cwRsync- chdir failed, server 2003

Mon Oct 4 12:04:09 GMT 2004

Hi,

If you use cwRsync as a server, make sure that you set CYGWIN=nontsec as a
system environment variable and restart the RsyncServer service. Check FAQ
at http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=faq&FAQ_op=view&FAQ_id=12.

In addition, cwrsync service account must have full access to uploadable
directories.

If you don't do this, then cygwin manipulates windows ACLs causing
unexpectible results. Mapping between unix permissions and windows ACLs is
not a simple task.

cwRsync (both server and client mode) on windows 2003 works just fine. I
recently installed cwRsync 1.2.6 Server (rsync 2.6.3 + cygwin 1.5.11 +
openssh 3.9p1) on a 2003 std.edition server and cwrsync client on an XP
PC. They work just fine (initial run: 580 MB, 4 000 files, 5 MB/sec
throughput). As long as you follow instructions above, cwRsync should work
for all drives accessible by cygwin.

Rgrds Tev

cwRsync maintainer

> 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
>
> ########################################################################
> #########
>
> 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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