[CentOS] rsync problems on windows - Solved

Thu May 3 04:41:41 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 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/.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com