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I may be wrong, but I think you are trying the method where you are trying to connect to a Windows (or Samba) share. If that is the case, you should mount the remote share on your local filesystem first. Then just specify the location on your local filesystem where the remote filesystem is mounted.
rsync uses ssh by default when you use the command the way you have. If you want to not have the overhead of ssh (of which it really is not that bad), you will need to enable the rsh service (i.e. telnet) and make sure it is not accessible from the outside. Then you can use this
Code:
-e, --rsh=COMMAND
in your command to tell it to use whatever rsh service you have enabled.
Make sure to read up on the rsync command to see if you need anything else to go with that
As far as I know,
rsync … remotehost:/path will connect to the remote sshd, whereas
rsync … remotehost::/path will connect to the remote rsyncd (which has to run, of course…).
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