[cvsnt] Re: Cannot access CVSNT repository at all

[Bo Berglund]

Yo can perfectly well name a repository anything you like, but for
simplicity it is recommended to use /<identifier>.
Since <identifier> does not need any connection whatever to the
actual physical file system path of the repository you are completely
free to name it anything you like.
I have a test repository which resides at F:\CVSREPOS\Bosse and I have
defined *two* repositories in CVSNT which both point to this single
location but are named /Bosse and /Korvkiosk respectively.
This works perfectly well, I can check out code from either one and
work with it as I like.

One notice: *DON'T* put an ending / in the name of a repository,
this will break a number of clients and make things difficult.

PROTOCOLS
----------
Please be aware that when you specify :local: then you are telling your
*client* program to go directly to the repository files and dig into
them, thereby completely bypassing the CVSNT server!
And since the naming scheme mentioned above is a configuration of the
server itself, you cannot use these names for the local access.
So you need to specify a physical path.

Concerning :pserver: access, it is more complex than :sspi:
I think that you should start out using :sspi: on the remote client.
When you got that working (first test it from the server PC itself)
then you can add the pserver users with the cvs passwd command (look
up the syntax for this in the helpfile) and set their cvs passwords.
If the cvs users do not exist as users on the server machine then you
must also alias these users to an existing account using the cvs passwd
command.
Only after all of this groundwork has been done are you going to be able
to use the :pserver: protocol to connect.

Notice the correct syntax for this:
  :pserver:user at server:/repositoryname
You have to specify the user and the user must exist as a login in the
passwd file and be aliased to an existing user if it is not a valid user
account on the server.


/bo

-----Original Message-----
From: Sander van der Wal [mailto:svdwal at mBrainSoftware.com]
Sent: den 27 maj 2005 16:03
To: Bo Berglund
Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Re: Cannot access CVSNT repository at all


Ok, thanks, I appreciate it you taking the time.

Doing the flash demo I already have  a question: the demo mentions it is
not a good idea to publis the full parthname. My repository is at
e:\CVS\Reposititory. it's unix/external/whatever name us then
/CVS/Repository. The demo recommends calling it /Repository? Why is
this? Such info is never in the manual. 

Then locally I can now check-in, using the :local: protocol. But from
the client laptop using the :pserver: protocol, I cannot. And I get this
error

cvs.exe [import aborted]: Error reading from server relais: -1: Unknown
error

I don't understand what's wrong here. And the problem is that the
helptexts and manuals don't say what's wrong here, or how I can check
the setup. 

Sander van der Wal
www.mBrainSoftware.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bo Berglund [mailto:Bo.Berglund at system3r.se] 
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 2:11 PM
To: Sander van der Wal; cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Re: Cannot access CVSNT repository at all


Annoying?
There is tons of information out there...
Here is one link that could get you started:
http://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/newfaq.htm#startlinks

And especially for you maybe this one:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10072&package_id=
14571&release_id=302146
Its an animated first-time introduction on how to use CVS and WinCvs
together...

/Bo

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Sander van der Wal
Sent: den 27 maj 2005 13:38
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: [cvsnt] Re: Cannot access CVSNT repository at all



"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> schreef in bericht 
news:d76uon$ojf$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> Sander van der Wal wrote:
>>
>> cvs.exe [add aborted]: cannot open CVS/Repository: Permission denied
>>
>> Error, CVS operation failed
>
> That sounds more like your sandbox rather than the repository.

I am just trying to checkin a file that's on e:\.

I am now using ComponentSoftware RCS, but I want to move to CVS because
of 
Eclipse.

How do I find out whether the setup is working or not? I am not
interested 
in reading about working with CVS stuff as a programmer, I want to know
the 
things that the manual says I should ask my system administrator or the
cvs 
administrator. That's pointless in my case, I am sitting at home with
two 
pc's in some trivial windows network, with a win2k pc and a winxp
laptop. 
Docs for setting up such a system are simply not there, or they talk
about 
unix. But I got CVSNT because it runs on win2k. and the compiled heptext
of 
cvsnt also talks in unix terms. what's the point of cvsnt then.

Sorry, but this lack of documentation is very annoying.

-- 
Sander van der Wal
www.mBrainSoftware.com 


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