Topic: sync2nas between windows and sme

[RobynS]

I've installed sync2nas on my windows 2003 machine and can successfully backup to my sme server locally however i want to do this offsite and so far i can't get it to work. If i run an rsync script between 2 sme servers over a wan all is good, but cannot get windows to sme over the internet only locally.Help!

[RobynS]

does anyone out there have any experience with sync2nas as the client on windows and sme servers, is there something on windows side i'm forgetting to install, so close and yet so far, Please help
RobynS

[Brenno]

Robyn,

sync2nas uses the rsync protocol on port 873, which will work fine over a local network.  However, sync2nas does not support SSH, so when you try to connect from a remote location your SME server blocks the sync2nas connection attempt at the firewall level.  This will show up in your server logs like this:

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May 24 09:48:23 kernel: denylog: SRC=64.25.xxx.xxx DST=216.75.xxx.xxx PROTO=TCP SPT=1092 DPT=873 WINDOW=16384

Of course, that's been abbreviated, but you get the idea.