[cvsnt] Re: couldn't connect to server

Victor A. Wagner Jr. vawjr at rudbek.com
Mon Jun 14 05:17:21 BST 2004


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as I sent earlier which unfortunately went just to you, sspi did NOT work 
"out of the box" for me.
so it may be great...but it "don't work"

At Sunday 2004-06-13 14:43, Bo Berglund wrote:
>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)
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