Can anyone help

[Jamie Rossi]

Hi

I just installed rsync on two servers.

Rsync seems to be running fine on both machines, but I am having
authentication trouble.

Machine A has directories I want to transfer to machine B regularly
Machine B is the one I want to sync to

Can anyone tell me how I do the following>

1. Set up machine a so it accepts machine B connections
2. the syntax from machine A to log in and pull files from machine 


I have been using 
rsync -a <machineA>::destinations /home/backup/destinations/ (on machine
B)
Where <machineB> is the hostname of machine A . It connects to machine A
but then gives the following message

@ERROR: access denied to destinations from unknown (xx.xx.xx.xxx)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (872 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)


This is my first time with rsync and its driving me mad!

Regards

Jamie