Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync on Windows 8 - Service Logon Failure?

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:49 AM, threehappypenguins
<bac...@ba...> wrote:
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> I had assumed that he meant the command prompt that in windows. I ran it as an Administrator and I tried putting the line for Windows XP (changing cygwin to cygwin64 where appropriate). I got the following result:
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> 'cygrunsrv.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

The cygwin programs are not in you usual windows PATH.

> So then I ran the cygwin terminal as an Administrator. I put in the line the tutorial gave and nothing happened. So I assumed it worked, because when I put it in again, it said that it couldn't do it because the service was already running. So then I put "net start rsync". I got the following result:
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> The service did not start due to a logon failure.
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> I right clicked on Computer and clicked on Manage. I found the rsync service and saw that it was set to run Automatically, but it wasn't running. I tried to start it and it said the exact same thing as in the cygwin terminal.

I haven't used windows 8 but I think it makes it hard to do things
with administrator rights.   According to this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755249.aspx
you should still be able to configure the service to log on as a user
with access to the files.

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  Les Mikesell
     les...@gm...