[cvsnt] Windows 2000 File Permissions and remote access proto cols

[Ian Epperson]

Does the local user "anonymous" have full file permissions on the module
(and it's parent) that you are trying to check out?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim B. [mailto:none at none.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 10:13 AM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: [cvsnt] Windows 2000 File Permissions and remote 
> access protocols
> 
> 
> Dear CVS Experts,
> 
> I'm having difficulty with remote access to my CVSNT (2.1.1) 
> repository
> under Windows 2000 Server.  I installed CVSNT as 
> Administrator. The CVS
> Service and Locking Service are running.  "Server side 
> support for ntserver
> protocol", "Impersonation", and "Use local users for pserver 
> authentication
> instead of domain users" are enabled. I've set up access for user
> "anonymous" in the passwd file and in the writers file in \CVSROOT for
> repository d:\cvsrepo\test2.
> 
> When I try to access the repository from the local machine 
> using either the
> ntserver, pserver or sspi protocols, a file permission error 
> is generated.
> (I imported a project into the repository using the :local 
> protocol without
> difficulty.)  The command and error message (for psever) are 
> as follows:
> 
> D:\cvsrepo\test2\CVSROOT>cvs 
> -d:pserver:anonymous at theta:d:\cvsrepo\test2
> login
> Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at theta:2401:d:/cvsrepo/test2
> CVS password:
> cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from theta: 
> cvs server: E
> cannot open d:/cvsrepo/test2/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied
> 
> The same error message occurs when trying to access the 
> repository from a
> remote machine using the pserver protocol.  (When I use 
> ntserver or sspi,
> the error indicates "Authentication failed.")
> 
> I've removed the repository prefix setting in the CVSNT control panel.
> I also tried setting SysAuth=no in the \CVSROOT\config file.
> The Administrator user has full access to the CVSROOT\config file, the
> cvstemp directory, etc.
> 
> I tried to follow the instructions in the CVSNT Installation 
> Tips, but have
> evidently made an egregious error.
> 
> (I haven't found any obvious equivalent to the unix/linux
> inet.d --allow-root=<directory> CVS option for the Windows 
> version. Is there
> something similar that needs to be set on Windows 2000?)
> 
> Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide. (I've 
> used CVS under
> Linux without any trouble, but I'm not as familiar as I should be with
> Windows Administration.)
> 
> Yours truly,
> Jim Bonang
> 
> 
> 
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