> 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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