cygwin rsync hang under Windows Terminal Services session

[Alan Adams (DSLWN)]

Hi, though the list would be interested to know an issue we have just come
across.
 
We have found that rsync version 2.5.6 over ssh within a cygwin environment
run manually from either a command prompt or a cygwin prompt hangs every
time if we run it in a Windows Terminal Server session. It doesn't seem to
matter what the remote server is as we have experienced this when the remote
server is Win2K running cygwin and a native Linux. But it doesn't hang when
we run it from the Windows console or in a VNC session or via an ssh
terminal session. I assume this means the terminal environment set up by a
WTS session is somehow different and either cygwin or ssh or rsync is not
handling it. The environment we have tested this in is as follows;
 
Client
- Win2K SP2 and SP3
- cygserver (cygwin) 1.5, API version 1.3.22(0.78/3/1)-(1.0.0.2) 2003-03-18
09:20, Compiled on Mar 18 2003 (output from cygserver -v)
- rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 (output from rsync --version)
- OpenSSH_3.6.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090702f (output from
ssh -V)
 
Server 1
- Red Hat 7.3
- rsync version 2.5.4 protocol version 26 (output from rsync --version)
- OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f (output from ssh
-V)
 
Server 2
- Win2k SP3
- cygserver (cygwin) 1.5, API version 1.3.22(0.78/3/1)-(1.0.0.2) 2003-03-18
09:20, Compiled on Mar 18 2003 (output from cygserver -v)
- rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 (output from rsync --version)
- OpenSSH_3.6.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090702f (output from
ssh -V)
 
 
Alan Adams 
Email: alana at datacom.co.nz <mailto:alana at datacom.co.nz>