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Thanks for the quick response. > Which kind of XP? CVSNT will only work as a server on XP-Pro, XP-Home > is not usable due to Microsoft limitations in the networking part. > It is XP Pro >>:sspi:localhost:2401:\cvsrepo, and the module is cvstest. > > This is a bad choice of repository name! You should *never* use > backslashes! Should be :sspi:localhost:2401:/cvsrepo instead! > It is correctly defined on the server as /cvsrepo Interestingly, once I fixed the problem, accessing worked with either a backslash or forward slash. > You don't need to specify port 2401 like this, it is the default and > it only clutters up the connection string if you do. But you need a > forward slash... > > :sspi:192.168.0.5:/cvsrepo Yes, I have seen that this works. Thanks for the tip. > 1) You are using XP-Home. This will fail! > or > 2) You have enabled Windows Firewall on the server PC. > In this case you must open the TCP port 2401 for incoming connections > It was the latter, i.e. needed to open TCP port 2401. Once I did that, Tortoise access worked (with either backslash or forward slash :):) ). I actually figured this out while I was off at the gym, but it was very reassuring to find your response confirming it. Thanks again!!! Worth