From: tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de (Stipe Tolj) Subject: Re: Remote tar 26 Sep 1998 06:54:50 -0700 Message-ID: <360C107F.EE95AC2E.cygnus.gnu-win32@uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <3606D8BE DOT BBFCADE2 AT deneb DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stephen Vance Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > I have been trying to use the Cygwin tar to backup remotely to a tape > drive on a Linux host, but get error messages that the remote host or > device can't be found. I have verified that I can rsh to the Linux box, > although the rsh being used is the WinNT version. I have also used the > Linux tar on the machines other boot personality successfully to backup > up remotely. > > I stopped short of installing ssh and trying to use it as the > --rsh-program, although I did explicitly specify the WinNT version with > no different behavior. > > Does anyone know why this doesn't work? Current theories are: > > 1) WinNT rsh does not supply the necessary piping functionality for the > rmt interface. > 2) The binary open issue is rearing its ugly head yet again. > 3) This functionality has never been tested or explicitly ported under > Cygwin. > > For reference, the command being used is > > tar cvf kat:/dev/st0 . you may be using rsync-2.1.1 from http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync. Just configure and make the package on both systems. Run rsync as standalone daemon on the Linux machine and access it via the client version of rsync on WinNT. Currently the orginal distribution will only support the client part of rsync on Cygwin32. I am working on the port to support the daemon part too. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin32 Porting Project Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".