Problem with rsyncd in Windows XP

[Alan Chandler]

On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 08:41, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I have long backed up my work laptop (running win2k) by running the rsync
> daemon using cygrunsrv on the lap top and using an overnight cron job from
> my Debian server to suck out all the data and save it.
>
> I have just got a new laptop that runs XP (professional).  I set up rsync
> on there identically to before.  From my server, I can get see that the
> rsync daemon is running because I can get it to list the modules it will
> serve.
>
> However as soon as I try and access any data for real I get access denied
> failures  (see below for the output)

Just to say I have tried some other things over the weekend all of which did 
not change the problem

I tried adding -u Administrator to the cygrunsrv install command - as I found 
on one web site, but it made no difference

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.

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