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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 15:05:05 +0200
From: Lapo Luchini <lapo AT lapo DOT it>
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To: "Brown, Wes (GEL, MSX)" <Elmer DOT Brown AT lighting DOT ge DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rsync across SMB using NT
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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 AT cygwin DOT 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 From the manual, related but I think outdated: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>> 
>
>  
>
-- 
Lapo 'Raist' Luchini
lapo AT lapo DOT it (PGP & X.509 keys available)
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