[cvsnt] Re: Newbie Problem - connecting via SSPI from TortoiseCVS

[Worth Robbins]

Thanks for the quick response.
> Which kind of XP? CVSNT will only work as a server on XP-Pro, XP-Home
> is not usable due to Microsoft limitations in the networking part.
>

It is XP Pro

>>:sspi:localhost:2401:\cvsrepo, and the module is cvstest.
>
> This is a bad choice of repository name! You should *never* use
> backslashes! Should be :sspi:localhost:2401:/cvsrepo instead!
>

It is correctly defined on the server as /cvsrepo

Interestingly, once I fixed the problem, accessing worked with either a 
backslash or forward slash.
> You don't need to specify port 2401 like this, it is the default and
> it only clutters up the connection string if you do. But you need a
> forward slash...
>
> :sspi:192.168.0.5:/cvsrepo

Yes, I have seen that this works. Thanks for the tip.
> 1) You are using XP-Home. This will fail!
> or
> 2) You have enabled Windows Firewall on the server PC.
> In this case you must open the TCP port 2401 for incoming connections
>
It was the latter, i.e. needed to open TCP port 2401. Once I did that, 
Tortoise access worked (with either backslash or forward slash :):)  ). I 
actually figured this out while I was off at the gym, but it was very 
reassuring to find your response confirming it.

Thanks again!!!

Worth