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You have not set:

PasswordAuthentication yes


Maybe this is the problem. In my tests with a a local Ubuntu-hosted OpenSSH server, versioning works fine. Zenju, 16 Nov 2017, 14:09

Same problem still exists:
LIBSSH2_ERROR_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED: Authentication failed (username/password) [libssh2_userauth_password]

You have not set:

PasswordAuthentication yes


Maybe this is the problem. In my tests with a a local Ubuntu-hosted OpenSSH server, versioning works fine. Zenju, 16 Nov 2017, 14:09

I have set PasswordAuthentication yes, and have turned Versioning back on. Will test.

When an SFTP error occurs, FFS may consider the session faulty and try to establish a new connection for the next request. This is when LIBSSH2_ERROR_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED occurs. This doesn't make much sense, unless maybe you have a limit on the number of parallel SFTP sessions allowed?


I don ...

Also here's a beta version which *might* give a better/different error message:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/kkavyz2x3zdn70a/FreeFileSync_9.6_%5BBeta%5D_Windows_Setup.exe


It's giving a different error:

07:25:24 Error Unable to connect to "192.168.1.17".
LIBSSH2_ERROR_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED ...

Do you have steps that reproduce this issue? (I'm not able to trigger it in my tests)


Change a file, run sync. That file will be unable to move the original file to the version folder, so the new version is not copied across.

It's probably due to whatever process is being called in sftp does ...

There is probably some intermediate folder missing somewhere. But FFS should create those automatically. Are you able to reproduce the issue or have steps to reproduce this in general, or have a remote machine for testing that shows this error?


It does it for any or all files when trying to ...

This used to work, so not sure what the issue is. But whenever i get a new version of a file, and I have versioning turned on, I'm getting this error now:

14:35:27 Error Cannot move file
"sftp://192.168.1.17/backups/Steve/DEVO/Data/D/Documents/Visual Studio 2015/Settings/CurrentSettings ...