Russ 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com