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Most of my servers are running Linux. I use rsync to back up my live servers to my backup drives, and it works quite nicely. Now I have to start backing up two Windows servers (Windows 2003 Server).
I installed rsycn from this site (itefix.no), version 2.6.5. I editted my rsyncd.conf to look like:
use chroot = false
strict mode = false
hosts allow = *

path = /cygdrive/c
read only = true
transfer logging = yes

I then started the openssh and rsync services manually. Now from the Linux box I am attempting to:

rsync -vru --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh" SvcwRsync@www3:/c /media/ieee1394disk1/www3/c

I get prompted for a password, and enter the pw for that user. I get "Permission denied, please try again.". I try again, using a user name defined in the Windows user base, with a known good password. Same error.

I assume I'm either formatting my request to the Windows server incorrectly or have messed up the config file on the Windows box. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should be looking at first?

Hello,
Just setup the copssh on a windows 2003 server. Everything went wel during the install. After activating a user, I seem to login, because I see the last login date. Then at the same time I'm disconnected. Everytime, I see a quick error message like: setgid: Invalid argument

I've installed the application 3 times now and don't know what I actually doing wrong. Can someone help me please?

D.

Ok, silly question. I'm now trying to get CWRSYNC to work through the built in SSH instead of using VANDYKE. I am struggling. First off right after I install CWRYSNCSERVER, I try launching bash from the shortcut and it complains about cygncurses-8.dll not being found. Do I need to install COPSSH? Also, when generating public keys with NULL, how to you test an SSH connection manually? Just hit enter?
Thanks.

Is there a way to change the ssh port? The reason that I ask is that my ftp server has a built in ssh server, that only works with the ftp server, and it is listening on port 22.
I want to use cwRsync and ssh and thought that maybe I could install a 2nd ssh server which listens to a different port.

I'm really new to this whole SSH server thing and have spent days trying to decypher various ways of implementing SFTP from CYGWIN to openSSH and on. My next stop is COPSSH which i have been able to install. I am comfused as to where to go from there. The server ison a domain and I have a single client computer on that domain at home right now. I would like to access the FTP fold via SFTP from my job using Dreamweaver MX 2004 which supports SFTP. Where do I start?

FYI, users of cwRsync might be interested in this project:
rsyncrypto
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsyncrypto/

which provides an rsync compatible encryption and compression algorithm. (At least in theory. I haven't got it working yet.)

I ran across it while looking for a Win32 binary of gzip that had been patched to include an rsync compatible algorithm.

After upgrading my rsync server installation to 2.0.2 I ran a backup script and got:

receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/Administrator/Application Data/." (in Profiles) failed: No such file or directory (2)
done
client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option?
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(812)

Nothing else had changed. The config file was copied over from the previous installation. The "--recursive option" suggestion made no sense as I was using -a already.

Although it is claiming "No such file or directory," knowing that newer cwRsync installs run under a SvcwRsync user account, and that my original system ran under Administrator, I suspected permissions. Sure enough, granting read access to SvcwRsync for the directory in question solved the problem.

This is probably a problem with the upstream rsync code (or the way Cygwin maps OS errors) and not something that can be fixed in cwRsync, but perhaps should be an FAQ somewhere and maybe passed on to the upstream projects.

-Tom

I have installed the copssh on a german Windows XP and the Server is working. I can login as Administrator.
If it want to add a local user i get a error-message. I think it hase something to to with the german installation. Do anybody have a solution for this?

------------------------------------------------------------
Enter a user account for activation : fffff
/tmp/_tmp1: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/tmp/_tmp1: line 1: `LookupUserFromRid error! (rc=122)'
Generate PKA keypair with null passphrase!
Private key is /home/rihe/.ssh/fffff
A shortcut/symbolic link to your windows home directory is created (myhome).
Zuordnungen von Kontennamen und Sicherheitskennungen wurden nicht durchgeführt.
processed file: C:\Programme\copssh\home\fffff\.ssh\rihe
chown: `fffff:Administrators': invalid group
chown: `fffff:Administrators': invalid group

Activation process for rihe is completed.
You may establish an ssh connection to this machine now.

Hi all,
I have installed the latest cwrsync on my XP box. I want to make backups to my Debian (sarge) box.
The rsync commands are working fine, but it asks me for a password.
I generated with sshkeygen two keys (id_rsa.pub and id_dsa.pub) and placed the in the XP .ssh users home directory. I copied them over to the Debian box, in the home directory under .ssh and parsed them into the authorized_keys file.

The way I generated the keys are:
c:\progra~1\cwrsync\bin\ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f .ssh\id_rsa
c:\progra~1\cwrsync\bin\ssh-keygen -t dsa -N "" -f .ssh\id_dsa

Now I checked the permissioning rights on the Debian box and they seem ok. (Run chmod 644 on the authorized_keys file)

Can anyone help me? Is there a way to increase the logs either on the XP box or on Debian, so I can see what is happening? I have the impression it doesn't even try to authenticate...

Many thanks

I attached the 1>stdout.log 2>sterr.log at the end of the command, but nothing in there.

This is an enhancement request to the copSSH maintainers: Please make it so the Installer does not overwrite files in the /etc directory. In my case, I have server keypairs I've generated myself, a modified config file, and other things which I want to preserve when I install a new version of copSSH.
Let me take this opportunity to say that I think copSSH is a fabulous implementation of OpenSSH on Windows(TM). Bravo!

I installed rsync on a Win2K server. I created an rsync path to /cygdrive/d read-only.When I start rsync from my Linux backup-server, it only receives 4475 files and directories, and I get some 'File has vanished' errors (which is normal for files that have filenames in another coding than used by rsync).

Can the rsync daemon on Windows access all files? Lots of the files on my server have special permissions that only the domain admin and a user can read them. Because the daemon runs as a local user account, I assume it won't work on domain permissions.