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ssh/scp works but rsync just constantly says “no”

Hi I have a windows 2003 server that I need to back up onto a linux client so I install cygwin on the Win2k3. On the Win2k3 I have enabled ssh, scp but (because the Win2k3 server uses an customised ...
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Connection closed by remote host [closed]

Restarted a machine with cygwin installed, getting a weird error after password success. Has anyone run into this before? user@172.XXX.XXX.XXX's password: debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for ...
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I'm able to remotely ssh into Cygwin on XP, but it warns “Could not chdir to home directory” and my /bin is almost empty

I've made a firewall exception, opened ports 22 through 443 to the correct internal IP (I think), and am able to log in using my external IP, but it's like I have very limited view access to almost ...
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Need help configuring Openssh on Win2008 via CYGWIN [closed]

I am trying to configure an OpenSSH server on Windows Server 2008 Datacenter via CYGWIN. I have installed and configured CYGWIN with OpenSSH and Basic LinuxUtils. I am logging onto the system on a ...
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is it possible to trigger `ssh-add <key>` only when I ssh into a box? (from Cygwin)

I've got my .bash_profile set up to eval $(ssh-agent) so I can quickly connect to servers. If I add ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_my_key to my .bash_profile as well, I'll have to type the ssh key passphrase ...
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Why doesn't my new cygwin .bashrc interactive check work?

I just updated Cygwin and the new .bashrc contains this line right at the top: echo "BEFORE TEST" # If not running interactively, don't do anything [[ "$-" != *i* ]] && return echo "AFTER ...
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Xterm is not completely erasing field lines

We are running Windows Clients with Cygwin XServer that has a bash script application running on AIX Unix. We have a login script using expect to ssh into the server and then xterm to create the ...