On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:29 PM, James Dugger <james.dugger@gmail.com> wrote:

which direction and from what machine is it running. Are you using rsync installed on the laptop to push and/or pull data to the desktop or the other way around?

The laptop can both pull and push the data. The desktop can do neither. T issued command is:

rsync -vva --exclude=.*mozilla* --exclude=.*chromium* ~/ bmike2@192.168.0.3:/home/bmike2/;rsync -vva --exclude=.*mozilla* --exclude=.*chromium* bmike2@192.168.0.3:/home/bmike2/ ~/

Do you have a router or other gateway device port forwarding between the desktop and the laptop, any user set firwall settings in ufw you have added?

Nothing has been added to ufw and and my router is just the modem.

3- Static IP addresses? I know I set them up as static when I first set it up and with each new install they didn't change so I never bothered making sure they were static again. It is bad of me but i just assumed everything was cool. I would double check these first in /etc/network/interfaces for each system. Make sure you are using the right addresses.

So what do I do? Should I put the computers ip address in?.....

This is what I did and then I restarted the service on the desktop. But when I tried to restart it on the laptop:

bmike1@MikesLaptop:~$ sudo service ssh reload

ssh: unrecognized service

bmike1@MikesLaptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

sudo: /etc/init.d/ssh: command not found

bmike1@MikesLaptop:~$

so this means ssh is not running on the laptop? Then why does it rsync only from the laptop