[cvsnt] Unix Slashes on Temp Drives

[Tony Hoyle]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:18:36 +0000, Clipper, Chris wrote:

> Using 1.11.1.3 Build 57j on Windows 2000 Server with SP3 as our cvs server
> with an nt wkstn client.
> 
> I keep getting....
> 
> !MESSAGE Valid requests operation failed: can't create temporary directory
> C:\cvstemp/cvs-serv2148
> 
> This is through Eclipse but the problem seems to be the appending of the
> unix forward slash that forces a failure to create the subdirectory.
> 
This is because the user trying to login doesn't have write access to
c:\cvstemp.  NT doesn't care about slashes.

Tony