Thanks for the info. I finally got my pserver setup working.

Here's a short list of my mistakes. Preferably it would be great if yo
cut+paste these into your readme to help others. I also have a few questions
of these.

In general I get the impression, that to make CVS more popular a setup
wizard should be created. The slightest slip in the setup and the system
just does not work. The diagnostics is not helpful.

For example, when my password file was .passwd as recommended by devguy and
not plain passwd, the system appeared to be working. An informational
diagnostics message "password file F:\SCM\CVSROOT\passwd does not exist."
would have saved a few hours.

Does the environment variable/system variable HOME=F:\SCM have any effect? I
removed it and CVS works.

My advice to anybody who wants to setup:

- The missing dll's for release 1.11.1.3 can be found from
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~nagendra/projects/StreamAuth/download/golle.zip
The next release fixes these.

I'm installing cvs repository to F:\SCM, use your own path.

- I set the RepositoryPrefix to an empty string. Anything else and I could
not get CVS to work. Maybe some examples of it's usage would help. By the
way, you cannot do it from the gui, use regedit.

- Since prefix is empty, Repository0=F:\SCM

I use the NT path, not unix path in my client variable
CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:F:\SCM

- The password file for me is F:\SCM\CVSROOT\passwd and not .passwd
The information that's told in the devguy readme is outdated and CVSROOT
directory does indeed mean F:\SCM\CVSROOT, not F:\SCM

- The file F:\SCM\CVSROOT\config must have line
SystemAuth=no
without the comment character #. Again, the devguy comment "Change the line
with #SystemAuth=no to SystemAuth=yes if you want to use domain passwords "
is quite confusing. My first try #SystemAuth=no didn't quite have the
intended meaning.

- to use the correct cvs.exe from the cvsnt distribution, Select WinCVS menu
"Admin/Preferences" Tab "WinCVS" checkbox "Alternate CVS" and set the file
path.

Greetings, Kari

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Tony Hoyle
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cvsnt] No such repository error


On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 01:33:16 +0000 (UTC), "Kari Hoijarvi"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>"RepositoryPrefix"="F:\\SCM"
>"Repository0"="F:\\SCM"
>
These two entries contradict each other.  If you have them both
your repository is in F:\SCM\F:\SCM, which probably isn't what you
want.

Tony

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