Known problems with rsync 2.6.6? (Solved)

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Andy Pitonyak wrote:
>>> In my case, the problem prevents an rsync on drives local to the
>>> machine.
> 
>> Perhaps using ssh is still an option?
> 
> That had not occurred to me to try. Treat the local drive as a remote
> drive and use ssh... I know how to do that in Linux, but not in cygwin....
> I suppose that I simply need to start a daemon to listen for ssh
> connections.

Install "Openssh", run ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config.  Try to ssh
to 'localhost'.  If that works, port 22 is likely available and you should
be able to rsync over ssh! :-)  If not, you may be out of luck while running
your VPN client. :-(

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