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> From: Sanjeev, Neeraja (GE Infra, Energy)
> I have recently installed on WinXp Sp3 on a PC. I installed
> cvs on that PC.
To be clear: this is *not* the same XP SP2 PC that was working with CVSNT that you refer to below? In other words, the machine has a new installation of CVSNT and it has never worked?
> When I try to login, it fails throwing the error "cvs error:
> authorization failed and rejected access".
>
> Earlier with WinXp sp2, it was working fine. On WinXp with
> Sp3 , it is not allowing me to login.
What protocols did you enable during CVS authentication?
What protocol are you using to connect in your $CVSROOT?
Ensure you have turned off "simple" (brain-damaged) file sharing. There are probably other things to check, but I'll leave those for the experts :-).
- Peter