use on windows? Specifically it should be easy to install for use with cwRsync.

Rsync has been running for some time without any problem. The server is Windows Server 2003 and the clients are also Windows OS. All of my clients are working except one. In troubleshooting, I worked on the problem-child but got no where. So, I went to a working client and tried to change the behavior of that client to get a better idea if the problem is with the problem-child or my server. Well, I can't change the behavior of the one that is working. Here is part of my rsyncd.conf.
****************** rsyncd.conf*****************
use chroot = false
strict modes = false
hosts allow = *
log file = rsyncd.log
pid file = rsyncd.pid

hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/24, 5.6.7.8
path = d:/customers/clienta
read only = no
list = no

hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/24, 1.2.3.4
path = d:/customers/clientbRemoteBackup
read only = no
list = no
****************** rsyncd.conf*****************

ClientB is the one that is the problem. 1.2.3.4 is a representation of a public ip address. From ClientB's computers I try "telnet rsyncserver.mydomain.com 873". But if I go to ClientA's computer and try "telnet rsyncserver.mydomain.com 873", I get through with the message " @RSYNCD: 28
@ERROR: protocol startup error"
So, as a test, I changed the ip address on the working client to see if I could make it fail and I couldn't.
Here's what I changed it to...notice I changed the last octet of the ip address in the hosts allow line. That should've caused the telnet to fail but it didn't. I even restarted the rsync service just in case. I know you don't have to do that but I wanted to make sure.

hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/24, 5.6.7.9
path = d:/customers/clienta
read only = no
list = no

I even removed the clienta module from the file and clienta could still connect. I thought maybe there was another rsyncd.conf file stuck somewhere that I didn't know about...there isn't.

So, it seems that the problem is with my server and not the clients but I just can't seem to get to the bottom of this.

thanks for your help,
Mike

Hi
I'm trying to use --remove-sent-files option and I can't make it to work. Any help.

Thanks

Is there a chance that you build a package with both rsync and sshd?We're using backuppc and it would be a really good combination for the windows-world. The rsyncd has everytime an open port, but when we use this combination we can open the port only for this backup-job. thanks in advance.

Michael

crRsync V1.3's installer does not install the daemion as NT Service on my Win2000 server box? Is it supposed to do this by simply running the installer, or is manual configuration required to install the service?

The windows filesystems, NTFS in particular, do not support filenames with the following characters:
\/:*?"|

Unfortuantely some unix programs DO use these characters. In my case, it is vpopmail which means the rsync fails with a rename error because of files like ".1109341722.21837.computername,S=2944:2,S.006340". If you try and create this file on windows it won't work because of the colon (:).

It seems like this problem could be solved by escaping the problem characters. of course, is the a cygwin problem or a cwrsync problem?