rsync - Oct 2003 - Rsync Problem mith UNC paths

We're using rsync 2.5.6 version 26.

Want to synch two W2K directories which are not on my machine (machine1  synchs
machine2 -> machine3)

I would like to synch the 2 direcories with the following syntax:
rsync.exe -rva //remote_server1/share$/dir1/default.asp remote_server2::dir2/

When I try this it seems to work:
building file list ... 
1 file to consider
send_files failed to open //remote_server1/share$/dir1/default.asp: No such file
or directory

No files have been synched!!!!

When I connect the remote drive to my machine with
Net use x: \\remote_server1\share$ <\\remote_server1\share$> 

Then use the cygdrive syntax (as follows)
rsync.exe -rva /cygdrive/x/dir1/default.asp remote_server::dir2/ 
Everything works fine!!!!

Because I run this synch as a batch job I would like to connect directly with
the UNC path.

Does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks

Thomas M?ller-Lynch

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:26:08PM +0200, Mueller-Lynch Thomas
wrote:
> rsync.exe -rva //remote_server1/share$/dir1/default.asp
remote_server2::dir2/
Rsync does not consider "//" to be different from "/", so
that may be
thwarting you.  Try something like this to work around the problem:

cd \\remote_server1\share$
rsync -rva dir1/default.asp remote_server2::dir2/

..wayne..

rsync" -varu //server\share/ /cygdrive/d/backup

Works fine

Wayne Davison a ?crit :
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:26:08PM +0200, Mueller-Lynch Thomas wrote:
>> rsync.exe -rva //remote_server1/share$/dir1/default.asp
remote_server2::dir2/
> 
> Rsync does not consider "//" to be different from "/",
so that may be
> thwarting you.  Try something like this to work around the problem:
> 
> cd \\remote_server1\share$
> rsync -rva dir1/default.asp remote_server2::dir2/
> 
> ..wayne..