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The folder "InputDevices" was just another folder that was giving me the same "not within root" error message. I had deleted it, like I've deleted "blasdk" (from the cvs output in my post). Sorry for any confusion. L. "Lionello Lunesu" <lio at lunesu.removethis.com> wrote in message news:d2bl31$an0$1 at paris.nodomain.org... > Hi. > > Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.5.01 (Travis) Build 1910 > (client/server) > cvs [server aborted]: protocol error: directory 'd:/cvsroot/module/blasdk' > not within root 'd:/cvsroot' > cvs [update aborted]: reading from server: error -1 > > First error: directory x not within root y > > I've tried different aliases for that cvsroot: d:\cvsroot, d:/cvsroot, > /cvsroot, /d//cvsroot. Doesn't seem to make a difference and all of them > work on the clients. I've removed the folder "blasdk" in the server's > sandbox and cvs update -d correctly recreates the folder without problems. > Subsequent updates continue to work. Strange. There are a couple of > folders with this behaviour.