[cvsnt] Re: Connection reset (server not responsive)...

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:03:00 -0800, Matthew <cvsnt_001 at webfuture.com>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I seem to be having trouble connecting to my CVSNT server (running on 
>the same machine). I originally had this trouble with version 
>cvsnt-2.5.02.2088 and am still having it with cvsnt-2.5.03.2151.
>
>When I run the latter installation on another machine I am able to 
>telnet to 127.0.0.1 2401 and upon typing something in, get the standard 
>response...
>
>    cvs [server aborted]: bad auth protocol start: dsdsd
>
>...however when I try and telnet to port 2401 on the local machine, as 
>soon as I type something the session ends without any response.
>
>When I try writing a Java client to open a socket to 2401 (again all 
>running on the local machine), I get the following...
>
>    java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
>
>...again no response is provided by the server.
>
>When running the server in debug mode (using cvsservice -test), I get 
>the following output on the server side...
>
>    CVSNT initialised successfully
>    046b7f64: Cvsnt process started
>    046b7fb2: Cvsnt process terminated
>
>To make sure port 2401 was available to connections (i.e. no firewall 
>problems), I wrote a Java server listening on 2401 and tried to connect 
>to it. This worked fine.
>I am not trying to access a CVS repository on a networked drive 
>(although it is shared).
>
>If someone any ideas as to the following, I would love to hear from them...
>
>1. Any insight as to what is going on (or if not help with one of the 
>questions below)...
>2. Where CVSNT stores its configuration settings (I have looked in the 
>registry, the CVSNT install directory and the CVS repository directories 
>and can find nothing).
You could not have looked very carefully:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CVS\Pserver



/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)