[cvsnt] Re: couldn't connect to server

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:31:35 +0200, Bernhard Mayer
<mayerbernd at gmx.net> wrote:

>hi,
>
>following situation. i have installed a cvsnt server on winxp sp1. after
>install i have set cvsroot to d:/cvsrep and created my repository in
>d:\cvsrep with cvs init. now i have d:/cvsrep/cvsroot and set from the
>applet the repositorie to prefix d:/ and add /cvsrep as my repository. after
>that i created a user with cvs passwd -a. this user ist the same as my
>windows user and password is the same. after that i set the cvsroot to
>:pserver:user at localhost:/cvsrep and try to login with cvs login.
>and now i got an error message
>cvs [login aborted]: Error reading from server localhost: -1: Unknown error
>
>did somebody know what i did wrong?
>
>thx all
>
>

You should put your repository prefix one level deeper, like so:
C:\CVSRepos\cvsrep
with the prefix set to C:/CVSrepos

Note that your prefix contains an ending slash and your repository
name too, when these are added they become:
d://cvsrep
which may cause the error.

And also, why use :pserver:? This is a less secure protocol and much
more difficult to get working. Use :sspi: instead, it works right away
without any extra settings.


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)