[cvsnt] question about host name and pserver protocol

[John Peacock]

Norman Clerman wrote:
>    Now I have a second workstation on the LAN, this one running SuSE 
> Linux 8.1. On it I set my CVSROOT environment variable to be 
> :pserver:myname at hostname//e/CVSROOT. When I enter cvs login, I see the 
> line: logging in to :pserver:myname at hostname:2401//e/CVSROOT., and I am 
> prompted for a password, which I enter. The screen then shows: Unknown 
> host hostname., and terminates. (I have successfully accessed the W2K 
> server from the Linux workstation, using the name hostname, with 
> smbclient and smbmount)

Can you ping the host from the Linux box?  My guess is no.  Add an entry to the 
/etc/hosts file for the CVS server and make sure you can ping it.

The reason you can connect using the hostname using Samba tools is that NetBios 
resolution is a completely different animal, and the smb* tools will actually do 
a broadcast looking for the host when the DNS lookup fails...

HTH

John