On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:49 AM, threehappypenguins
<backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
>
> I had assumed that he meant the command prompt that in windows. I ran it as 
> an Administrator and I tried putting the line for Windows XP (changing cygwin 
> to cygwin64 where appropriate). I got the following result:
>
> 'cygrunsrv.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, 
> operable program or batch file.

The cygwin programs are not in you usual windows PATH.

> So then I ran the cygwin terminal as an Administrator. I put in the line the 
> tutorial gave and nothing happened. So I assumed it worked, because when I 
> put it in again, it said that it couldn't do it because the service was 
> already running. So then I put "net start rsync". I got the following result:
>
> The service did not start due to a logon failure.
>
> I right clicked on Computer and clicked on Manage. I found the rsync service 
> and saw that it was set to run Automatically, but it wasn't running. I tried 
> to start it and it said the exact same thing as in the cygwin terminal.

I haven't used windows 8 but I think it makes it hard to do things
with administrator rights.   According to this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755249.aspx
you should still be able to configure the service to log on as a user
with access to the files.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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