Hello list, I thought all my rsync worries were over last time I posted here, but unfortunately I was wrong. I am using cwrsync to backup a Windows XP machine onto a Windows 2000 machine over our LAN. Relevant versions: cwRsync 1.2.3, Rsync 2.6.2, cygwin1.dll 1.5.9-1, openssh 3.8.1p1-1 This worked for several months, but recently (http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-October/010781.html) I had to reconfigure my exclude parameter to be a little more specific. It worked fine for a few days, but early last week it failed again. I can't start the rsync service as any other user on the XP machine. I get "error 1069," which is a Windows logon error: "The service did not start due to a logon failure.) nor could I find out how to open the services control panel as the cwrsync user even after making them an administrator. Also of no help were un/re-installing cwrsync, using a different default username, and making an existing user account the "cwrsync" user. Some setting seems borked somewhere. Hopefully I'm just missing something obvious. I'd appreciate the help of anyone out there with some useful information on this issue. Thank you in advance!