cwRsync- chdir failed, server 2003

Chris Bartram [IT Department] Chris.Bartram at mail.nasuwt.org.uk
Mon Oct 4 08:48:02 GMT 2004


I'm having prolems with cwRsync on server 2003. I'm getting pretty much
identical results to this from the archive:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-April/009187.html, and as far
as I can see the only suggestion there was to check permissions.

I have one further complication too- I'm trying to sync a remote server
on to a vmware virtual disk that I've mounted using the tools at
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vdk.html.

I've got the package installed and set the upload directory during the
install to the virtual disk (V: under windows), and I've checked that
the disk is writeable.

I've got the service started and here's the config file:
****************************************************************
use chroot = false
strict modes = false
hosts allow = *
log file = rsyncd.log
pid file = rsyncd.pid

# Module definitions
# Make sure that writable modules are implemented as subdirectories of
<cwRsync installation # directory>\data. That would ensure propagation
of correct ownership for files/directories. # 
[test] path = /cygdrive/c/cwrsync/data 
read only = false 
transfer logging = yes 
[files] 
path = /cygdrive/v 
read only = false 
transfer logging = yes

*************************************************************

So I then go to another PC and (either with cwrsync or rsync under
manually installed cygwin, or rsync on linux) do the following:


------------------------------------------------------------
$ rsync /some/directory hq-dr01::files
@ERROR: chdir failed
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (33 bytes read so far) rsync
error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
/home/lapo/packagi
ng/tmp/rsync-2.6.0/io.c(189)
------------------------------------------------------------

And looked in the logfile on the server:

2004/09/30 13:52:28 [500] rsyncd version 2.6.2 starting, listening on
port 873 2004/09/30 13:52:52 [176] chdir /cygdrive/v failed
: No such file or directory


BUT, if I start a cygwin shell on the server machine, I get this:


#######################################################################
$ cd /cygdrive/

Administrator at hq-dr01 /cygdrive
$ ls -al
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x   11 0        root            0 Jan  1  1970 .
drwxrwx---+   9 Administ mkgroup-        0 Sep 30 11:18 ..
drwxrwxr-x+  17 Administ root            0 Sep 28 12:30 c
drwxrwxr-x+  13 Administ SYSTEM          0 Sep 29 11:30 d
drwxrwxr-x+   9 Administ SYSTEM          0 Sep 29 08:41 e
drwxrwxr-x+   9 Administ SYSTEM          0 Sep 27 15:49 f
drwxrwxrwx+  15 Administ root            0 Sep 30 11:41 v
drwxr-xr-x    1 Administ mkgroup-        0 Sep 20 11:41 w
drwxrwxr-x+   4 Administ SYSTEM          0 Aug  6 12:20 y

Administrator at hq-dr01 /cygdrive
$ cd v

Administrator at hq-dr01 /cygdrive/v
$ ls -al
total 818
drwxrwxrwx+  15 Administ root            0 Sep 30 11:41 .
dr-xr-xr-x   11 0        root            0 Jan  1  1970 ..
drwxrwxrwx+   5 Administ ????????        0 Jun 11 10:13 Audit
drwxrwxrwx+   7 Administ ????????        0 Sep 15 12:12 CTXHOME
d---------   25 Administ ????????        0 Sep 29 10:43 Departments
d---------  114 Administ ????????        0 Sep 29 04:01 Home Folders
d---------   15 Administ ????????        0 Sep 29 05:43 IT
drwxrwxrwx+  11 Administ ????????        0 Sep 29 05:47 MTLlive-Backup
drwxrwxrwt+   5 Administ ????????        0 Sep 29 05:48 Profile
drwxrwxrwx+  16 Administ ????????        0 Sep 29 08:27 Regional Centres
- Repli
cated
d---rwx---    2 Administ SYSTEM          0 Sep 29 08:39 System Volume
Informatio
n
drwxrwxrwx+   4 Administ ????????        0 Sep 29 08:34 VSR
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ ????????   837039 Apr  7 10:28 bootme.exe
drwxrwxrwx+   2 Administ ????????        0 Sep 30 13:45 cwrsync
drwxr-xr-x+   4 Administ ????????        0 Sep 29 05:44 msi-packs
drwxrwxrwx+   2 Administ ????????        0 Sep 30 11:29 windows

Administrator at hq-dr01 /cygdrive/v

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#########

Can anyone give me any clue as to what's wrong? I'm fairly sure the
permissions are ok: at a NT level I've set everyone full control on the
writeable area to test it.

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