[CentOS] rsync problems on windows - Solved

[Les Mikesell]

Ruslan Sivak wrote:

>>>>> I'm not running any firewalls AFAIK.  I disabled mcafee, but the 
>>>>> error persists.  I even tried a different os (win 2003, no 
>>>>> firewall, no antivirus) and I'm still getting the same problem.  
>>>>> Any way to troubleshoot?  I tried wireshark, but I all I are are 
>>>>> encrypted packets and a rst at the end from the client.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also the error pops up intantrneously, no timeout.  It then hangs 
>>>>> until I ctrl-c out of it. Ssh works fine btw.  I can use it and get 
>>>>> a shell.
>>>>>
>>>>> I looked at the rsync.c file, but couldn't locate that error text 
>>>>> anywhere.  Is that an error from rsync or ssh?   Is there a way to 
>>>>> tell it not to use ssh to eliminate it as a problem?
>>>>
>>>> I just downloaded a current cwrsync and was able to cd into its bin 
>>>> directory and 'rsync -av . root at centos_box:/tmp/test' without any 
>>>> problems.  Maybe you have a problem with paths or another copy of 
>>>> the cygwin.dll somewhere.
>>>>
>>> I checked for any other versions of cygwin1.dll, and although there 
>>> were a few, they weren't in the path.  I finally got process monitor 
>>> and process explorer and saw that for some reason it was using 
>>> hlcap.dll.  I guess HTTPLook caused yet another problem.  Thanks to 
>>> everyone that helped.  Does anyone know of a program like httplook 
>>> for windows that doesn't break everything?
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what it does (its home page seems to redirect to 
>> something in Russian), but if you want generic network sniffer, try 
>> wireshark: http://www.wireshark.org/.
>>
> I do have wireshark, but HTTPLook is better in that it captures only 
> HTTP traffic, which is all I'm interested in.  It organizes it in a nice 
> timeline of requests and responses and I can see exactly what went on 
> for each request.

You can specify a 'port 80' filter on the capture with wireshark, then 
arrange/filter/view the data about any way you might want.  If you don't 
care much about the network layer you can 'follow stream' which will 
show a color-coded content-only view.

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