Windows....i feel sorry for your company.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Robert Scholten wrote:
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:26:01 +1100 (EST)
> From: Robert Scholten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Bryan K. Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Rsync in smbclient?
>
> > I've also looked into running the cygwin-based rsync and sshd
> > on the NT box. In this case, I run into problems with getting transparent,
> > passwordless access (for unattended mirroring), and just the difficulty of
> > getting a working version of rsync, sshd and cygwin.dll installed and
> > configured.
> > (Not to mention the fact that you also need 'mount' to get to drives other than
> > "C:".) After playing around with one machine and getting it to sort of work,
> > I found that what I'd done didn't work on a second machine, so I've dropped the
> > project for now. In any case, the lack of passwordless access alone is a
> > killer.
>
> Doing it with cygwin/rsync shouldn't be a problem (no more so than an
> rsync option to smbclient). If you run sshd on the (presumably Linux or
> Unix) rsync server, passwordless access is pretty straightforward. The
> rsync "server" can have a limited authorization key for the NT machine
> (i.e. so that ssh from the NT machine can *only* do rsync). With Task
> Scheduler, it becomes very easy to set up on the Windows machines. You
> don't need to 'mount' the drives either, you can specify the drive with
> "/cygdrive/d" and so on.
>
> Doing it all in reverse in the fashion you suggest (sshd on the NT box)
> should also be possible - apparently people have it working regularly -
> but I can't attest to that.
>
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