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Bo Berglund wrote: > I also think that a networking problem is at large here, but I can't > figure out what.... > It looks strange that some commands ooperate OK (cvs log or cvs status > on a single file for example) whereas others do not (like the cvs > status -v file1 file2 type). Or maybe some edge condition involving IO (i.e. networking and disk IO). > Anyways the virtual machine has a VMWare virtual network adapter and > the IT person today tried to clean out all of the drivers for now > nonexisting hardware. But so far it has not helped. > > The VMWare network adapter is connected to a virtual network switch on > the server and the output of that is in turn connected to the physical > network adapter on the server PC. According to the IT person the > virtual switch is a beast to configure and whatever they do will > affect all servers sunning on the same hardware PC, so they are > reluctant to change the defaults.... Just depends how its been set up... probably best that each virtual server has its own manually specified IP address; don't share the physical host's IP address across the virtual hosts. -- David Somers typographer/programmer/whatever