Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:06 PM
>> To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host
>>
>> Is there some particular reason for wanting to backup through
>> automounted files systems?  Your full rsyncs are going to have to read
>> the entire contents of the remote machines through the network for the
>> comparison where if you install cygwin rsync on the targets it would do
>> a local read and only transfer block checkums and differences.
> 
> Yeah there is; I couldn't get the rsyncd-package for cygwin to work out. I 
> get 
> an "inet connect: Connection refused"-error when I try running the backup.
> 
> Unfortunately I know too little about the authentication mechanism in Cygwin. 
> I'll look into it during the day.

I think that is a network-layer error, not a failure to authenticate.  The way 
to test a connection to an rsync in daemon mode is to use double :'s from the 
command line rsync like "rsync [options] host::module".  If you don't give a 
destination, you should get a directory listing.

> Anyway, that's why I tried out other ways to connect to the Windows machine. 
> You know, the rule of least resistance... ;-)

The default smb method using smbclient should have worked if automounting works 
- but it might be handy to have automounting set up for other purposes.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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