rsync question

[vektor]

Hi,

I'm able to rsync from my mac using a comand like this...

rsync -av [email protected]:/home/macuser/Data/vektor_jobs/outlaw_media/outlaw_media_logo_v2.ai /Users/pete/Desktop/


but what I would really like to do is sync the other way once I've connected to my vpn and ssh'd onto the box like so...

rsync -av home/macuser/Data/vektor_jobs/outlaw_media/video_play.ai [email protected]:/Users/pete/Desktop/

but I get this error
ssh: connect to host 10.8.1.6 port 22: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(600) [sender=3.0.5]

Can anyone help? I'm presuming i'm on 10.8.1.6 as viscosity gives me this as my client ip.

Many thanks in advance

[James]

Hi vektor,

If you're unable to access your other computer at all (not just with rsync), you'll probably want to check your firewall and NAT settings (for a tun connection) on your OpenVPN server. You may also want to look into using the "client-to-client" option if both computers are connected to the VPN. See the OpenVPN documentation page for more information.

You're probably better off asking this on the rsync mailing list to see if anyone has encountered a similar issue before.

Cheers,
James