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bodtx
bodtx

Reputation: 609

cwrsync rsync: did not see server greeting

Hello I try to rsync with ssh from windows to linux but I have this message: rsync: did not see server greeting

I tried rsync ssh from linux to linux, it works. So here is my command on windows:

C:\Temp\cwRsync_5.5.0_x86_Free\bin>Rsync -av -e "./ssh -i C:\Temp\id_rsa" /cygdrive/c/Temp [email protected]::.
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Temp\id_rsa':
rsync: did not see server greeting
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1648) [sender=3.1.2]

here is the server auth.log:

Mar  3 01:00:13 ORDI sshd[16605]: Accepted publickey for ouistX from 192.168.1.15 port 50590 ssh2: RSA a7:XX:b3:XX:8d:XX:4c:5a:87:XX:2a:55:a9:37:54:45
Mar  3 01:00:14 ORDI sshd[16624]: Received disconnect from 192.168.1.15: 11: disconnected by user

it seems there is a problem with the client, version problem?

this is the free version of cwrsync.

thx

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9083

Answers (3)

Anton Strogonoff
Anton Strogonoff

Reputation: 34042

If you want to rsync over SSH, but you’re getting “did not see server greeting” and “error starting client-server protocol”, make sure the destination is specified with a single colon before filesystem path:

rsync -avz -e "ssh -i <somekey>" somedir <user>@<host>:somedir

Destination with double colon before filesystem path (like <user>@<host>::somedir) makes rsync use its daemon instead of SSH even if you specify an SSH executable with -e flag.

It is stated in rsync manual—you can see the separate section “Access via rsync daemon” using double colon before target filesystem path when the port is unspecified:

SYNOPSIS
       Local:  rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [DEST]

       Access via remote shell:
         Pull: rsync [OPTION...] [USER@]HOST:SRC... [DEST]
         Push: rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST:DEST

       Access via rsync daemon:
         Pull: rsync [OPTION...] [USER@]HOST::SRC... [DEST]
               rsync [OPTION...] rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC... [DEST]
         Push: rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST::DEST
               rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/DEST

I stumbled across this same issue because rsync’s manual doesn’t make it very obvious.

Upvotes: 4

netkong
netkong

Reputation: 19

may the port of your rsync server has been used, if be used, the rsync server can also start success, but has the problem like this:

rsync: did not see server greeting rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1503) [sender=3.0.6]

Upvotes: 0

bodtx
bodtx

Reputation: 609

Finally it seems to be an ssh version compatibility. I finnaly choose full sync which handle sftp connection with ssh key. Not as good as rsync, but still very good

Upvotes: 0

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