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I am trying to run rsync command to get files from my friend's pc to mine. I run following command-

rsync -avz /tftpboot/ [email protected]::/tftpboot/

I receive following result-

ERROR: The remote path must start with a module name not a / rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1635) [sender=3.1.1]

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  • Are you trying to connect to the remote computer (192.168.18.2) over ssh, or over the native rsync protocol?
    – Gordon Davisson
    Jul 19, 2019 at 0:05

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Please check /etc/rsyncd.conf file. The rsync command will require module_name as prefix to the path like-

rsync -avz /tftpboot/ [email protected]::module_name/tftpboot/

The /etc/rsyncd.conf file contains module_name in square brackets like one mentioned below:

rsyncd.conf

[Module_Name]
auth users =
path = /
read only = no
uid = nobody
gid = nobody
use chroot = true
uid = root
transfer logging = true

For more details refer to following link- https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html

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rsync -avz /tftpboot/ [email protected]::/tftpboot/

You can remove the double comma and turn it into:

rsync -avz /tftpboot/ [email protected]:/tftpboot/

This will probably make it work but might not be exactly what you're after. See comment by https://superuser.com/users/129262/mgutt.

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    The two colons have a special meaning: Use rsync daemon instead of SSH. So your answer is sadly wrong.
    – mgutt
    Jul 28, 2022 at 8:40
  • Yes and no. In my case I didn't want to use the rsync daemon, I just wanted to get the files from the remote server → thus pragmatically speaking it was a working solution.
    – Ovi Trif
    Aug 1, 2022 at 14:32

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