rsync Samba and Windoz

[Scott.Prive at storigen.com (Scott Prive)]

One last option, if your daemon doesn't work on Windows:
you can use the Windows API to disable sleep mode, then restore the setting upon exit. I would be of no help in this area, but Cygwin does provide access to Win32 and it can be used with gcc.





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:08 PM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: rsync Samba and Windoz
> 
> 
> No, for this purpose, I probably would set up a small Windows 
> native daemon 
> that would keep the system alive. I have not thought about 
> exactly how I 
> would implement it. SSHD is one of several methods. 
> 
> On 12 Sep 2002 at 15:10, ron.peterson at yellowbank.com wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:44:20PM -0400, Scott Prive wrote:
> > 
> > > With Cygwin on the box (I should read ahead before replying to a
> > > thread :-), you could just schedule a bash script on the *Windows*
> > > side, that pushes the data over.
> > 
> > > Cygwin has a cron daemon you can enable, if for some 
> reason the native
> > > NT scheduling thing (whatever it's called) does not do the trick.
> > 
> > If using cron, you might like to put a passwordless public 
> key in the
> > authorized_keys file on the sshd daemon side.  Would you 
> want to put a
> > public key generated on a Windows machine in your Linux box's
> > authorized_keys file?  I'd do it the other way around.  
> Alternatively,
> > use "command=" in the authorized_keys file to restrict the 
> connection to
> > doing the backup operation.  See 'man sshd' for the syntax.
> > 
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