[cvsnt] cvsnt & Eclipse

[Avery Regier]

Hello,

I am attempting to get CVSNT to work well with the Eclipse development 
environment for my team to use.  Eclipse as a client has only three 
protocols built in: pserver, ssh, and ext.  All of our team are working 
on Windows 2000 boxes.  I had it working ok with pserver using NT 
network logins when the server was in the same domain as the clients. 
Due to some changes the network admins needed to make, the server is no 
longer in the same domain as the client, and I cannot for the life of me 
get authentication to work.

Check that:  it did work for a little while for some users.  That is, 
until they connected to a network share on the same box!  Before 
connecting to the share it works fine.  After connecting (even if you 
are no longer connected to the share) you can never get pserver to work 
again.  I see the same behaviour outside of eclipse using the normal 
cvsnt client in pserver mode.  I've tried every combination of 
configurations I can find.  I've tried using the domain\user syntax that 
the documentation says should work and it just won't.  I've given the 
SYSTEM account permissions up the wazoo.  All through this ntserver and 
sspi modes work fine, but they aren't available from pserver.

As a temporary measure so that the team could continue work I moved the 
cvs server onto a local workstation that is in the same domain. 
However, Eclipse is constantly relogging in to the cvs whenever it does 
an operation and the authentication takes a good 30 seconds on this 
workstation.  It is not a good situation.

(If anyone has any ideas to fix the problems above, I would love to hear 
them.)

So...

Considering that ntserver access is smoking fast compared with pserver 
and sspi works as well, I'd like to build an Eclipse plugin that uses 
ntserver or sspi or both and contribute it to the CVSNT project.  I've 
figured out how to do the Eclpse side of things, but the cvsnt code is 
rather confusing.  I'm not sure if the 'protocols' directory contains 
the server side protocols, the client side protocols, or both.  What I'd 
like to do is build a JNI module that bridges the existing ntserver or 
sspi client C code.

I'm also having troubles getting the cvsnt code to compile within the 
Eclipse C environment.  (I'm using MinGW.)  It seems to you have to run 
the configure script to get a good makefile, but you can't run configure 
without sh.  I could use Cygwin, but I don't want what I compile to be 
dependent on Cygwin.

If you could give me any pointers, encouragements, discouragements, or 
2x4s over the head it would be appreciated.

Regards,
Avery J. Regier