cygwin rsync & Windows firewall

Jeff Mancuso
Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:57:18 -0000

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out why using a cygwin compiled version of rsync [both
the cwRsync distribution and the deltacopy distribution] are prompting the user
for an inbound firewall exception on Windows [testing on Win7]. I'm not
doing anything fancy, just pushing out to a remote through ssh [rsync.exe
local_path user at server.com:/absolute/remote path]. Everything works fine even
if I deny the entry through the firewall - which you'd expect. Even if I
operate only on local paths I still am prompted for the firewall exception.

1. What is the reason rsync is opening a port? Is this some odd artifact of a
cygwin compilation?

2. Can I disable this behavior without a custom patch?

I ask because I'm trying to cleanly wrap the program for novice end users
and the firewall prompt is confusing & disconcerting.

Thanks!

-Jeff
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