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Quoting Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org>: > capaverde at 3ia.com.br wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm having some troubles using CVSNT 2.0.58, that I just installed. > > If I leave the new option, "Run as user" with the default value, > > i.e. "(client user)", everything works fine. > > If I select a local user, cvs client complains that the user doesn't > > exists (I had selected it from the drop down list found in the CVS's > > control panel applet and I'm sure, it's there). > > > > D:\Arquiv~1\GNU\WinCvs~1.3\Cvsnt>cvs95 -d :sspi:n992:/cvsroot ls > > Fatal error, aborting. > > CVS95 [ls aborted]: N992\cvs999: no such user > > The user is unknown to the system... cvs is just reporting the error > that comes back. It sounds like your domain is setup strangely - it's > letting users who aren't a member of the domain connect via sspi or > something... that's way beyond anything I can help with (my expertise in > that stops at disabling simple file sharing and disabling guest). The n992\cvs999 do exists: C:\Documents and Settings\cvs999>whoami n992\cvs999 > > > If I select a domain user (my server is a win2003 server machine attached > > to our enterprise network) the complaint is that the repository doesn't > > exists (remember, I acessed it a few minutes ago when the "Run as user" > > option was "(client user)"). > > > > D:\Arquiv~1\GNU\WinCvs~1.3\Cvsnt>cvs95 -d :sspi:n992:/cvsroot ls > > cvs [server aborted]: Repository directory E:/cvsroot does not exist: > Permission > > denied > > Is E: a network drive? You can't put repositories on network drives - > it'll fail in various ways and isn't supported. Drive E: is a local partition. C: is system only. > > > [footnote: as our network have more than 2000 users, I needed to change > > the user regedit'ing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CVS\Pserver; > > the drop down list just shown the local users and a few domain ones] > > The list is every active user known to the system - if they aren't being > shown then attempting to logon as them probably isn't going to work. As I told, we have more than 2000 users logging in every day. It seems to me that the listing is limited to 115 entries. > > > So, I have two questions: > > 1. should the "run as" user be member of local administrators? > > Definately not - Use a nonpriviliged guest user (I probably shouldn't > show administrators in the list at all). > > > 2. can't I use a local user for "run as"? > > Yes, this works fine. > > Tony > Capaverde