rsync - Feb 2005 - Rsync run on TCP/IP?

Dear All,

  I have searched the email archive but i didn't find a clear
answer(maybe I miss it) ^^

 1. Does rsync run on TCP/IP?
 2. Without ssh, then rsync will be transferred in plain text? 
 3. Does rsync support Samba? Am I true to say that rsync, which is
mainly on user authetication,  is transparent  to the storage like
ftp?

 Any help to any questions will be appreciated! Thank You!

Regards,
Fred

fred wu wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>  I have searched the email archive but i didn't find a clear
>answer(maybe I miss it) ^^
>
> 1. Does rsync run on TCP/IP?
>  
>
Rsync has a server mode. Read the manual, and particularly the 
"--daemon" option.
> 2. Without ssh, then rsync will be transferred in plain text? 
>  
>
If you don't use SSH (or another encryption encapsulation, such as 
sslproxy), the data will be transferred in plain text.
> 3. Does rsync support Samba? Am I true to say that rsync, which is
>mainly on user authetication,  is transparent  to the storage like
>ftp?
>  
>
rsync works on the file system. It doesn't care what the file system is. 
If it's a samba mount, then that's ok. I am not aware of a FTP 
filesystem, and therefor can't say that it will work over ftp.
> Any help to any questions will be appreciated! Thank You!
>
>Regards,
>Fred
>  
>
          Shachar

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