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Peter.Prokesch at wetzer.endress.com wrote: > I have the same problem as "alkee" had with the network drive: I have the cvsnt > server running on one machine (which is not file-tape-backuped), and I need to use a > network drive for my repositories. I am not able to bring the cvs-service on this > file server machine (our sys-admin contradicts), but I could arrange to get an > additional user as Bo wrote that CVSNT works as a different user (SYSTEM). The problem is more than authentication (although the loss of NT based of access control on the repository is quite a problem). There's the issue of things like network bandwidth - you're more than doubling the network usage of running a cvs server, and more importantly locking. File locking over network shares isn't atomic, so it's possible for two processes to both think they've locked the file & try to modify the same part of the repository at the same time, risking corruption. It is possible to work like this (I've run test servers with a couple of users) but I wouldn't recommend it for more than one or two users at a time - if your needs scale beyond that you really need to run the cvs server on the same machine as the repository. Tony _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list Cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs