I am attempting to set up automatic two-way synchronization between my laptop and a server via ssh by running assistant on both machines. I want to have both machines be non-bare and unlocked.

On the rhel server:

    $ mkdir ~/annex
    $ cd ~/annex
    $ git init
    $ git annex init u --version=6
    $ echo This is test file 1. >testfile1.txt
    $ git annex add testfile1.txt
    $ git annex sync
    $ git remote add ml2 ssh://laptop/Users/username/annex
    $ git annex adjust --unlock
    $ git annex wanted . standard
    $ git annex group . client

On my mac laptop:

    $ cd ~/
    $ git clone ssh://server/home/username/annex
    $ cd annex
    $ git annex init ml2 --version=6
    $ git annex sync
    $ git annex adjust --unlock
    $ git annex wanted . standard
    $ git annex group . client

Everything seems to work when I manually sync. But when I run

    $ git annex assistant

on both machines, I only get one-way automatic synchronization. Changes on the laptop are immediately propagated to the server. But changes on the server do not show up on the laptop until I manually sync. What am I doing wrong?