Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:31:35 +0200, Bernhard Mayer <mayerbernd at gmx.net> wrote: >hi, > >following situation. i have installed a cvsnt server on winxp sp1. after >install i have set cvsroot to d:/cvsrep and created my repository in >d:\cvsrep with cvs init. now i have d:/cvsrep/cvsroot and set from the >applet the repositorie to prefix d:/ and add /cvsrep as my repository. after >that i created a user with cvs passwd -a. this user ist the same as my >windows user and password is the same. after that i set the cvsroot to >:pserver:user at localhost:/cvsrep and try to login with cvs login. >and now i got an error message >cvs [login aborted]: Error reading from server localhost: -1: Unknown error > >did somebody know what i did wrong? > >thx all > > You should put your repository prefix one level deeper, like so: C:\CVSRepos\cvsrep with the prefix set to C:/CVSrepos Note that your prefix contains an ending slash and your repository name too, when these are added they become: d://cvsrep which may cause the error. And also, why use :pserver:? This is a less secure protocol and much more difficult to get working. Use :sspi: instead, it works right away without any extra settings. /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)