Thanks for the suggestion. The problem occurs whether
machines have static or dynamic (DHCP) IP addresses.
Also, this problem only ever occurs when rsync is
running (the first few minutes of a user login when
conditions are met) - never during normal use (e.g.
user with IE open etc).
Any other
XP sucks and has this problem. Try putting the following into a script (you
may want to cron this hourly)
@echo off
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
Original Message Follows
From: peter pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rsync/jscript/cygwin problem
Date: S
I'm using a javascript program to execute rsync 2.5.6
compiled with cygwin on Windows XP Pro machines.
These backup the user's "My Documents" folder to a
Linux server running rsync 2.5.6 in daemon mode
when the user logs in to XP and certain conditions are
met (e.g. user hasn't backed up for a fe
