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@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ The generated key is in the current directory and you need to move them to ~/.ss
Now finally you can use all the usual command line tools at yor wsl command line to communicate with the server with ssh, scp, rsync, such as:
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<tt>rsync -nazv --delete-after --prune-empty-dirs expo@expo.survex.com:expofiles/ expofiles</tt></pre>
<p>But this only works with WSL1 not WSL2 ! Under WSL1 it doesn't matter if your /expofiles/ is mounted on the Linux filesystem, typically under /home/expo/expofiles, or whether it it in the NTFS filesystem mount for Linux as, e.g. /mnt/d/expofiles. Under WSL2 /mnt/d/expofiles fails, either with a permissions problem or, if you try sudo rsync.. , with a ssh authentication failure (why? Given that we explicitly sate that we want to be user expo@ ?). Ghastly anyway.
<p>All of which is really a bit ridiculous if all you want to do is to use rsync on a Windows machine to sort out some photos.
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<h3>Installing and Configuring the rest of the software you need on Windows</h3>
<p>Now return to <a href="yourlaptop.html">the data maintenance laptop</a> page to configure all the rest of the software you need.
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