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Comment on Westell UltraLine Series3 Model 9100EM by admin

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:06:14 +0000

I’m a developer and worked as a systems administrator for the last 10 years so it’s probably true that I “have no concept of networking.” Kidding aside, I haven’t used Windows (at home) for a while now so maybe I’m missing the automatic port forwarding. I’m not near the router now but I’m pretty sure I would’ve turned off automatic port forwarding anyway (hello security risks).

I did manage to get everything I need set up and I’ll update this post in a while.

I would like to point out that this router is a POS for several reasons. Without going in to it too much here’s one or two reasons. First, the router doesn’t support 802.11n (b and g are supported). Second, it has some pretty small tables (more on that later). Last, it’s got pretty bad range, I’ve ended up using a Linksys router as a WAP with the Westell handing out DHCP addresses.

Comment on Sync Windows Directories with Linux by Richard Minutillo

Richard Minutillo — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:48:40 +0000

Got ssh to work: created the .ssh directory from the command line. No problem.

Comment on Sync Windows Directories with Linux by Richard Minutillo

Richard Minutillo — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:07:31 +0000

This was very helpful, but running rsync under Windows7 I get something like this:

Could not create directory ‘/home/me/.ssh’.
The authenticity of host ‘myhost’ can’t be established.
RSA key fingerprint is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/home/me/.ssh/known_hosts).

So Windows7 prevents the creation of any directory whose name starts with the period character. The rsync command itself works once I enter ‘yes’ at the prompts which are coming from ssh, but I cannot execute the command unattended.

The host is in fact a known host to my windows system, since I can connect with Putty and Filezilla, it’s just that command line ssh cannot create its directory named .ssh. Is there a syntax that will allow me to substtute PuTTY for ssh?

Comment on Sync Windows Directories with Linux by Evgeny

Evgeny — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:18:45 +0000

THANKS!!!

Comment on Westell UltraLine Series3 Model 9100EM by LordKitsuna

LordKitsuna — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:52:10 +0000

wow wtf is wrong with you lol. besides the fact that 90% of the time this router port forwards itself (windows computers mostly) the port forwarding is very easy and actually rather advanced in how it lets you set it up. its very nice for both home users and IT users. you clearly have no consept of networking after what i just read.

Comment on Sync Windows Directories with Linux by abenderx

abenderx — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:30:10 +0000

DOH forget it – typo on the remote account O.o I should have waited before I commented lol.

Comment on Sync Windows Directories with Linux by abenderx

abenderx — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:23:13 +0000

Great article – I am having one issue someone might know about here. When I run multiple rsync commands in the same batch file, I get a paasword prompt on the second rsync and onwards. Would the ssh session from the previous line be impacting the key call somehow??

Comment on Sync Windows Directories with Linux by ilissan

ilissan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:57:07 +0000

correction:

SET HOME=%USERPROFILE%

Comment on Sync Windows Directories with Linux by ilissan

ilissan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:56:26 +0000

Nice tut, thanks!
IMPORTANT to know that in the Batch example file if you are running it from scheduled task you should change home directory from
SET HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
to
SET HOME TO %USERPROFILE%
in order to point to the correct path.

Comment on Vista Won’t Remember Network Passwords? by Matt Smart

Matt Smart — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:19:28 +0000

Bump! Thanks very much for this. I’ve been looking for ages for a way to solve this problem… now Vista is much more usable.

Matt