Not really, this is a corporate laptop. I used to rsync all my photos and private documents to my VPS. I can try to setup rsync on the Windows server, but its on the other network.

BTW, I have also tried different internet connections (wired, wireless, 3G)

To put this delicately: perhaps the corporate laptop and office server may not be the best machines to be using for storing and transferring private personal documents and photos...

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Ok, the update...
On another PC rsync os working like a charm....
The question is what's f*** up my laptop?

Yeah, I know, but I have only 1 laptop so keep my personal staff on it as well.

What about booting off a live Linux distro and storing your personal stuff on a USB drive? That way you have a reliable environment to do your own stuff in, and you don't run the risk of getting into an uncomfortable situation with your employer. Plus, you won't have to deal with Windows .

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This is a good suggestion, but the HDD has been encrypted, and I cannot see it from Linux. Basically, I used to rsync My Documents with my Linode as all corporate staff is kept on the mounted network drive.
So all I want to do for now is just debug rsync in Windows, so far no luck. Later this year, I am going to buy iMac, then rsync is not going to be a problem.

Classhelper

Thanks for your help.
I am currently testing Sun's virtualbox to install ubuntu or something.
Looks like some system dll has been messed up, despite a version any rsync.exe does not work properly on my Windows XP

an update

I have installed Virtualbox and rsync'ed all the staff onto my VPS.
Thanks for your suggestion, at least now it works

Still puzzled what happened to rsync.exe. It simply did not see any active internet connection.

Corporate laptop... Corporate internet security package?

Glad you were able to work around the problem .

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No, I have only Antivirus on my laptop, plus there is a hardware device on the network called Barracuda to filter spam/virus and there is a proxy. However, I can switch for 5-10 mins to a local wireless and get everything done on this network!