rsync across SMB using NT

[Lapo Luchini]

Brown, Wes (GEL, MSX) wrote:

>Lapo,
>
>First, please excuse the use of M$ Outlook.  I hope that this message will
>not be so mangled that you can not read it.
>
And excuse me for quoting the entire, message but I'm using it also as a 
forward to the correct place the question should be (the mailing list 
cygwin@cygwin.com).
The problem is not with rsync itself but in the way cygwin maps windows 
paths to posix paths, if I remember well UNC paths aren't supported at all.

Related message (with no reply):
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg00385.html

 From the manual, related but I think outdated:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#AEN464

>Second, I do not know if you are the person that would be interested in the
>problem.  I am a Un*x administrator that has been pushed into supporting a
>few applications on NT while the developers move onto the Solaris systems.
>
>To make a long story short, I looked a using rsync much the way I would on
>my Un*x systems.  I need to copy web content from the QA environment to the
>production environment.  I would like to do this from cron without the use
>of mapping a drive.  So I tried the following command:
>
>rsync -vr --perms --stats --progress //nelinalige/webprod/survey . 
>
>The system I ran this on was my workstation with cygwin.  I do not know
>exactly how to tell what version of cygwin I have, but I just ran the update
>a little while ago and had it update everything.
>
>I have attached the strace output of the command shown above.  Thank you for
>any assistance that you may be able to provide.
>
>Wes
>
>rsync  version 2.5.5  protocol version 26
>Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
><http://rsync.samba.org/>
>Capabilities: 32-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
>              no IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
>
> <<strace.out>> 
>
>  
>
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