Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D4E7801.5070705@lapo.it> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 15:05:05 +0200 From: Lapo Luchini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 X-Accept-Language: it, en, fr, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brown, Wes (GEL, MSX)" CC: Mailing List: CygWin Subject: Re: rsync across SMB using NT References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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message (with no reply): http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg00385.html From the manual, related but I think outdated: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#AEN464 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 > >Capabilities: 32-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, > no IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums > > <> > > > -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini lapo@lapo.it (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/