Thanks @Craig Barratt.  Looks like it is a little bit of both.  When I turned the firewall completely off and ran your command, I got the below.  However, I was never able to get in as it is asking for a root password for Windows and when I enter my password, it rejects it.  Strange, as when I run this command as backuppc “ssh akibu@akibu-desktop” and enter my Windows password, it allows me into the Windows computer.

 

 

 

$ /usr/bin/ssh -v -x -l root akibu-desktop /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender -svvvlHogDtprce.iLsf < /dev/null

OpenSSH_7.4p1 Debian-10, OpenSSL 1.0.2k  26 Jan 2017

debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config

debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *

debug1: Connecting to akibu-desktop [10.10.10.10] port 22.

debug1: Connection established.

debug1: SELinux support disabled

Could not create directory '/home/backuppc/.ssh'.

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_dsa type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1

debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory

debug1: identity file /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1

debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0

debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.4p1 Debian-10

debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_7.5

debug1: match: OpenSSH_7.5 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000

debug1: Authenticating to akibu-desktop:22 as 'root'

debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent

debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received

debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256

debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256

debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305 AT openssh DOT com MAC: <implicit> compression: none

debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305 AT openssh DOT com MAC: <implicit> compression: none

debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY

debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:BJndmmiWWaTD7+/ZIckopnp79Q/KlyFl6GVsqIE5mh4

The authenticity of host 'akibu-desktop (10.10.10.10)' can't be established.

ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:BJndmmiWWaTD7+/ZIckopnp79Q/KlyFl6GVsqIE5mh4.

Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes

Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/home/backuppc/.ssh/known_hosts).

debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks

debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent

debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS

debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received

debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks

debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received

debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521>

debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

debug1: Next authentication method: publickey

debug1: Trying private key: /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa

debug1: Trying private key: /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_dsa

debug1: Trying private key: /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_ecdsa

debug1: Trying private key: /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_ed25519

debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

debug1: Next authentication method: password

root@akibu-desktop's password:

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

Permission denied, please try again.

root@akibu-desktop's password:

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

Permission denied, please try again.

root@akibu-desktop's password:

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

debug1: No more authentication methods to try.

Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

$

 

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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexplained Error Code 255 - BackupPC