Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-20 Thread Stefan
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Britton Kerin wrote: Im surprised that unison would die on long file names. The unison people say they still bug fix support unison, have you reported the problems to them? They know about the problem, it has been there forever. It seems to be connected to the Windows API

Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-17 Thread Stefan
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005 18:00, Debian Users wrote: I have read about tunneling the SMB traffic through an ssh tunnel, but that would also mean turning off the usual network browsing of the remote Windows box, which is cumbersome at least. No, it

Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-08 Thread Britton Kerin
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 02:00:44 +0100, "Debian Users" said: > Now for the interesting thing: our network does not allow SMB access from > outside (its the universiy's policy, I cannot change that): SMB ports are > blocked. I still would like to synchronize the data on e.g. my laptop and > the file

Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-08 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 18:00, Debian Users wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using a Win XP feature called "Offline Files", which is basically > like having a replica of files which are orginally on a network drive and > letting XP decide whether to work on the local replica or the actual > netwo

Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-08 Thread Stefan
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Dick Davies wrote: Does windows have rsync? You need: * ssh access to the remote box * an rsync binary (not a server) on the remote and local hosts * enough privilege on the remote host to see the files you want Thank you for your suggestion, but rsync will not do the tric

Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-08 Thread Dick Davies
On 08/12/05, Debian Users wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using a Win XP feature called "Offline Files", which is basically > like having a replica of files which are orginally on a network drive and > letting XP decide whether to work on the local replica or the actual > network files. The user does

Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-07 Thread Debian Users
Hello all, I am using a Win XP feature called "Offline Files", which is basically like having a replica of files which are orginally on a network drive and letting XP decide whether to work on the local replica or the actual network files. The user doesn't notice the difference. After reconnec