Hi,

Tom Brown wrote on 2011-03-30 16:13:44 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Auth failed 
on module cDrive]:
> It appears I've solved the problem. 

well, then this reply might be redundant or wrong.

> I am surprised it took this long for someone to respond to my inquiry

Sorry, I used to read all mail on this mailing list, but nowadays I'm glad to
find the time to occasionally read some of it ...

> [...]
> If I?ve missed something about handling global and per PC passwords in
> /conf/config.pl and /pc/pc_name/config.pl, please let me know.

Err, what version of BackupPC are you using? The normal locations of
configuration files are $ConfDir/config.pl and $ConfDir/hostname.pl.
Depending on what you mean by "/pc/pc_name/config.pl", that directory might
actually be used for backwards compatibility, but wouldn't it still be
"hostname.pl" (sorry, can't check right now)? In any case, try using
/conf/pc_name.pl instead of /pc/pc_name/config.pl and see if that changes
anything. I'm guessing not only the password in your pc config files is not
used (though it might be the only thing you set in there).

> [...]
> BackupPC reports ?auth failed on module cDrive?. The rsyncd.log on the W7
> client reports ?connect from x226.rbhs.lan; password mismatch?.
> [...]
> When I rsync files from the command line on the backuppc server using
> rsync -av backuppc@daved-hp::cDrive ., I get a series of permission denied
> errors.

That means, on the command line, authentication works for the same
username/password pair?

> receiving file list ...
> rsync: opendir "ygdrive/c/Windows/system32/c:/Documents and Settings" (in
> cDrive) failed: Permission denied (13)

This is an indication of incorrect path names in rsyncd.conf, which might
also be responsible for your password problems. I don't use Windoze and
I don't use rsyncd on Windoze, but google and the BackupPC wiki [1] tell me
that you want something like

        secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

in rsyncd.conf, not something starting with c:/ in any case ...

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Holger

[1] 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=RsyncdWindowsClients

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