diff --git a/BUILD/mdbci/create_remote_repo.sh b/BUILD/mdbci/create_remote_repo.sh
index 2de76e80f..1d9102cd7 100755
--- a/BUILD/mdbci/create_remote_repo.sh
+++ b/BUILD/mdbci/create_remote_repo.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ ssh $sshopt "key=\`ls ~/gpg_keys/*.public -1\` ; gpg --import \$key"
 ssh $sshopt "key=\`ls ~/gpg_keys/*.private -1\` ; gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import \$key"
 
 echo "executing create_repo.sh on VM"
-ssh $sshopt "export platform=$platform; export platform_version=$platform_version; $work_dir/BUILD/mdbci/create_repo.sh dest/ src/"
+ssh $sshopt "export platform=$platform; export platform_version=$platform_version; ./$work_dir/BUILD/mdbci/create_repo.sh dest/ src/"
 if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
 	echo "Repo creation failed!"
 	exit 1
diff --git a/BUILD/mdbci/remote_build.sh b/BUILD/mdbci/remote_build.sh
index a91bdbe0b..be02521f2 100755
--- a/BUILD/mdbci/remote_build.sh
+++ b/BUILD/mdbci/remote_build.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ ssh $sshopt "sudo rm -rf $work_dir"
 echo "copying stuff to $image machine"
 ssh $sshopt "mkdir -p $work_dir"
 
-rsync -avz  --progress --delete -e "ssh $scpopt" ${script_dir}/../../../MaxScale/* $sshuser@$IP:$work_dir/ 
+rsync -avz  --progress --delete -e "ssh $scpopt" ${script_dir}/../../* $sshuser@$IP:./$work_dir/ 
 if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
   echo "Error copying stuff to $box machine"
   exit 2