[cvsnt] Re: Cannot RTag using 2.0.51d because lockserver only listens locally???

[user at domain.invalid]

I'm experiencing the same difficulty. We have Ant targets that tag all 
application components (libraries and source) using rtag. Usually the 
first rtag command will succeed, subsequent ones always fail with the 
error message you reported.

If, however, the module we wish to tag contains a ampersand module in 
its definition, the rtag command *always* fails.

Our workaround has been to write an ant task that detects the failure 
and does a cvs checkout followed by a tag command.


Oliver Giesen wrote:
> I recently upgraded our CVSNT server from 2.0.7 to 2.0.51d and now I've
> stumbled over something odd. Whenever I try to use rtag from a client
> machine I get:
> 
> cvs [rtag aborted]: Error communicating with lock server (send)
> 
> What's this? I thought only the server itself would try to contact the
> lockserver (and if it was the server that emitted this message it would
> have said "cvs server" at the beginning, wouldn't it?). On the server
> the configuration is set to only listen locally and the binding is
> consequently for localhost:2402 (i.e. the installation defaults).
> CVSROOT/config contains "LockServer=localhost:2402".
> 
> AFAICT all other commands work just fine. It's only rtag that spits out
> this error...
> 
> Unfortunately I do not have direct access to the server machine so if
> necessary I would first have to ask our admin to make any changes and
> he's rather stressed already today. Thus I'd like to understand as much
> as possible about this issue beforehands. Does the client end of rtag
> really try to talk to the lockserver directly? Would I have to uncheck
> the "listen locally" option or somehow edit CVSROOT/config to make it
> work again? What would be possible implications?
> 
> Oh yes, connection is via :sspi: in a closed LAN environment. CVSNT is
> running on the domain/AD server, which is a W2K Server (don't know
> about SP, but IIRC it's not SP4 yet). Client machines are W2K Pro SP4
> running CVSNT 2.0.51d.
> 
> Cheers,
>