On 3/24/2010 10:47 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> I started from scratch on my own admin-backup laptop running WinXP. I've just
> managed to get ssh working, connecting from the BPC-server to Windows. Adding
> the Win-client to the BPC-server, and using rsync as a backup method, I get
> that dreaded "Unable to read 4 bytes", which tells me the passwordless login
> for user "backuppc" didn't quite work out as expected...
>
> Anyway, I can ssh in to the WinXP-machine using a *local* account on the
> machine itself. Anything else, ie a domain account, just won't work for me.
> Shouldn't be a problem anyway, on the Win2k3-server, as the local admin
> account on that particular machine has access to the user folders I want to
> backup.
>
> I'm expecting a nightly reboot of the Win2k3-server I've been working on
> before, as Cygwin has been locked to lsass.exe, and I want to delete
> everything Cygwin and start from scratch on that machine as well.
>
> Tomorrow will tell if ssh to a Win2k3-machine will work as well. Here's
> hoping. 8-}

Did you run the cygwin mkpasswd and mkgroup tools with the -D domain 
option to build the needed local passwd/group files to work with domain 
logins?

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   Les Mikesell
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